Of course, a stripy polo in dress form will forever be tied with Margot Tenenbaum in The Royal Tenenbaums. How many posts exist, dedicated to the lone pairing of said polo dress with fur coat and hair barrette and those sad kohl-lined eyes? A telling sign would be that a quick Google search yields not just images of Gwyneth Paltrow in the film but also countless illustrations and Halloween costume efforts to portray Margot…
On to more recent films, the polo shirt also picked up nuances of the spritely and notably adorable wardrobe of the character Midori in the Anh Hung Tran film adapation of the Haruki Murakami novel Norwegian Wood, portrayed by model/actress Kiko Mizuhara. Barrettes, stripy shirts, primary colours and a blend of preppy and mod-ish ensembles flood Midori's wardrobe, which plays a part consecrating Midori as the upbeat and teasing distraction for the male protagonist Watanabe.
As a further bit of inspirational eye-candy, Kiko Misuhara also features as AnotherMag's January digital cover styled by Katie Shillingford wearing Hussein Chalayan's S/S 11 Sakoku collection, photographed fittingly by Lina Scheynius…
I'm unlikely to do 70s poppy/preppy as well as Midori in the film does but I do love picking out the hues of the stripes in the polo shirt to place into a three-skirted ensemble. Yes, my version of preppy involves wearing three skirts all at once… go figure…
(Uniqlo striped polo shirt, As Know As De Base green pocketed wrap skirt, Anna Heylen blue pleated cape worn as a half-skirt, Sophia Kokosalaki white pleated miniskirt underneath, Dolce & Gabbana Animalier sunglasses, Peter Jensen hiking wedges from Goodhood)
