{"id":1774,"date":"2011-04-05T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2011-04-05T14:05:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T13:05:04","slug":"women-go-wild-for-black-swan-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/05\/women-go-wild-for-black-swan-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Go Wild for Black Swan Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twenga.co.uk\/\">Twenga<\/a>, the most comprehensive shopping search engine, can reveal that the Black Swan phenomenon is influencing fashion with women expressing both their lighter and darker sides through elegant ballet-inspired clothes.<\/p>\n<p>Searches for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twenga.co.uk\/dir-Sports,Sports-apparel,Women-s-leotard\">leotards<\/a> have shot up by 288% this year, worn with sports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twenga.co.uk\/dir-Lingerie,Tights-and-stockings,Women-s-tights\">tights<\/a> by Adidas (up 75%) or luxury tights by La Perla (up 850%).\u00a0 Although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twenga.co.uk\/dir-Fashion,Women-s-shoes-pumps-boots-and-sandals,Ballet-flats\">ballet flats<\/a> are becoming something of a staple, searches have still risen by 21% and sporty models by Nike (+580%), Puma (276%) and Killah (240%) have seen dramatic increases in searches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twenga.co.uk\/dir-Fashion,Women-s-tops-and-jumpers,Women-s-wrapover-top\">Wrapover tops<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twenga.co.uk\/dir-Fashion,Dresses,Wrap-dress\">wrap dresses<\/a> finish the look and searches for both are up, by 90% and 67% respectively.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twenga.co.uk\/dir-Sports,Gymnastics-and-dance,Dance-tutu\">Dance tutus<\/a> too have seen a 163% increase.<\/p>\n<p>But which swan do British women relate to most?<\/p>\n<p>With 78% opting for a white leotard and just 22% going for black, it seems British women\u2019s innocence is intact.\u00a0 For now.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Searches from 1\/1\/11 \u2013 6\/3\/11, compared with 28\/10\/10 \u2013 31\/12\/10<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenga, the most comprehensive shopping search engine, can reveal that the Black Swan phenomenon is influencing fashion with women expressing both their lighter and darker sides through elegant ballet-inspired clothes. Searches for leotards have shot up by 288% this year, worn with sports tights by Adidas (up 75%) or luxury tights by La Perla (up 850%).\u00a0 Although ballet flats are<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/05\/women-go-wild-for-black-swan-style\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Women Go Wild for Black Swan Style&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}