"
Fashion police" is an imaginary
police force, making sure that people dress according to
fashion. The term is jokingly used for self-appointed individuals who
criticise or critique the
clothing others wear, and thereby those others' fashion sense. The term can sometimes be used in a disparaging sense, holding that the
fashion police have a narrow, rigid or uncreative sense of style or propriety, or it can be used with approval of what the presumed judgment of the
fashion police would be if present ("Somebody call the fashion police!"), if the speaker believes someone has committed a fashion
faux pas.
Other uses of this term include:
Fashion Police, TV program