New Spring Fashions and
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Draped Dresses Flatter Your Figure
Dresses with draped fronts give you an ultra-feminine and figure-flattering silhouette.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
Slit hemlines – especially high splits – are trendy women’s clothes right now. Great gams can one of an older woman’s greatest assets, since it’s among the last body parts to sag.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
Khaki suits are sensible chic new spring fashions that you can dress up or down. Create your own mix-and-match ensemble and find out why women are crazy for khaki.Is Boyfriend Blazer Hiding in Your Closet?
The boyfriend blazer is a favorite – a slightly oversized garment, sometimes worn with sleeves rolled.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
A tailored vest in a tunic length can jazz up many skirts, slacks, and dresses. Go for a neutral, coral, or red. New spring fashions show many choices for red jackets and dresses this spring.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
Metallics also turn up in new spring fashions.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
Crocus yellow – one shade a way from taxicab yellow – is turning up in trendy women’s clothes such as shoes, slickers, and dresses. 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
Alan Barger has a nice interpretation of spring color trends in his color fashion trend report. Reds, oranges, pinks, and various shades of reddish-brown are favored. Tweed, usually considered a winter fabric, does spring in bright colors such as coral.
Leopard and Animal Prints Are on a Wild Style Run
Never really out of style since at least the early 20th century, leopard-print clothing leopard print clothing is stronger than ever in environmentally-conscious fakes.Tiger, giraffe, pony -- pick a critter, and you can find a delightfully fun faux.
Snakeskin is the comer.
Fashion Disasters Waiting to Happen
Don't let these fashion disasters-in-waiting happen to you.- 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.
You don't want to look like the female feather duster, below.
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.
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