Sequins by day: yesterday a mistake, today cool?

Sequins by day? A truly avant-garde time. Indeed, more: unforgivable style error, contravention of etiquette, banana peel full slide.

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Yes, because in the past, among the rules fashion not to be transgressed, there was also the one that it wasn’t convenient to wear sequins, glitter and sequins before sunset. As if the day wasn’t made for sparking fashion.

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Consider yourself a not too distant time, therefore, the exclusive prerogative of nightlifeto show off on short dresses or elegant tops, for several seasons the sequins show themselves under the sunlightin fun, comfortable and chic outfits.

To tell the story, although many think that the latest generation designers were the first to clear the flashes away from night events by covering even bomber jackets and tracksuits with a sporty DNA in sequins, the merit of having brought them into the light of the sun, making them more high beam, even goes to Joan Crawford.

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In an iconic portrait from the 1930s she appears in a dress with a skirt two palms above the ankle and a cape, contrasting black gloves, shoes and beret, all in sequins and lamé while she seems more ready to go for a drive than to tread a gala red carpet.

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In short, Joan Crawford aside, if in the last century it was certainly not considered appropriate to go shopping with the lights on, today we go to the supermarket in sequins and how.

Just as Anne Hathaway suggests in an episode of the Amazon Prime TV series modern love: in the role of Lexie, a girl suffering from bipolarity who, when in moments of euphoria, dresses in sequins, wears a bling bling sweater with a pleated maxi skirt and a pink coat and thus wanders among shelves and trolleys. What’s cooler?

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In short, today the sequins are no longer relegated to the disco or parties, but they can be worn on a daily basis all day long like any other fabric, at any age, with nonchalance and a pinch of irony.

And so in 2023 more and more celebs are spotted with a brilliant garment or even total look by day: if in New York Sophie Turner glitters in green on a walk with a friend and Sophia Ritchie shows how to wear a frilly long dress even at noon by combining it with boyfriend jeans, in Italy Elena Barolo dazzles with a blazer covered with metal discs while in the company of her dog and in Capri Selena Gomez last year she popped into the sun in a bright mini jumpsuit.

And don’t think that sequins are for women during the day, because men like to shine too.

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After all, they say that the first to have them sewn on their clothes was one of them. In fact, it seems that they were invented for Tutankhamun, or at least, the oldest clothes that have come down to us with sequins found sewn on his funeral clothing are his. They certainly immediately represented a symbol of luxury.

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And who today, especially after the dark years of the pandemic, doesn’t want to show these disks that reflect light 24 hours a day? therefore a status symbol? This is the hour of revenge happiness: to be cool we put more sequins in our wardrobes to wear at any time of the day.

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