Link Love: Bridal Wear Trends for 2015

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Link Love: Bridal Wear Trends for 2015

— by Inge

on February 5, 2015

In addition to traditional and elegant creations from designers like Carolina Herrera and Monique Lhuillier, T Magazine also spotted cropped tops, jumpsuits and futuristic headpieces on the catwalk during Fall 2015 Bridal Week.

Popsugar takes a closer look at the makeup and hairstyle trends that complemented the runway creations.

Would you wear shorts on your wedding day? J.Crew is offering sequined bridal shorts with matching racerback top as part of their bridal collection for Spring 2015.

Refinery29 brings us 33 Wedding Gowns That Are Even More Beautiful From The Back, and 15 ensembles for brides who prefer a less traditional look.

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Shipskitty thought this article about iconic local workboot brand Rossi could be interesting for our Australian readers.

She also found this Fashionista post about plus size and brand perception fascinating.

Angie likes Sylvia’s asymmetrical vest layering techniques. A great White-Out look with gorgeous flat booties, although there are fun colourful renditions further down the post. Comfortable, avant-garde and fab for milder weather.

As someone who loves Lands’ End quality clothing, but admits they sometimes skew a little short of fashion-forward, Laurinda was interested to see that they hired Federica Marchionni (currently president of Dolce & Gabbana) as CEO.

While searching for stylish shoes for her swing dance lessons, Citygirldc discovered vintage and stylish shoes at B.A.I.T. Footwear.

Celia finds the blog Classy Girls Wear Pearls great eye candy. She adds: “Yes, it is a blog filled with beautiful young people in a preppy style and amazing locations that probably most of us cannot/don’t want to emulate but it makes you dream a little. Like a mini vacation.”

Diane G loved Catherine’s positive article about wearing leather trousers at any age. There are some fab examples of bloggers rocking the look, including a picture of Annette, who was recently featured on YLF.

La Belle Demimondaine really enjoyed Project 333’s new article. She said: “They have a new contributor, Erin, who actually made a video of her process in selecting her capsule for the project, and there are some great ideas I had not considered before, particularly with layering.”

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Sylvia

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Thank you Inge for some great links and thank you Angie for highlighting my article on long vests! Great to read that you like what I have been doing with it.

I later discovered another way to wear the vest and I wore it a lot in a belted way in The Netherlands, which turned out to be my favorite way of wearing the vest. You can see an image of that here: http://40plusstyle.com/how-to-.....in-winter/

February 5, 2015 at 5:06 pm

gradfashionista

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Veteran

Thanks for the links! Waiting for the day when bridal trends incorporate a midi sheath dress look, along the lines of Black Halo’s Jackie O silhouette.

February 5, 2015 at 5:24 pm

Angie

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Fashion Stylist

Oh, Inge. I want to get married all over again to Greg in one of those fun outfits.

February 5, 2015 at 5:43 pm

shipskitty

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Thanks Inge. There are some fun links there

February 6, 2015 at 1:52 am

Diane G

Aren’t the back details on those gowns fabulous! And Sylvia’s asymmetrical vest outfit is the colours used in today’s ensemble post…very fitting, and she looks great!
Thanks Inge and everyone else.

February 6, 2015 at 8:36 am

Laura (rhubarbgirl)

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The article about plus sizes and branding is interesting to me, especially given I just posted about Mango’s Violeta sale. Violeta is sizes 10-20, and at first I rolled my eyes at the idea, thinking it was just for women who didn’t want to admit that they’re plus-sized. But now I’m warming to it. As someone who’s been an ‘in-betweenie’ my whole life since puberty, it is tiresome to find misses’ sizes too small and plus sizes too big. When I lost some weight and became a size 12 in most things and sized out of places like Lane Bryant, it was surprisingly non-useful because I’m tall and big boned, so a lot of misses’ sizes get too short and narrow as they go down in size. Petite/smaller-boned plus sized women have the opposite problem, in that the plus-sized garments are just too long and too wide and swamp them.

As far as drafting patterns go, I think that it’s a reasonable strategy. A lot of patternmakers will tell you that you can’t grade up from size 0 to size 28 without having multiple base sizes to start with. It’s the twin challenges of the normal variation of people’s sizes and builds, and then the fact that a lot of us are overweight these days and as you gain weight your physiognomy changes in a particular way: people get rounder around but generally their shoulder width doesn’t change much nor the length of their arms or their legs, etc. So it’s a legitimate drafting challenge, to make garments that fit both non-overweight and overweight people. So a line that aims at the 12-20 market, say, is more likely to be successful without multiple fit models, because most women in that range are in the ‘overweight but not obese’ category and share similar fit characteristics.

And then there’s our whole societal obsession/shame with fat, which effects how companies choose to market, etc…

February 6, 2015 at 10:02 am

Erika

Rossi’s have been my preferred workboot for years. Practical, hardwearing and comfortable from the start, none of the breaking in needed for Blundstones, Redbacks or other RM Williams. I’m slightly startled to see them as a possible fashion item, but it’s great to see well made Australian shoes getting wider recognition.

February 6, 2015 at 9:03 pm

Inge

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Moderator

It was our pleasure, Sylvia. And thanks for sharing the other outfit, absolutely marvelous too (and what a beautiful scarf).
Gradfashionista – I’d be a fan of those too.
Angie – Go for it;-)
Laura – Those are all very good points, thanks so much for sharing your thoughts.
Erika – The Rossi’s sound amazing for sure.

February 9, 2015 at 11:29 am

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