Free People has been a familiar face here on Catalog Police. They’re back for this week’s installment — but there’s good news. This catalog lacked many of the over-the-top boho sexpot looks I’ve complained about in past installments. This month’s catalog included plenty of dreamy dresses and snuggly sweaters.
That said, I had some major beef with a few of the styling choices and pricing. Let’s dig a little deeper.
A chainmail halter top makes no sense unless you’re being paid millions of dollars to star in American Hustle 2. But the real tragedy? The $698 price tag. (That is not a typo.)
It’s times like these when I cry into my keyboard and start questioning the meaning of fabric. Why exactly does this “dress” exist? If this is your idea of formalwear, save yourself the $290 and just buy yourself a tube of body paint.
This top is a bad joke. A potato sack and a sweater walk into a bar, have too many margaritas and 9 months later, we’re expected to pay $398 for its offspring.
What a missed opportunity — all because Free People is so stingy with fabric. (It’s a common retail shortcut to make dresses shorter and strapless to save money in production costs — but it has the unfortunate side effect of making everything look… cheap.) This dress would have been lovely — if it lost the cupcake bust trimmings, had straps and reached the knee. Basically, if it was a completely different dress.
A living nightmare. Pretty sure you’d hallucinate this dress after ODing on cotton candy and repeatedly viewing of Paris Hilton’s reality series, The Simple Life.