My Love/Hate Relationship With Mint Pants

Mint is, well, everywhere this season, and I kind of really love it. I mean, how can you not love such a fun and flattering color? I cannot wait until I get my tan on and really take advantage of my own mint pieces. Pastels, especially mint, became the colors of the season during the spring shows, below: (Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Yves Saint Laurent. Photos from Style.com)

Then, Lady Gaga named Mint as the color of the season in her "Marry The Night" music video, and, since what the Queen says goes, it became ubiquitous. As I'm sure you've noticed, mint is everywhere now: dresses, tops, pants, shorts, skirts, mani-pedis... At first, it was my minty-dream-come-true. I absolutely loved it.

But heres the thing: mint pants are out of control. Not in the good way. I was so excited for everyone to be wearing mint pants - they're something totally new and unexpected that came out of this season. They give an outfit a fun pop of color while remaining totally classy.
Everyone took that "fun and unexpected" part and turned them into the most overdone piece I have seen in a while. It's like no one is able to come up with an original outfit. The number of girls I have seen wearing mint pants with a simple white blouse was unreal.

While this is such a cute outfit, it already feels old

I have never gotten over a look so quickly as I did with this. By the end of that first nice day I was disappointed and over it. Heres the thing though: it's not like a white blouse is the only thing that would go well with mint pants, there are so many things that go with mint and would pair with mint pants soo well - whyy can't people wear them? Heres a short list:

Black (Maybe throw on a blazer or leather jacket)
Cream (trench coat, anyone...?
Navy (or really just any blue)
Patterns
More pastels
Light and dark shades of red

And I'm sure you can come up with more. There are *a lot* of options that aren't white; please choose them. Mint looks modern, but the mint pants/white blouse look has already been done to death and you won't look as trendy as you hope to.


Just to clear something up. I'm not breaking up with the Mint pants/white blouse look. But we're definitely on a ross/rachel break.