The ASOS ‘Extreme Mini’ skirt is basically a belt

Another day, another online retail outlet trying to sell something confusing.

In today’s edition, we have ASOS, home of the useful accessory, occasional non-airbrushed model and now, apparently, the belt-masquerading as skirt.

The item in question is the “Extreme Mini Denim Skirt With Belt”.

Most of the words in this description work: it's definitely extreme; it's definitely mini; it's definitely denim; there is definitely a belt.

There’s just no way this is a skirt.

Image: asos.com

Wait, you say. Maybe it's just a funny angle. Maybe you just need to see it from the back.

Image: asos.com

Then again, maybe not.

An important aside: This is not a matter of being sniffy about skimpy clothes – power to anyone able to carry off a very small piece of denim and ... whatever we should be calling this cutout leotard device.

This is a matter of truthfulness, and accuracy. It's a matter of calling a spade a spade, and a belt a belt.

ASOS has tried to improve the "skirt" disguise of its belt with a confusing addition: another belt.

Image: asos.com

But Twitter wasn't fooled for a second.

"FYI Asos this is a belt, not a skirt," wrote one user, wisely.

Image: Twitter/@SeeWantShop

Seeing it in context (which according to ASOS seems to be a leather jacket and fishnet socks) doesn't make an especially strong case for the "skirt" camp either.

Image: asos.com

The item comes from designer Jaded London, whose clothes have been seen on Beyoncé, Rita Ora and Ellie Goulding, among others.

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With that kind of fashion cred, who knows – maybe this signals the return of a trend.

Image: Twitter/@Sideshowtim

Low-rise, it seems, is back. Belt up.