https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-notes-from-munich Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Mon, 11 May 2026 18:14:32 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-notes-from-munich#post-30985 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:37:35 +0000 Violet 30985@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for the detailed report. It's fun to hear about fashions in other countries. Can't wait to see pictures! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-notes-from-munich#post-30917 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:38:06 +0000 eternalvoyageur 30917@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ah Munchen is very stylish. Even the tourists there dress their best !<br /> However the purple gets me down. This year the stores had lots of it, and I look hideous in it. The other choices they had were yellow (which is unflattering on me) and black (which I don't war because too many Germans do), so all I had left was green.<br /> I wonder is it like that in other countries too ? I mean having only a few fashionable colours in the stores... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-notes-from-munich#post-29282 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:28:02 +0000 Sihaya 29282@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Antje - welcome back. It was so fun to read about the styles and I can't wait to see pictures of you in your new treasures as well as from the streets of Munchen. Very interesting about the drindl's - who'd have thought? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-notes-from-munich#post-29259 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:26:14 +0000 anne 29259@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Pinafores/jumper have been a big look here too (Australia). Any Aussies see the program "The Hollowmen". Someone seemed to be wearing that style most weeks. I like that look, and would have worn it this winter is I hadn't been breastfeeding. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-notes-from-munich#post-29219 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:31:43 +0000 kellygirl 29219@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I agree! Great fun reading about the fashion trends in Europe. Thanks for posting. I'm looking forward to your pictures too! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-notes-from-munich#post-29217 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:20:56 +0000 Laura 29217@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Antje, thank you so much. That report was like a glass of fresh water to a person dying of thirst in the desert (did I just say that about the state of fashion in the Midwest??) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-notes-from-munich#post-29207 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:44:55 +0000 Amanda 29207@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Antje -- thanks for the style report; it's so fun to be "in the know" on European fashion. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-notes-from-munich#post-29200 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:32:07 +0000 Angie 29200@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Glad to have you back! Greg was in Munich for work a few weeks ago too. Pre October-Festing actually! </p> <p>A fab report! Thank you. The look is VERY Euro, what can I say. This is the type of style I constantly see in Amsterdam, London and Paris as the weather begins to chill (minus the “tracht”!) It’s been all about skinnies and boots for almost 3 years. But skirts and boots have always been big in Europe. Converse too! Yay! Happy Dance! LOVE! </p> <p>(I want a cropped red leather biker jacket. Tall order I know. But I am hopeful).</p> <p>The dresses you saw are what I call pinafores. In the US, they call them jumpers (but jumpers to me are sweaters, while sweaters are sweat shirts). Semantics! Love that look. </p> <p>Can’t wait to see your new goodies! I want those cracked red patent riding boots. *swoon*. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-notes-from-munich#post-29198 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:22:56 +0000 Tanya 29198@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ha, my brain is working so poorly today that it did not even occur to me that you omitted a letter </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-notes-from-munich#post-29197 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:20:35 +0000 Antje 29197@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oopsie, good catch, Tanya, "tea" was supposed to be "teal". Corrected now! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-notes-from-munich#post-29195 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:17:04 +0000 Tanya 29195@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow Antje, thank you for the fab and very interesting report! I have spent a summer in Munich 13 years ago and really loved the city, it was beautiful.</p> <p>Seems like their is an abundance of the micro check pants there, I wish it were the same here. And, what color is "tea"?</p> <p>I can't wait for your photos, especially of your fab new Euro goodies. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fashion-notes-from-munich#post-29193 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:12:02 +0000 Antje 29193@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I just came back from a brief business trip to Munich and wanted to share some notes on fashion and styles I observed. It was an awesome five days; Munich is soooo beautiful, and the weather was pretty nice so I spent a few of my non-working hours outside strolling through the pedestrian zone, shopping, and people watching. Here are the trends I saw – many of them familiar, some of them different, some of them more pronounced than here in the US.</p> <p>• Boots boots boots, with skinnies and skirts. I saw so many amazing boots over skinnies and with skirts, it was definitely the biggest and fabbest trend. I drooled over a lot of them, including a pair of deep red cracked patent leather riding boots. Skinnies were everywhere, rarely a boot cut in sight. Skirts were very popular as well, both pencil and shorter A-lines with some pleats in fall fabrics like tweed, herringbone, houndstooth.<br /> • The color purple. Purple was the biggest color in addition to lots of black and grey. There were several small boutiques that literally didn’t carry things in colors other than black, grey and purple. Secondary colors were fuchsia, teal, mustard yellow and green. Very little red and blue, and not as much brown and beige as in previous fall/winter seasons.<br /> • Micro check pants with Converse. This was the other “uniform” amongst hip city gals. If they weren’t wearing skinnies with boots they were most likely wearing micro checks with fashion sneakers. I saw a lot of “pimped up” Converse, e.g. with patent or faux croc uppers. Fun!<br /> • Cropped leather jackets and tailored coats. As outerwear, the two biggest trends were cropped leather jackets (sooo fab, as I know many of you agree with) and tailored coats, many of them in herringbone but not just in the more traditional black/grey/white but often in bright colors like purple or green. Loved those and was quite tempted (all my own fall and winter jackets are black or dark grey, so I was very intrigued, but I really couldn’t justify spending money on a new coat.) And of course everyone wore great scarves.<br /> • Knit vests and v-necks over button-downs. This was quite prevalent and looked fun and fab in a preppy way.<br /> • Denim skirts over black tights. This was a look I hadn’t seen in the US, but I saw it both in stores and on the streets in Munich. The denim skirts were straight and above the knee, in medium blue wash. It’s a look that’s harder to pull off, but I saw it work well on a few women.<br /> • Sleeveless winter dresses over button downs or turtle necks. I think there is a word that better describes this than the generic “dress”; it was definitely intended to only be worn over something. A very stylish look, loved it.</p> <p>Finally, of course there was a lot of “Tracht”, the traditional Bavarian dress. Since I was there at the height of Octoberfest, there were more Dirndls (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirndl" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirndl</a>) and Lederhosen out on the streets than usual (though you do see them in Munich at any time of year), and I saw a lot of very traditional ones as well as updated ones. I even learned a new phrase: ”pimp your Dirndl”, which refers to taking a traditional Dirndl and styling it in a way that is hip and fashionable. The Dirndl has become quite a “fashion item” again in recent years, and women whom I would never expected to own a Dirndl, like my very hip and trendy colleague in Munich, sport a “pimped” Dirndl for special events.</p> <p>I definitely caused some damage to my wallet in Munich, shopping for button downs at Ludwig Beck (a high end department store in the center of the city), Mexx, and local boutiques in Schwabing; no-wool cardi and other knits at Zara; and a shoe store where I got booties. Now that I’m back and not travelling for while, I’ll set up the new camera and finally post a few fall outfit pictures. </p> <p>Munich was wonderful – if anyone gets a chance to go, let me know and I can give you some tips on good shopping areas (and sightseeing, too, of course :-))! </p>