Peter Som Spring 2014: A Mixed Bag of “Surf Style Goes Below 14th Street”

There’s often a lot of discussion around whether certain ready-to-wear fashions actually have a place off the runway. That debate raged in my mind as I viewed Peter Som’s Spring 2014 collection. I’m hard pressed to come up with a place one, even one with a perfect body, would wear Peter Som’s tweed shorts suit worn over a button-up, collared crop top. It was distracting…