The Well-Tempered Clavicle

The New York Times calls them "trapeze dresses" and says that they're designed to show off a woman's clavicles, of all things. But come on. A lot of these potato-sack dresses don't reveal the collarbone. In fact, the best of them don't and aren't even designed with that in mind. Sure, there are counterexamples—hot!—but these dresses, as a family, don't highlight the neck any more than others.

Also, it's not as if the women modeling these dresses got skinnier for this season. Rail thin may be in, but then rail thin always has been, right? so you can't draw decent conclusions about what women are doing with their bodies from the runways. Highlighting the clavicle, I dunno. But in any case, it's gratifying to know that the fashionista at the Times agrees with me, contra my commenters.