# Loving and Loathing: 15/09/11
- Source: The Mancunion (https://staging.mancunion.com/fashion-beauty/loving-and-loathing-150911)
- By: Claudia Canavan
- Published: 2011-09-14T23:00:00.000Z
- Section: Fashion & Beauty
**What we're loving and loathing in fashion this week.**

**Loving**

**American Apparel knit pencil skirts (£42, American Apparel)**

New for A/W, our favourite sweat shop free clothing destination has produced these fabulously flattering knitted pencil skirts in an array of hues. Perfect with a pair of opaque tights and ankle boots, or bare legs and heels for day to night transitioning.

**Loathing**

**Ready attached braces**

A recent traipse around Topman and H&M revealed a worrying plethora of trousers with ready affixed braces, usually in an offensively bright colour. Unless you are Chuck Bass and pull off the dapper/dandy look with aplomb, I beg you to leave these sad creations to be resigned to the sale rail, where they belong.