in praise of some twin peaks clothes

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I recently watched Twin Peaks: The Return, which this post is not about. (Sorry.) What it is about is that every time Naomi Watts’s character, Janey-E, popped up, I found myself saying “they did such a great job with her clothes.” In 2017, all her clothes are just a little off trend and also kind of clearly the mass produced, “TJ Maxx” version of whatever that trend originally was. Janey-E wears a lot of ballet flats, even though I’d personally put the colorful ballet flat imperial phase as ending around 2015. There’s often a sort of residual post-Modcloth, post-Anthropologie twee to her looks.

See, for instance, the blouse in this scene. And the ballet flats: