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Article: Real shopping: Style Police - Nights in black leather The bike chick look is back again. But it's much too glam to go riding in, says JAMES SHERWOOD
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 10, 1999
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Some mornings you wake up and think, "Bugger Boho. I don't want to
float around in a peasant gypsy dress and a headscarf." Style Police
is sure that's what went through Ffion Hague's mind when dressing for
the first day of the Tory Party conference in Blackpool last week.
You've got to give it up for the girl because she knows biker chic is
the Boho backlash. However, Ffion's flat black biker boots are a
lesson to us all. Do it all together or not at all. Biker chicks
don't wear puce knee-length skirt suits; particularly when they have
calves like Barry Sheen.
The cool biker chick doesn't mix her metaphors. If she's
contemplating a night in black leather that means zip-front crop
jacket, ...