Scandinavian galoshes that fit over your regular shoes are being hailed as the Croc alternative.

The Best Links:

1. Fancy Wellies You Can Carry Around in Your Bag
2. Those Nifty Norwegians Have Also Designed a Nifty Umbrella for Torrential Downpours
3. See Styles on the Official SWIMS Site
4. Wet Weather Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Looking Ridiculous

Dressing in drab prisoners’ garb (inspired by and produced by) is your ticket into Berlin’s fashionable in-crowd.

The Best Links:

1. Prison is cool again: And it’s not Lindsay’s fault this time
2. Berlin Prisoners Open Online Fashion Boutique
3. Prison Wear Store Opens in Berlin
4. Entrepreneurial Berlin Prisoners Are Encouraged to “Make It Work”
5. In Russia, Clothing Factory Doubles as a Maximum Security Jail
6. The Wax Figure of Lindsay Lohan Decked Out in Black and White Stripes
7. Victoria Beckham Opts for Prison Chic at Fashion Shows
8. Convict Chic: the Latest Trend in Berlin Fashion
9. Clothes Produced, Designed and Inspired by Prisoners Now Hip in Berlin

Created by bodybuilders in the ’80s and having reached a sales peak of $30 million, the stretchy, zebra-print pants are groomed for a comeback.

The Best Links:

1. Video: Zubaz Is Serious News
2. You Will Look Terrible in Zubaz
3. Everything You Ever Need To Know About Zubaz
4. First the Unitard, Now This?
5. The Original Zubaz Pants: Style, Attitude and Comfort (Buy Now!)
6. Zubaz Pants Are Back In All Their Zebra Striped Glory

The male model of today is “an urchin, a wraith or an underfed runt.”

The Best Links:

1. Male Anorexia, And Where You Can Get Help
2. One Skinny-Ass Model
3. Who Says This is an Attractive Look?
4. Men Jump on the Thin Bandwagon
5. Thin Dudes Are In, People

Who says skirts on men can’t be practical?

The Best Links:

1. Mockumercials - Win $2500 in Utilikilts For Your Best Homemade Kilt Ad
2. Utilikilt Has A Pretty Funny License Agreement
3. Flickr Group For Utilikilt Fans
4. It Ain’t No Skirt, Ye Precious Thing!
5. Freedom from the Tyranny of Trousers!
6. These Here Utilikilts Are American-Made

The most fashionable, sexy cult leaders are all wearing black turtlenecks this season.

The Best Links:

1. Turtleneck Wearing Tom Cruise Promoting His Cult (video)
2. Young Cult Leader Mark Zuckerberg Would Be Even More Powerful if He Zipped Up This Fleece Top to Form a Turtleneck
3. Jerry Yang Tries to Become Cult Leader by Wearing Turtleneck, Fails
4. Cult Leader Steve Jobs On Official Apple-Cult Website
5. The Leader of “WGA” Actors’ Cult Wears Black Turtleneck (parody video)

The recent Dress Up Against AIDS fashion show featured couture condom creations from over 30 designers.

The Best Links:

1. The Exhibition Is Running until March 11 at UCLA’s Fowler Museum
2. Condoms Go Haute Couture
3. Photos from the Condom Fashion Show
4. A Multi-Colored Condom Gown for Safe Sex Cinderellas
5. H&M Launches Designers against AIDS, Collection to Be In Stores by February 2008
6. Students Create Outfits Made out of Condoms to Promote Aids Awareness

The Japanese “injured doll” fashion fetish.

The Best Links:

1. Fake Injury Cosplay Popular Among Geek Girls
2. Kegadoru: Injured Idol Fetish
3. Latest Akihabara Geek Fetish? One-eyed Virginal Maid Mummies
4. Tokyo’s Recent Fetish-fashion
5. Ouch: Faking It To Make It

Ashley Olsen, Kate Bosworth, and Lindsay Lohan are all dressing like lumberjacks this fall.

The Best Links:

1. Bai Ling certainly lumbers well.
2. “Plaid Couture” at the Fall 2007 New York Fashion Week shows.
3. Fasshonaburu’s article on plaid / tartan for Fall 2007
4. Discussion: Will you be wearing buffalo plaid this fall?
5. Delia’s Is Selling a Buffalo Plaid Bag
6. “It’s also for wrestlers, rock stars, gangsters, farmers, cold people and me”
7. How to Dress like a Lumberjack
8. Lindsay Lohan Wearing an Oversized Lumberjack Plaid Cardigan…as a Dress?
9. Ashley Olsen, Queen of Plaid
10. WhoWhatWearDaily’s Spread on Plaid Outerwear

We wonder aloud, will the Chanel ankle wallet translate into an everyday fashion accessory?

The Best Links:

1. I’d rather wear these instead of Shants
2. Dubbed “The Rehab Bag”
3. Chanel’s Ankle Monitering Accessories Makes Rehab a lot Cuter
4. Karl inspired by young Hollywood train wrecks for Chanel Spring/Summer 2008
5. Poll: Would You Wear a Chanel Ankle Wallet? (95% say no)
6. If Chanel says it’s chic, it must be
7. Chanel Inspired by Criminally-Minded Celeb Clients
8. Ankle purses appear to be some sort of tribute to the SCRAM anklet

Kids make the best mullet models.

The Best Links:

1. Britney Spears’ Kids Have Mullets
2. ‘It definitely raises ethical issues.”
3. Random Kid Mullet
4. Gallery Of Child Mullets
5. Kindergarten Mullet
6. A Boy, His Balloon & His Mullet
7. “We got started early.”

The latest in luxury pet products and fashion will be showcased this weekend at NYC’s Pet Fashion Week.

The Best Links:

1. Watch Barney Frank Avoid Outing Larry Craig!
2. Pet Fashion Week In New York
3. Cute Dogs Take Over Chelsea
4. ELLE picks the very best items for your pampered pooch.
5. There She Is, Your Overdressed Pet
6. Luxury Pet Goods are a $41 Billion Industry
7. A Preview of Some of the Cute Outfits You’ll Be Seeing
8. Festivities include a trade show, a runway show, symposiums, an art show, and of course PARTIES
9. Dog Wigs - Featured on BuzzFeed
10. Pet Craze Sweeps Affluent Society
11. Fashion Trends for Pets?
12. A Convention of sorts for Luxury Pet Vendors
13. Canine Fashion Industry Brings you the $200,000 Dog Collar

In London, women are wearing shoes so tall and high-waisted jeans so tight, they can barely walk.

The Best Links:

1. A Guy Discusses the Pains of Breaking In Raw Denim Jeans
2. Olsen Twin Wears Footbinding Shoes
3. Can You Relate: Hobbled by Hussein Chalayan, Burdened by Balenciaga
4. Posh Dresses Up for Mundane Activities Like Shopping and Meeting with Real Estate Agents
5. What’s the Craziest Thing You’ve Ever Done for Fashion?

New York Times profiles a business venture involving novelty briefs .

The Best Links:

1. Booty-Hugging Briefs “Not a Gay Thing”
2. Get Some Zany Briefs at 10 Percent (E-Commerce)
3. “‘Styles’ Serves Up A Big Bowl Of Spotted Dick”
4. Not Gay, Just Going Underwear Shopping at American Apparel
5. Man Goes Underwear Shopping, Discovers New Concepts in Briefdom
6. The Choices in Men’s Underwear Stink
7. Big Chain Stores Now Creating Brightly Colored Boxer Briefs

Models for Christ brings good-looking believers together to talk about the perils of the industry.

The Best Links:

1. ‘Models For Christ’: The Name Alone Is Just So Damn Inspiring - Jezebel
2. Models Pray to Baby Jesus to Keep Them Skinny
3. These Models Bring the Hotness
4. Christian Fashion, WTF?
5. Bringing Jesus to Fashion

When will the jumpsuit stop being funny and start being fashionable?

The Best Links:

1. Naomi Brings Back the Jumpsuit
2. Maggie Gyllenhaal Fugs it up in a Gray Jumpsuit
3. Super-Cute Jumpsuits from Up-And-Coming Designer Fremont
4. Kanye’s Vulgar Stunts in White Jumpsuit Makes Knievel Look Bad
5. People in Jumpsuits at Some Nike Party (Scroll Down)
6. Channeling Disco Era in My First Jumpsuit
7. Tokyo Street Fashion: “My top and pants are connected…It’s like a jumpsuit!”
8. Runways Predict Shorty Jumpsuits to Be Big for Spring
9. Bulgarian Winter Fashion - AMAZING NINJA SUITS!