THE NEW PRETTY WOMAN – Romantics
Envisage sherbet colours, dresses, silk lace camisoles, pretty scallop edges, satin, lace, flounces, ribbons, bows and soft tones of shell pink. Black set against pink blush all helps create see through lacy bra and corset effects and must-have underwear outerwear fashion looks.
Right – Pretty Romantic Designer Dress from Ralph Lauren – Available at select stores USA.
Picture champagne tones, diaphanous floating dresses, washed parachute silk and pretty girlish looks. Think of Plisse fabrics, chiffon, cloque, and Chantilly lace. Every material can help create fairytale frocks with frothy frills, frou frou ruffles and flounces.
Sweetshop pastels, candy floss, sugar fondant, sorbet ice and cupcake colours, are all part of the new pretty. But cute is not always edgy, so you may need to harden this look a little by bringing it back down to earth with utility touches for the modern world. Studded accessories help harden up peachy looks.
Far Left – Republic SS10 Miso Collection – Pink Draped Dress – Republic Spring Summer 2010 Miso.
Centre Left – Rare Spring Summer 2010 – Three Colour Ruched Tube Dress REF:DG-RY22 at RARE.
Centre – Cream Dress with Decorative Bodice by Marks & Spencer – No details.
Centre Right – River Island Pink Dress – No details.
Far Right – Matalan – Et Vous Lace Detail Dress £25 – Matalan SS10 – Key Shapes. Stockist Tel. 0845 330 3330.
The dress – is clearly still with us and Mad Men sheath dresses in Betty Draper & Christina Hendricks styles now abound. But body con hugging fabrics and body con cuts dress use a multitude of fabrics that pull and push the figure into hour glass shapes.