how to wear animal print in a socially acceptable manner!:)

Okydoke. So after I wrote my last post on my dad's style law #1 I decided that I should write a post on how to wear animal print well instead of listening to my dad and looking like a deformed leopard that fell into a bucket of nasty. So... here are some pictures I found to delight and amaze you. Enjoy them. Done? Okay then, now go... eat a Popsicle or something, I don't know... Love,
Belle.
I've got to give props to modelmanagement.com and the blog: chicisimo for some of the pictures (I found one of the pics of a girl with leopard tights on chicisimo, and another pic of a girl with leopard tights on modelmanagement) . The weirdo with the cat on her head is my sister. Yep. The cat isn't exactly a leopard but what rulebook says animal print has to be leopard, why can't it be black cat and still alive? Definitely not dead because thar (thar? What am I? A pirate?) that would be horrible and sad. But alive? Why not? Okay. I'm actually done now. Good night, dears.

How to wear animal print according to my dad...

Okay. So I was inspired by the book Sh*t my Dad Says to write this post. The day after Thanksgiving we were eating leftovers for Dad's birthday and his fiance was wearing a gray leopard print shirt and she was a little self-conscious about it because she'd never really worn gray or leopard print, so it was definitely a stretch for her to wear both together. So my dad turns to her and says- in a voice that would give the impression that he really knows what he's talking about- that it works and is fashionable for her to wear animal print because it wasn't in the actual color of the animal fur. Now you really need to understand a little something about my dad for this to make sense: my dad is not a fashionisto. He wears Otomix pants and Otomix shoes with a fanny pack and- invariably- some martial arts t-shirt every day. When he said this I turned to my sister just as she turned to me and we both had this look like 'huh. reeally. you don't say, I didn't know Dad was an expert on fashion now'. I mean, okay, sure, so he bought his first pair of real pants, but an expert? So here is a post of different articles of clothing that follow my dad's Laws of Fashion. Law #1: animal prints are only acceptable if they are in a color other than the natural color of the animal. Love,
Belle