Ever wonder why you will find so few stylish people traipsing the streets nowadays? I do.There’s a dismaying uniformity.

Often it seems to me everybody is trying to seem like some celebrity. And, frequently, the result is a fashion disaster. Ill-fitting and unsuitable clothes are worn by people who really don’t look the slightestbit like some movie or TV star. 

The problem doesn’t keep me up at night. However i do ponder it. Recently, as you’re watching the superb documentary Bill Cunningham Ny (it’s airing regularly on SuperChannel this month) I was struck through the reason behind Cunningham’s fame as a photographer for The New York Times. He does impromptu photos of people walking the streets  people who look strikingly dressed. Cunningham doesn’t photograph celebrities. As he points out, celebrities are dressed by stylists. The things they wear isn’t a manifestation that belongs to thempersonality. 

This is very true but vast attention pays with a actress who was told getting a great look by somebody who has an offer with a designer. It’s getting worse, too. Let me tell you a story.Actress Sheila Kelley is on Monday’s episode of Gossip Girl (The CW, 8 p.m.). She plays Serena van der Woodsen’s mischievous Aunt Carol Rhodes. Certain shenanigans have required Kelley’s character

to go to the UpperEast Side for damage control.Now, I’d normally be oblivious

to the antics of Serena van der Woodsen and her aunt. However i received an alert from the PR company about Kelley’s go back to Gossip Girl. The point wasn’t to get some press coverage for the appearance. It had been to promote Sheila Kelley’S Factor, a fitness technique that incorporates fluid feminine movement and pole dancing.For a limited time, Gossip Girl fans can win Kelley’s Soulfully Sexy DVDs. I now realize that S Factor, that has studios in several U.S. cities, and sells DVDs and stuff, is known as ?¡ãthe first and only pole dancing and striptease workout in the world.In case your children are watching Gossip Girl (the core demographic is teenage girls), there’s something right there you can put under theChristmas tree.I draw this matter

to your attention because, at regular intervals I also get bulletins from the CW, using the subject heading, Fashion to Talk About. These press releases inform me and folks who cover TV, about the fashionable items worn on the show. What they are and where you can purchase them. Gossip Girl and the new Hart of Dixie are the two implies that relentlessly flog the schmatte worn through the characters inside amajor manner. 

The most recent bulletin about Hart of Dixie, which stars Rachel Bilson like a doctor in the Deep South, doing her doctoring and meeting cute guys, gave info on her outfits. Bilson isn’t wearing very much within the photo of the key scene, which is not unusual, I gather. A teensy dress plus some shoes. The dress is as simple as Herve Leger and the shoes are by Christian Louboutin. The things they cost was unknown to me until I Googled “Herve Leger dressHart of Dixie” and discovered, instantly, it is $2,200 (U.S.). It looks excellent around thetiny Bilson. 

When it concerns what they wear on Gossip Girl, I will tell you that an outfit worn through the social climber Jenny (Taylor Momsen) comprised earrings by Diana Warner, necklace by Courtney Udelson, coat by Zero + Mario Cornejo and sweater by Alexander Wang. At that point I stopped. I understandthe coat costs $1000.Granted,

a few of the clothes are pretty, though few could be considered truly stylish they’re expensive but ordinary and obviously chosen by stylists employed by the show. Also, call me crazy but some clothing is chosen so that the result is an outburst in sales for thatdesigner or manufacturer. 

This is one way that television generates revenue nowadays. Not only are there ads throughout the commercial breaks, but the items you are seeing worn by actors has been peddled too. The end result, I place it for you, is definitely an unreasonable quantity of peddling expensive clothes, and streets teeming with fashion victims.