It is back-to-school season. Football starts this weekend. The temperature will soon start to drop. All of that can only mean one thing: fall fashion ad campaigns. For whatever reason, I read several men’s magazine. I subscribe to enough of them, in fact that Gay Men’s Health, took notice and has been hitting me up for donations over the last 6 months. Anyway, when the fall fashion ads start to roll out, I always take notice. It’s hard not to, since you have to page through them for half of the magazine, before you can even get to the first article. Some of them are very cool, almost inspiring. Others, well… aren’t. Normally I just roll my eyes and turn the page, when I come across the latter. But this year, I have decided to showcase a few of the most ridiculous fall fashion ads that I have come across, so far this season. Today, I’m posting a couple of examples from a Dolce ad. 
They always seem to have a pretty good mix of Gothic and Collonial style in their composition. But I’m just going to leave that aspect of it alone. What I WILL comment on, are the grotesquely massive fur ear-flap hats worn in the ads. Ok, these hats were disgusting last year. The only people that could pull off the look, were women over 6′ tall (without heels), that were going for that Siberian, yet Amazonian flavor. Even then, it was only accomplished with marginal success. Lets face it, the hats are huge, ridiculous looking and have real fur (probably). So what does Dolce decide to do, make them even bigger and more ridiculous. The one dude’s earflaps are wider than his freaking shoulders. I took 9 foxes to make that hat. I can see by the picture that you live on George Washington’s estate and everything, but 9 foxes for one hat? More to come.
Fall Fashion
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