So I rarely ever condemn things as 'fashion don'ts (the phrase itself perplexes my minute brain....), but unfortunately, after a terrifying night of seeing The Orphanage [1] (El Orfanato), directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, produced by Guillermo del Toro (of Pan's Labryinth [2] fame... a must-see!), I'm going to have to ban grey/chambray smock dresses with peter pan collars.  Without giving anything away, the film involves dolls, creepy bespecled old ladies, dead children and an orphanage uniform that could have been viewed as cute at first but by the end gives you jitters.  It was quite corny/amusing how the whole audience I was watching it with jumped/shrieked at all the right moments and that hasn't happened to me in a while.

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Actually, just any dress even nudging towards that smocky peter pan collared direction like these ones from eBay are off the wardrobe palette too.  I'll be sad to see that Charles Anastase/Erin Featherston element go out of the wardrobe but alas, El Orfanato has now been imprinted on the brain... fans of the Peter Pan collared dress beware...

Vintage Nurse Uniform [5] // Secretary Stripy Dress [6]

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