Seinfeld's Elaine as a Fashion Icon? Hmpf.

[NyMag] A certain sect of the city's most fashion-conscious women, those who try the hardest to look the trendiest with either spectacular success or laughable failure, look like Elaine from Seinfeld, according to the Times. You know the girls, who wear floral prairie dresses with Peter Pan collars under denim vests with white ankle socks and lace-up shoes. Or maybe they do blazers with pillowy shoulders and flowing, below-the-knee skirts. Essentially, these are the chicks who try to copy Chloë Sevigny. Anne Slowey from Elle explains:

“You see someone like Chloë Sevigny wearing it, and you’re like, ‘Oh wait, I want to do that, too.’ The Chloë Sevigny version is shorter and cuter. It’s a flirtier, cleaned-up version, but it is derivative. Who would ever think Elaine from ‘Seinfeld’ would be a style

icon?"

The irony of this latest piece from the Cut it that I've been seeing this in Austin for some time now and I just couldn't put my finger on it. This article does a pretty legit job. It's that I'm-not-trying-too-hard to be sexy that only my favorite hipsters can pull off. The fact that so few are being successful at embodying Chloe's style and are therefore looking like Elaine is gold.