New Spring Fashions and
Spring Fashion Tips Achieve Sensible Chic

Draped Dresses Flatter Your Figure

Many designs will appeal if you love soft colors, prints, and filmy fabrics such as silk and silk blends.

Ruching is a design element that may result in attractively draped designed elements.

Ruched tops, dresses, and accessories are everywhere. Learn how to avoid four fashion faux pas when adding a garment with ruching to your wardrobe.

Slit Skirts Show Off Your Legs

If you got ‘em, flaunt ‘em fashionably this spring and summer. Skinny strap sandals or a little heel will complete this sexy look.

Khaki Is the Comeback Queen

Is Boyfriend Blazer Hiding in Your Closet?

You can’t go wrong adding another neutral-toned jacket to your wardrobe, especially if you snag one on sale.

If you have some longer jackets in the back of your closet (I do), you’ve got a freebie for the parade of new spring fashions. Roll the cuffs for a slouchy look and wear a fabulous hat on bad hair days.

Spring Fashion Tips: When you interpret the boyfriend jacket for your wardrobe, put your emphasis on the word slightly before baggy. A little extra room may be charming. Just remember: Baggy clothing makes us look like bag ladies.

Relaxed Fit Is Super-Chic and Feels So Good

And coral has gone viral.

Unstructured or semi-structured is a good look for spring jackets and vests.

Relaxed fit and more loosely fitting pants are slowly gaining ground over the dominance of the legging look for the past five years or so.

Perhaps it’s time to indulge in some raw silk drawstring slacks that are eternal sensible chic.

Good-bye Bling - Hello Military Inspired Metals

The look is heavy metal and futuristic military. You might dabble in metallics for trendy women’s clothes if you are a sci-fi fan, an online gamer, or socialize with an arty crowd.

Fashionising identifies leather tunics, chain mail and metal plate details, and tribal designs as top of the line.

Novica is a store that works with National Geographic Society to bring you tribal designs, handmade and unique Clothing and Accessories from Around the World

Crocus Yellow Is Startling Newcomer

Spring Fashion Tips: Put together an outfit in tonal gray. Spice it up with an unusual accent – such as yellow. Yellow sallows out a lot of women, but a bit of this fashionable hue in shoes or a bag may be used.

If you've got yellow fever, here are some suggestions for trendy women's clothes in this traffic-stopping hue.

The Color Coral and Vivid Pink Dominate Palette

Reds, oranges, pinks, and various shades of reddish-brown are favored for new spring fashions. Tweed, usually considered a winter fabric, does spring in bright colors such as coral.

If you love the color coral, hot pink, and fuchshia, it's time for a shopping spree.

Leopard and Animal Prints Are on a Wild Style Run

Tiger, giraffe, pony -- pick a critter, and you can find a delightfully fun faux.

Snakeskin is the comer.

Fashion Disasters Waiting to Happen

• Hot pants and boy shorts. If you wore hot pants when they launched in the 1970s, they are not trendy women’s clothes on you the second time around.

• Knee highs and over-the-knee socks. You can get away with the naughty schoolgirl look until roughly age 30. After that, we are more likely to look like a schoolmarm who lost her laundry.

• Bikinis – unless you are wearing them in your backyard with only your closest friends.

• Jumpsuits. The seats sag, and you will look like Mr. GreenJeans. I don’t mean that in a good way.

• Ripped jeans and torn denim. A retro fad you wore the first time around is aging, not youthful.

• Bulky feathered skirts seem to be everywhere. A stick-thin runway model can get away with this. Most of us cannot.

  Spring Fashion Tips: Go for a feather boa, a fur-trimmed wrap or plunging feathered collar. A little bit of ostrich plumes goes a long way.

More about New Spring Fashions: Find out why women are crazy for khaki and the best-khakis.


The color coral has gone viral. Catch the contagion.


Fashion-colors-for-fall focus on pewter. Find out about fall and winter fashion trends.

Discover Your Inner Goddess with the Fashion Archetype Quiz

Take the fashion archetype quiz and discover your fashion profile.

If several types are nearly even, you have developed an wardrobe that suits various dimensions of your life and integrates elements of your personality.

Good for you!

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