The World Needs More Dogs in Tiny Cardigans世人需要更多穿著小開衫的狗

When I decided to name my pug Bj?rk after the pagan pop poet， I knew it would come with certain responsibilities. My dog had a reputation to live up to. Acquiring a fantastic wardrobe for her felt like a must.

我給我的哈巴狗取名比約克，與那位流行音樂界的異教徒詩人同名，取完名字我就知道特定的責任隨之而來。我的狗必須配得上這個名字負有的聲譽。看來為她打造一個精美的衣櫥勢在必行。

But three months after I got Bj?rk， the pandemic started. Suddenly I had nothing to do but panic about the state of the world and stare into the eyes of this funny little five-pound creature.

但我剛養比約克三個月，新冠疫情就暴發了。突然間，除了對全球事態感到恐慌，我無事可做，只能成日和家里五磅重的有趣小生命大眼瞪小眼。

One night， after weeks of manufactured cheerfulness， my mom， a nurse who worked at the COVID unit， admitted she was scared. To cope， I turned to my worst habit， impulsive shopping， and bought matching Ashley Williams1 cardigans on Ssense2 for me and for Bj?rk. Then—because what else was I supposed to do？ —I staged a photo shoot.

那時，我媽媽是在新冠隔離病房工作的護士。強顏歡笑幾周后，有天晚上她坦白說自己其實很害怕。為了驅散媽媽的恐懼，我重拾最糟糕的舊習，沖動購物了一番，在購物平臺“伊桑斯”上給自己和比約克買了配套的阿什莉·威廉姆斯羊毛開衫。接著，反正也沒有什么其他事可做，我就去拍了一組照片。

I was my mom’s first daughter. Growing up， she’d show me photos of the two of us in matching outfits， insisting that would be my future someday with my children. I’m not quite sure if she imagined my first daughter would be a pug， but what is life if not one big surprise？ When I showed her the photos of Bj?rk and me in those sweaters back in May of 2020， I heard her laugh through the phone for the first time in weeks.

我是媽媽的第一個女兒。從小到大，媽媽總會給我看我們倆穿親子裝的照片，她堅持認為我和我的孩子未來有天也會那樣穿。我不太確定媽媽是否想過我的第一個女兒會是一只哈巴狗，但如果沒有巨大的驚喜，那還是生活嗎？于是，2020年5月，我給媽媽看了我和比約克穿親子羊毛開衫的照片，她在電話那頭笑了，那是幾周以來我第一次聽見她笑。

So naturally， when I heard downtown designer Sandy Liang announced that she would be making four dog pieces based off her most recent runway in collaboration with the dogwear brand Little Beast， I shrieked. I wasn’t the only one. On Liang’s Instagram， commenters deemed the clothes a fashion dog mom’s dream come true. There was a tiny red fleece with fluffy white flowers on the sleeves， two itty-bitty cropped cardigans with oversized collars， and a little red puffer coat adorned with bow detailing.

可想而知，當我聽說都市潮流設計師梁美禪宣布自己將與狗狗服飾品牌“小萌寵”合作，依據她最新的秀場作品推出四款寵物狗服裝時，我不禁發出了尖叫。原來不止我一人會和狗狗穿親子裝。在梁美禪的“照片墻”主頁上，網友紛紛評論說，那四款寵物服裝的出現實現了時尚“狗媽”的夢想。四款衣服里有一款袖子繡著毛絨白花的小巧紅色抓絨衣，兩款領口寬大的超短款羊毛開衫和一款飾有蝴蝶結的紅色羽絨小外套。

There is a level of serotonin3 that I think can only be unlocked when you dress your dog in a silly little fit. And I am no mathematician， but I think that joy goes up exponentially when the clothing looks like something you might wear， too. As the years go on， there seem to be fewer and fewer things the entire world is able to agree on， but a dog in a great look still has mass appeal.

我認為，有一種愉悅，只有給狗狗穿上搞笑的小衣服時，你才會體驗到。雖然我不是數學家，但是我覺得如果那件衣服看上去像是你本人也會穿的，那么這份愉悅就會呈指數級增長。隨著時間的推移，盡管全世界能達成共識的事越來越少，但一只打扮新潮的狗狗仍然人見人愛。

And while dog sweaters have always been a thing， we seem to be living in an age of particularly stylish dog clothing. Miu Miu sells a pink matelasse coat for dogs that looks like something Lotta Volkova would wear. Prada introduced a $1，020 dog harness that doubles4 as a small backpack （for on-the-go treats？）. And back in 2022， Gucci’s pet campaign went viral for moody pet portraits that featured a chihuahua in a striped strawberry onesie and a matching strawberry balaklava5.

雖然狗狗毛衣一直很流行，但我們似乎生活在一個狗狗服飾格外新潮的時代。繆繆發售了一款粉色提花紋狗狗外套，看起來像是知名造型師洛塔·沃爾科娃會穿的款式。普拉達之前推出了一款售價1020美元的狗狗背帶，它還可以用作小背包（裝上能隨身攜帶的零食？）。早在2022年，古馳以寵物肖像為素材的廣告就因貓貓狗狗表情高深莫測而走紅，其中一只穿著草莓印花條紋連身衣，頭戴配套草莓形狀巴拉克拉瓦帽的吉娃娃格外引人注目。

But it’s the smaller designers with enthusiastic cult followings who are ushering in a new era. It’s not just Sandy Liang. As of several years ago， Ssense started launching exclusive pet collabs with cool girl brands like Ashley Williams and Collina Strada. Honestly， if I saw a dog on the street wearing its stretch nylon jersey with leg warmers， I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it helped up an iPhone with its paw and uploaded a #fitcheck to TikTok.

然而，引領寵物服飾新時代的卻是名聲較小但有狂熱粉絲追隨的設計師。他們之中不只有梁美禪。幾年前，伊桑斯平臺就開始攜手阿什莉·威廉姆斯和科利納·斯特拉達等酷女孩品牌打造獨家寵物系列。老實說，如果我在街上看到有狗狗穿著尼龍彈力運動衫和護腿襪套，就算它用爪子舉起手機，在TikTok的“穿搭展示”話題下發視頻，我也不會感到一丁點驚訝。

For Bazaar’s fashion commerce editor and my fellow dog mom Halie LeSavage， the phenomena felt destined to happen. “When you’re able to bring a designer whose visual language speaks to you into your wardrobe and onto your pet at the same time， it instantly telegraphs a little more about your style and outlook. So I think I’d find extra joy in some more matchy-matchy moments，” she says.

《時尚芭莎》雜志的時尚商務編輯哈莉·勒薩維奇與我同為“狗媽”。在她看來，各種寵物服飾似乎注定會火起來。她說：“如果一位設計師的視覺語言與你的審美契合，而你能夠將其作品購入衣櫥，同時穿在寵物身上，那么瞬間就能多展示出一點你的風格和穿搭喜好。因此，我覺得在搭配得更協調的時候，我會獲得額外的樂趣。”

She went on to say she unintentionally matches with her dog all the time. “I didn’t pick out my dog， Dolly， because her black and tan Bernedoodle coat coordinates with all of my favorite clothes. But it must have spoken to the same subconscious voice guiding my personal style; black and tan are overrepresented in my closet. Every time I wear a camel coat， I look like I’m trying to match her. I like that， in fashion speak， it’s a color story.”

勒薩維奇還說，她和狗狗的穿搭總是不經意地相稱。“我選擇多莉并不是因為伯爾尼多德爾犬有一身黑棕相間的毛發，跟所有我喜歡的衣服都很搭。不過，指導我個人風格的潛意識一定是與它的毛色相呼應。我衣櫥中的服飾有很大一部分是黑色和棕色的。每次我穿駝色外套，都像在努力和狗狗搭配。這樣挺不錯的，借時尚界的話說，這是色彩的際遇。”

Sometimes， I too， unintentionally match with Bj?rk. One time， I even put her in a chunky purple argyle sweater， only to realize I had bought my boyfriend a very similar knit. When I put photos of them together on my Instagram story， I had multiple people tell me it was the best thing they saw all week. It reminded me of the response I received after posting those photos with Bj?rk in our matching Ashley Williams.

有時，我的穿搭也會不經意地和比約克的相稱。有一次，我給她穿了一件厚實的紫色菱格毛衣，后來才意識到我之前給男朋友買了一件非常相似的針織衫。我把他們的合照發在“照片墻”的“快拍”上后，很多人告訴我那是他們一整周里看到的最棒的照片。這讓我想起了我把自己和比約克穿著阿什莉·威廉姆斯親子裝的合照發到網上后收到的那些評論。

Sandy Liang’s Little Beast collab-oration seems to have struck a similar chord; no fewer than ten of my friends sent me a link suggesting I needed to buy it immediately. One of my friends added a philosophical question： “This makes SO MUCH SENSE！ WHY？”

梁美禪與小萌寵的合作系列似乎也引發了類似的共鳴；不下十個朋友給我發來鏈接，建議我速速下單。其中一位朋友還附上了一個哲學問題：“寵物穿搭真是太有意思了！究竟為什么？”

For one， there’s the social media of it all. If there’s anything people love more than OOTDs6， it’s pets—in hats！ In shoes！ In clothing！ There’s also the fact that millennials and zoomers7 aren’t having as many kids as their predecessors， so they’re left with nothing but whiskered offspring to dress up. Things are also just dark and scary， and a dog who has no idea why it’s wearing a cropped cardigan is a happy， ridiculous distraction. Buying a matching cardi for yourself won’t solve anything， except， speaking from personal experience， maybe depression. And I think that’s worth it！

首先，社交媒體是一個很重要的影響因素。如果說有什么比分享“今日穿搭”更受人們喜愛，那就是戴著帽子、穿著鞋子和衣服的寵物！另外一個原因是，千禧一代和網生代的生育率不及上一代，所以他們只能打扮長著胡須的“后代”。此外，生活本已沉悶糟心，令人惶惶不安，但一只不懂自己為何穿著超短羊毛開衫的狗狗卻能讓人因為它的滑稽可愛開心一刻。給自己買一件和狗狗配套的羊毛開衫雖然解決不了任何問題，但根據我的個人經驗，這或許可以消解郁悶。我認為值得一試！

I also think， what young people want from their clothing right now is to get a little weird. It’s why Miu Miu， with its bedazzled panties and mini-skirts the size of a belt， and Loewe， with its impossibly high trousers and pumps with makeup brushes for heels， are the most popular brands of the moment. The fashion girls of today are more eager than ever to say， “I bought a Sandy Liang cardigan from her FW23 collection to match with my dog” with their full chests.

我還認為，現在的年輕人渴望穿得奇特一點。這就是為什么繆繆和羅意威成為當下最受歡迎的品牌——前者推出了亮片內褲和僅有腰帶寬的超短迷你裙，后者發售了超高腰長褲和化妝刷作鞋跟的高跟鞋。與以往任何時候相比，如今的時尚女孩們更渴望底氣十足地說：“我買了一件梁美禪2023年秋冬系列的羊毛開衫，穿來和我家狗狗搭配。”

And you know what， why shouldn’t they？ Maybe the world would be a better place if instead of looking to “elevated basics” brands for outfit inspo8， we were all looking to dogs in tiny coats and cardigans wearing our favorite runway looks. They’re not worrying about whether they’re trying too hard. They have no understanding of the never- ending trend cycle. They just are. And honestly， that’s how I aspire to be.

話說回來，這有何不可呢？如果我們不再從主打“高級基本款”的品牌中尋求穿搭靈感，而將視線轉向身穿小外套和羊毛開衫的狗狗，看它們扮上我們最愛的時裝秀造型，也許世界會變得更美好。狗狗們不會擔心自己的穿搭是否顯得太過刻意，也不理解時尚輪回永無止境。它們怎么穿搭都時尚。老實說，我希望自己也能如此。

（譯者為“《英語世界》杯”翻譯大賽獲獎者；單位：上海外國語大學）

1英國時尚品牌，因其獨特的設計風格和有趣夸張的元素聞名。" 2開創性的全球設計師潮牌集合平臺，因其500多個精選設計師潮牌及高端奢侈品牌而聞名。

3 serotonin血清素，可調節情緒、食欲等認知功能。" 4 double 兼作。" 5此處指巴拉克拉瓦帽，即一種幾乎完全圍住頭和脖子的兜帽。

6 OOTD = outfit of the day今日穿搭，社交媒體上的熱門話題標簽。" 7網生代（Generation Z）的別稱。

8 inspo〈俚語〉?啟發靈感的人或事物。