Sienna and Savannah Miller's new clothing line, Twenty8Twelve (after Sienna's birthday, December 28) launched this past Friday, September 7 at Holt Renfrew's Bloor Street store in Toronto. I was not at the official launch at noon that day (work, people!), but hit the store immediately after I left the office. At first glance, many of the outfits were extremely petite-unfriendly-- the full skirts were made out of heavy material and looked as if they were a very unflattering length for anyone under 5'7"; the shortest length pants were 32" and most of the pants were at 34. Some of the styles are also on the frilly side, which can overwhelm shorter, smaller figures. My plan was to try these outfits on and then write a very unflattering post here about how these clothes were very petite-unfriendly because of the length and heavy material. Guess what? I was kind of wrong. Twenty8Twelve was just plain unflattering and in some cases only a little bit unflattering or even okay.
The pants are, by default, not petite friendly due to length, other outfits, especially the skirt I tried on, were not that bad. The good news is that sizes are TRUE SIZES. In vanity-size speak, I'm a zero, or even a double zero, but with Twenty8Twelve, I could barely squeeze into size 2, their smallest size (the largest size I saw was a 14.) It didn't help that it was high waisted, and was right on the bottom of my ribcage (high waisted pants and skirts just look wrong on many petite figures...and it's something that stylists don't seem to tell you....they go on and on about calf lengths, but not high waisted bottoms!). Finally, this skirt had a big thick tie belt. VERY WRONG AND OVERWHELMING. Surprisingly, the length looked fine on me (at 5'2" ish, the skirt fell right below the knees.) and didn't feel as heavy as it did on the hanger. In other words, I would like to give this skirt a good review, but I can't based on how it fits some people. It would be great if it wasn't high waisted or had that belt. The jackets weren't too bad for slim, petite figures, but they could be slightly shorter. I wish I could find decent pictures to link to or post up, but the line is so new that they're hard to find (none of the stores which sell Twenty8Twelve (i.e. Harvey Nichols, Bergdorf Goodman, Holt Renfrew and Neiman Marcus) have links up!).
I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that Twenty8Twelve isn't all that petite friendly. Sienna is average height (5'5" according to IMDB, 5'6" according to other sources) and her sister, Savannah is taller, I believe. What we really need is a petite celeb who is willing to brand clothes for people around her height. Anyone here know Reese's reps?
