Don’t you recall the time when Jennifer Aniston’s ‘Rachel’ cut triggered a stampede of fashionistas hurrying to get the It-cut? How about when Carrie Bradshaw’s rhinestone, initial necklace and 3-D flower brooch transformed young women into bedazzle-hungry, flower-hunting fashion-maniacs? Or even when Debra Messing’s Will & Grace wedding dress set off a firestorm of knock-offs? 
From Messing to Parker to Aniston…where did you go?
If you do remember these times, I suggest you keep hold of them; in today’s sitcom TV landscape, fashion is about as distant as Star Jones on The View. Think about it, can you even name one fashion trendsetting character you can tune into on a weekly sitcom? And no, the O.C. girls don’t count - we are not all trying to look 17!
The only fashion inspiration one can expect to see on TV is either from good ol’ Fashion File or ANTM/Project Runway/The Hills – all of which are reality-based shows. And let’s be honest, do you really want to be taking fashion advice from Jay Manuel, with his Ken-Doll-meets-Glad-Man-meets-SuperDuper-gel coif and all?
I say bring back the scripted, unrealistic, trend-setting, sitcom fashionista. I think the fall runway’s voice a similar hunger - I mean, amongst the heavy grunge and voluminous silhouettes, who ever claimed that fashion was supposed to be for real life anyway? Pfffft.
