가을 겨울을 위한 버버리브랜드 '이케아 블랭킷' Can you tell an £895 Burberry cape from a £25 Ikea blanket VIDEO
Can you tell an £895 Burberry cape from a £25 Ikea blanket?
Cara Delevigne and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley have both modelled blanket capes for Burberry but are they acceptable outerwear?
The blanket is having a moment, despite the potential for looking like you are recovering from illness or have slept on the street
Burberry's £900 cashmere and wool cape were the toast of their autumn/winter show
They can slide off, you can’t run in them, and you have to drink coffee extremely carefully
By Catherine Ostler for the Daily Mail
There are obvious difficulties in wearing a blanket in the street. For example, a few days ago I met a very fashionable person wrapped in one in the country, and was not alone in assuming she was recuperating from something nasty.
Or, at worst, people might think you’d slept in a doorway and got up to stretch your legs.
However, absurd as it sounds, the blanket (or poncho, drape, cape, wrap, maxi scarf or whatever you want to call it) is having a moment. Burberry’s, thick, 15 per cent cashmere, 85 per cent wool blankets in yellow, blue and red — and costing nearly £900 — were the toast of their autumn/winter show this year, and looked rather fetching (not a hard task, admittedly) on Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Cara Delevingne. To someone like me who loves their bed and hates getting out of it, wandering around draped in a blanket is a good halfway house.
There are drawbacks, however: with no toggles anywhere, they can slide off; you can’t run in them, and you have to drink coffee extremely carefully, in case your blanket slips off, taking your mug with it.
But can they really be an acceptable form of outerwear?
And as they are after all only blankets, would anyone actually be able to tell the difference between this autumn’s designer creations and a £25 one from Ikea?
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