The next time we are in London we are staying at the Berkley hotel, the most fashionable hotel in the world! Why? Because they offer a tea that centers around new designer collections represented in pastry form. This is because they are amazing. No wonder fashionable types like Dior’s John Galliano, Naomi Campbell and Gwyneth Paltrow have all taken tea there. They change the menu from season to season, but right now, you can nibble on delicacies like Roger Vivier’s chocolate ‘over-the-knee’ boot biscuit with signature buckle and heart. Picture of some of the sweeties served below – bon chic, bon gout indeed.

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We have a contest for the guys! Or for the ladies with a man in their life who deserves a new pair of jeans! REVOLVEclothing is giving away a pair of Nudie Slim Jim jeans in Dry Black Coated to 1 lucky DenimBlog reader! These jeans are hot and have a huge celebrity fan base including Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, The Jonas Brothers and more!

This contest is a Twitter contest so all you have to do to enter is: Follow DenimBlog and REVOLVEclothing on Twitter (click the names to follow) and tweet the following entry:

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The contest is open worldwide and will close on 29th March 2010. You can re-tweet as much as you like to increase your chances of winning. The winner will be selected at random by REVOLVEclothing from those who are following DenimBlog and REVOLVEclothing on Twitter and have tweeted the entry. Good luck to everyone who enters!

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This week we asked you a bunch of things, mostly about fashion. Here’s what you had to say:

• Sixty percent of you said that you would never, ever dress like JWoww. Exactly zero percent of you said that you’d be happy to wear her scarf-shirts. This may not bode well for her upcoming fashion line.
• However, 37 percent of you would wear the “Fuck Her Face” necklace favored by Diablo Cody and her girlfriends. An additional 34 percent would still wear it but pretend that it was just a joke instead of a major lifestyle statement.
• When news broke that Madonna was working on an upcoming collection for Macy’s, it was a dead heat between the pink Marilyn dress from “Material Girl” and the neo-cowgirl ensemble from “Don’t Tell Me” as the Madge look you most wanted to copy. The red string Kabbalah bracelet, despite its purported good luck properties, was the least-desired of the options.

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This dress is so lovely up close that it’s almost like an oil painting. The delicate stretch cotton and the soft lilac color could be great for day or evening, and the architecture makes it much more visually interesting than the average sundress.

Rachel Roy drape front dress: $1,995 from Shopbop.com.

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Coincidence or not? Kristen Stewart wore JET Jeans to the after party of  her new film, The Runaways. Kristen plays rocker Joan Jett in the film, so I can’t help but wonder if she wore them on purpose. Either way, she looks like she’s having a lot of fun for once!

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Fergie was seen at the after party at the Bacardi VIP Room at M2 Ultra Lounge in honor of the Black Eyed Peas. She was wearing J Brand 901 leggings in Pitch that she was spotted in before. I think the outfit looks great, it is very laid back. But I do think she needs a different hairstyle. Buy these leggings at J Brand for $139.

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Lilit and I are fairly skeptical about things that smell like things, especially after that whole unfortunate little episode with Marc Jacobs’ biscotti perfume (which smelt like pork and cleaning fluid). But, oh, God, we could not even have expected the brilliance that is Lather’s Almond, Milk & Honey Body Butter.

We love the way this product smells in a freakish way that makes us think that maybe it has magical properties. The scent transported us – like the taste of Proust’s madeleines – back to the happiest moments of our pre-teen days.  The lotion is supposed to do something for our dry hands too, but whatever, we just slather it over them so we can hold our hands inconspicuously close to our noses and inhale the scent. I wish they would turn this into a perfume, because I would spritz it on my pillow every night before I went to sleep. But maybe it’s just us? No, it’s not. We went around the office demanding that people try this and say what it smells like. These are their comments:

This is like cake batter. It is delicious.

It reminds me of cherry Lip Smackers. Remember cherry Lip Smackers? I used to have a necklace of those. There was a pineapple scent and a Dr Pepper scent. It wasn’t a real necklace. It was a rope necklace.

Is it for tasting? This smells like it would taste so good. (No, it is lotion).

It is sugar and spice and everything nice. Minus spice.

No, BonneBell. Yes, it’s like my first BonneBell lip gloss. I can’t remember what flavor that was supposed to be, but it was so good.

It totally does smell like BonneBell. Or sun tan lotion, but not gross.

It’s some kind of pastry.

Like your mother used to make?

To me, it smells like the time my family went to Hawaii when I was 9, and the lobby of the hotel smelt like gardenias and coconuts. I loved that trip.

Like a cookie. A fresh baked cookie. No, no, it’s Dum Dums. Remember? The lollipops. It’s some sort of candy Dum Dum flavor.

Oh God, can I eat it?

No, no, this is cherry. Cherry sourballs. It smells just like cherry sourballs.

Obviously, the smell is different for everyone because everyone’s idea of happiness is different. This “Almond, Milk and & Honey Body Butter” label is clearly just a cover because they couldn’t write “The Happiest Moments of Your Youth, in Scent Form” because that would seem too meta. Still, they should have given us a hint and called it “Rosebud,” you know?

Also, if the publicist could send us twenty bottles they’d be appreciated, because now everyone wants some.

On a scale of 1-10 ranking whether this thing smells like the thing it is supposed to smell like: 1,000,000. Because it exceeds almond, milk & honey and instead achieves the very scent of joy.

Buy this! Buy it now! Otherwise you will be muttering its name on your deathbed and the reporter will not understand. – Lather

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Sure, I love rompers … on five year olds. However, if you’re at an age when there’s no longer a risk that you will pull your skirt up to your waist and wave it back and forth at the sandbox, then maybe you should just wear a dress. You know, like a grown up. Or pants! Pants work too.

Why do rompers exist? Seriously, did someone just decide “I am not competent enough to put on both shorts and a shirt” and had to stitch them all together? And don’t tell me, “a romper is great because it’s a coordinated outfit all in one!” So is a dress. So are pants a shirt that you took five minutes to coordinate – if you want your outfit to look like a romper, you can buy the pants and the shirt in the exact same fabric. Wait, that would look silly. Oh. Right.

But at least you’d be able to go to the restroom without peeling your entire body out of your garment. Wearing a romper is like being stuck in a one-piece swimsuit every time you go to the bathroom. But maybe they’ll make you looking amazing!

Except that they won’t. Most of the rompers I see (with the exception of ones being worn by stick thin models, and if you are a stick thin model, you can wear pretty much anything and look okay) aren’t making anyone’s figure look all that great. Which sort of makes sense – I imagine the designer has to imagine how the entirety of, say, a size 8 woman’s body looks, rather than just her top. Or her bottom. Sure, that’s sort of the case with a dress, too, but a slightly flowing skirt is going to give you some leeway. And, unfortunately, people are often say, a size 6 on top, a size 8 on the bottom.

The end result is that, unless your body is exactly the same size all the way through is that some portion of the romper does not fit properly. This is why every time one of your friends tries on a romper they say something to the effect of “it was cute, but the shorts were way too short. But I bought it anyway, because I make bad decisions.”  They don’t really say that about the bad decisions though, because somehow, they see it as being okay that one entire part of the outfit fits the wrong way. This does not happen when you buy a shirt and a pair of pants. If the pants don’t fit right, you don’t buy them. If the top doesn’t fit right, you don’t buy it. This is obvious buying-things logic.

But it’s not just that the fit on them always seems to be slightly off. I think the thing about them that makes me cringe most is that they’re a ridiculously infantilizing fashion statement. They basically say “I am still a playful little girl at heart, I just want to caper with you during playtime. Math is hard!” I think for me this sentiment gets reinforced by the frequency with which women who are supposed to appear childlike and unthreatening are thrust into jumpers – remember Chrissy from Three’s Company? That girl was always in a romper. With pigtails. Do you see Meryl Streep in a romper? No. You do not. Try to imagine Hillary Clinton in a Romper. Actually, don’t. It will make your head explode.

Oh, okay, fine, those women are not commonly accepted “style icons”. Audrey Hepburn. Audrey Hepburn would eat a plate full of tacks before wearing a romper. I hope. It is at least reassuringly difficult to imagine her wearing one. Unfortunately, I can picture Katherine Hepburn in one, but I’m willing to chalk that up to her loving pants and being thrust into one by a manager who thought it seemed more ladylike.

That’s why the only adjective that ever describes a romper is “cute.” No one ever calls it sleek. Or sophisticated. Well, I suppose some people do but those are either a) fashion writers picking adjectives out of a hat or b) idiots.  That’s because it almost never (an exception is made for Dita von Teese, because an exception is always made for Dita von Teese) looks like either of those things. Best case scenario, it has a sort of childlike appeal, worst case scenario, you look like trailer trash, and, by the way, your top is about to fall off.

You don’t need to look that saccharine, kitschy cute. You’re not a kindergartner.  You don’t need someone to pre-coordinate shorts and a shirt for you. Nor do you need to be going through an elaborate disrobing ritual every time you visit the restroom. You’re an adult. Dress like one.

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Salma Hayek was spotted out with daughter Valentina in Los Angeles wearing her 7 For All Mankind Superflare jeans in Ibiza that she wore almost one year ago. They visited a medical building in Beverly Hills for a doctor checkup. It looks like she really ate away at those poor hems on those jeans!

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