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What exactly should be in your wardrobe this summer, and what is better to throw out of the closet forever? Relax.by has compiled a guide for those who want to stay in trend and choose clothes wisely.
Summer 2018 trends
Sandals
Of course, it is obvious that sandals — one of the most practical options for summer shoes: flat, open and versatile. This season's fashion experts recommend pairing sandals even with formal looks, such as dress pants and office shirts. It is best to pay attention to non-trivial options: unusual textures, colors or decorative elements. This season, you can confidently choose sandals with fringes, metal studs and an abundance of straps.
Linen clothes
Breathable natural fabrics take the lead every summer. Linen is the favorite this year. Moreover, it is relevant for all wardrobe items: from dresses to suits. Nevertheless, it must be remembered that flax, with all the undeniable advantages — the material is capricious: it easily wrinkles and quickly loses its shape. In addition, when choosing linen dresses according to the figure, you should pay attention to the fit. — even with a slight discrepancy, the material is likely to be full.
Tweed suits
This material is not particularly typical for hot weather, but on cool days it is worth remembering this trend. Many people associate tweed suits and capes with expensive luxury items from high-profile fashion houses, but now there are affordable options in the mass market that can be easily included in your wardrobe. The most popular option on how to use the trend will be soft pink tweed jackets.
Jeans and shorts in the spirit of the 1980s
Yes, in the summer it is worth remembering mom jeans from the 1980s with a high waist, a loose fit and a 7/8 length. The summer trend involves options made from light denim. By the way, a denim jacket made of “aged” material or a vest in the same spirit will not hurt in the wardrobe either.
Pleating on the sleeves
The trend is especially relevant in the design of simple plain basic things. For example, a nude dress with pleated sleeves looks much more interesting and unusual. Particularly attractive in this trend is that an outfit with pleats can be chosen for any type of figure and any color type.
Bandana Tops
These are small textile tops that are tied at the front of the chest. True, it is better to pay attention to monochromatic options so that the active print does not distract attention from the rest of the things in the image. In addition, you need to choose the size of such tops with passion: even a little small, it will look more like a swimsuit, and a large one will not be able to emphasize the chest.
Bralettes
In fact, this is a variant of a bra without wires and tabs. But this season, it is especially fashionable to slightly open this seemingly intimate wardrobe detail. Bralettes in delicate shades are in fashion: from sky blue and pale pink to white. Lace options and models with active trim are held in high esteem. They are just created in order to slightly show and slightly open.
White embroidery on white fabric
If embroidery as a whole has already ceased to stay in the top of the most fashionable decorative solutions, then white embroidery on white material will be very popular this summer. It's all about restraint and even inconspicuousness of such a move. In this case, you want to look closely at the details, and things look stylish and discreet, while maintaining a sense of uniqueness. The trend is especially relevant for light white shirts that can be worn even to the office.
Bright pantsuits
This trend — probably the best thing that has happened to office fashion in recent times. In summer, trouser suits of bright colors and shades will be especially popular. And we are talking not only about trendy purple, but also bright shades of green, pink and yellow. Trouser suits are well suited for girls with any type of figure, if you choose the right length and find the right fit. Complementing the image with heeled sandals, you can get the best stylish office option.
Tropical prints
Note that we are not talking about any floral print, but about tropical motifs. You can pay attention to such a print when choosing absolutely any item for your wardrobe, whether it be a dress, blouses, trousers or even a bag.
Polka dot print in red and white combination
The pea print is considered classic, so it practically never goes out of fashion. But this summer, the combination of red and white will be especially popular. First of all, such a decision is relevant for dresses and sundresses, as well as feminine models of overalls or suits.
Wicker bags and hats
Woven bags in a variety of shapes, colors and sizes are gaining popularity every summer. The same goes for straw hats. This year, bright colors will be especially in place. The trend is favored by many due to its environmental friendliness and the possibility of combining such bags and hats with romantic summer looks. However, it is worth remembering that the office dress code does not include such accessories.
Antitrends of summer 2018
Ripped jeans
Yes, grandmas are cheering because ripped jeans with holes at the knees are finally out of fashion. This summer they will no longer be honored. Either way, ripped jeans have been a controversial option almost forever. It is worth noting that the anti-trend did not touch jeans with scuffs. — they can still and even should be included in the wardrobe, especially if they are made of aged material.
For many, it has already become boring over the past year, when almost every mass-market collection included a mandatory line of items with embroidery. Especially "tired" of the usual roses that appeared on jeans, dresses, jackets, trench coats and everything that came to hand. Fatigue from last year's trend has resulted in the fact that this summer they prefer bright, but plain things.
If last summer passed almost under the sign of the popularity of chokers, then this season they are no longer favored. Fashionistas who love jewelry and want to focus on the neck are advised to choose ordinary chains with pendants. And the more inconspicuous and modest, the better.
Pants with stripes
Pants with stripes, which girls began to wear not only with sneakers and sneakers, but even with classic pumps and stiletto sandals, have lost popularity. This trend was initially considered quite controversial and risky, so it did not last long. Nevertheless, more feminine and romantic options are welcome in the summer.
Despite all the practicality and convenience of such an accessory, backpacks left the list of trends in the spring, and by the summer they successfully moved to the list of anti-trends. On the shelves of stores and in the portfolio of designers is still full of a variety of options for backpacks, but experts suggest that they will completely disappear in the next month. — out of sight.
Cork wedge
Yes, cork wedge sandals are sure to be in the wardrobe of almost any girl. But this season it is better to forget them in the closet. At the same time, wedge shoes are still in fashion, only cork as a material has ceased to be relevant.
And again, comfortable and practical shoes did not appeal to the followers of fashion at all. Instead, girls are advised to wear classic low-heeled pumps or sandals that are especially relevant this summer.
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Where did the fashion for ripped jeans come from and why are ripped jeans still popular?
The story of ripped jeans is the story of the most natural style of clothing imaginable.
What is now considered a trend and sold in stores (sometimes quite expensive) was once seen as the exact opposite of style and fashion.
This happens with every jeans and clothing in general. What starts as a tiny scuff grows into a decent sized hole.
And in the end, a hole appears on the jeans, and then numerous followers of this "style" arose.
But the original torn jeans were simply the result of excessive wear.
Until the 1970s, ripped jeans were mostly worn by the poor, working class. They just couldn't afford to part with their jeans, otherwise there would be nothing to wear at all.
Instead of being thrown away, people will continue to wear old things until they become more and more useless.
Nobody wants, among other things, to pay extra money for new pants because of some defects in clothes.
As for the 70s, clothes played a big role in people's self-expression.
Entire groups of people arose, dressed in accordance with their political and spiritual convictions.
Some wore torn jeans with pride, and deliberately covered them with holes or expressive stains.
They believed that it would be a sign of humility and life choices. These people were not losers, they simply protested against the war for the sake of peace, for the sake of rights and freedoms. And they preferred to wear very casual clothes like that. Thanks hippie.
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“Well, what are you like from debts,” grandfather sighs when my sister and I cross the threshold of the house in torn jeans. - "It will be necessary to allocate from your pension for patches." And I generally keep quiet about the neighbor grandmothers. In a word, they do not approve of this wardrobe item. But outside the window it is already spring-spring, and the hands themselves are drawn to them - torn jeans.
History of occurrence
The fashion for ripped jeans appeared rapidly in the second half of the 19th century due to the non-conformism of representatives of various subcultures. Initially, the rebels of hippies and punks defiantly put on a worn-out thing, thereby showing disregard for society. Of course, a little later they began to “age” jeans on purpose: they rubbed them with graters and bricks and cut them lengthwise and across.
Designers quickly picked up this popular wave and began to produce ripped jeans on an industrial scale. Although ripped jeans have been in fashion for more than 50 years, some older generations are still surprised: “Well, how can ripped jeans cost the same or more ????”. Initially, the price was determined by the fact that manual labor was used in the manufacture of jeans, because tearing them beautifully is quite difficult. And then… Marketing is such marketing.
We select torn jeans according to the figure
Everyone knows that properly selected jeans (and indeed any clothing) are able to emphasize the advantages and hide the flaws. Ripped jeans are no exception. In addition to the cut, you need to take into account the number and location of these very holes, otherwise you can ruin everything.
Girls with large hips are better off wearing tight denim jeans with the least number of holes.
Tall and slender fit any style, but very ripped skinny jeans will look especially impressive.
Jeans with vertical cuts will decorate full girls, visually stretching the figure and reducing a few kilograms.
When choosing ripped jeans, pay attention to color, fabric density and details (pockets, stitching, rivets) - all this will help to correct the nuances of the figure.
What to wear with ripped jeans
When compiling any set with ripped jeans, stylists advise you to follow the rule: the more holes on them, the more concise the top of your outfit should be.
Ripped jeans go great with grunge style. A leather jacket with an abundance of studs, studs or chains and an asymmetric loose T-shirt will create an interesting and memorable look paired with them.
You can wear ripped jeans with classic clothes. Having picked up a shirt and a jacket for them, you definitely will not go unnoticed.
For a walk on a cool evening, you can add jeans with a light pullover or a long sleeveless coat. The latter looks especially impressive.
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But it is important to remember: the top should not be voluminous, otherwise it is very easy to break the proportions of the body.
Irina Ziganshina
My husband is against this fashion for a very simple reason: why purposely tear jeans if they will tear someday, so to speak, in a natural way?
Imagine my surprise when I read confirmation of his thoughts in an article about this strange phenomenon, published by journalist Marie-Helene Miauton in the Swiss newspaper Le Temps. Here are just a few paragraphs from it:
“Fashion is designed in such a way that it is quickly imposed and becomes dictatorial for those who think that with its help he is more individualized, when in fact the opposite happens. Designers every year appoint a color that will become the symbol of the year, play with the length or width of the skirts, this is their job. But to make holes in clothes is certainly contrary to their natural vocation. That's why the denimdestroy fashion, which has become a cult, sends a special message that says a lot about our society."
“To emphatically wear the clothes of a poor man precisely because you are rich, and to invest in damaged goods is a social obscenity bordering on cynicism. Of course, young people don't think about it, they only follow fashion and we would be wrong to blame them."
“What does this fashion show us, if not an affluent society that disguises itself as what it is not, with a pretense of rejecting what it really is? We are rich, and therefore we disguise ourselves as the poor, acquiring already aged clothes. We are honest, and therefore we liken ourselves to American gangsters. We live in a hygiene-obsessed society and that's why we wear grunge, which means dirty. Thus, young people think they are revolutionaries or at least rebels, but this does not deceive anyone, since clothes cannot make a monk out of you ... "
“In addition, this trend is the opposite of the great environmental concern that has gripped our society, both young and old, and which affects politicians, entrepreneurs, bankers, distributors and manufacturers ... Agree, there is nothing more opposed to the concept of sustainability than trousers, which are damaged before being sold in order to cost even more! To deliberately pierce an entire fabric is a true obscenity towards the environment.”
“In fact, if fashion goes astray, it is because society goes astray, acquiring a psychotic desire to distort reality, to deny what constitutes it, its beliefs, its past and, therefore, its future. This refusal to accept oneself testifies to poor health, a denial of self-love, which is characteristic of a depressive state, sometimes prone to self-destruction ... "
“When the actions are aligned with the words, then the natural wear holes will reappear on the jeans!” - sums up the author.
Well, that is a complete perversion! - you can exclaim after my husband. However, in reality, everything turned out to be somewhat more complicated.
If you think carefully, then to the list of the Swiss journalist you can also add the ancient postulate that people can be inspired literally anything, including the fashion for the ugly. And what is likely is that fashion houses simply have a crisis of the genre, since they can’t come up with anything more positive than deliberate raggedness.
But on the other hand, is it possible to talk about the fashion for torn jeans in isolation from the super-stable fashion for many decades for just jeans?!
But this fashion at one time was truly revolutionary. Jeans in the days of hippies (1960-70s) became not just a piece of clothing, but a symbol of freedom!
Including in the USSR. This is where they were really worn out to holes, because real American ones were very expensive - about one average salary of an average Soviet employee.
They were taken care of, they were carefully hemmed, they were lovingly patched ...
In our thoroughly militarized country, they served as a counterbalance to military propaganda, with its invariably ironed and trim servants. No wonder it was the military and officials who especially hated young people in jeans.
Including, by the way, they also served as a symbol of freedom of sex, such an important attribute of the hippie movement.
“Ripped jeans are an example of self-affirmation, as they are ideally suited to show off the body. The idea of clothes - as an erotic theater - did not arise from the first "holes", but much earlier, with the frenzied popularity of jeans, which, after the sexual revolution of the 60s, offered a universal way to express the revolutionary content in fashion.
Jeans combined not just democracy and convenience, but introduced a tight-fitting “format”, which in the male version meant “demonstration” of the hips, buttocks and (of course) the penis. In this sense, jeans became a form of "socialization of the penis", which was presented to society with the advent of (so-called) "work" clothing.
Fashionable "rubbing" in the area of calves and fly had a frankly erotic meaning (any Soviet person remembers this very well), associating, rather, not with labor, but with love. In the country of "workers and peasants" jeans were a bohemian attribute that had nothing to do with work. "Abrasions" added "volume" to male (in this case) forms; and this erotic "breakthrough" in demonstrating the body - it is not by chance that it became a world epidemic.
It was then that the rejection of the concept of “good-quality” social-status clothing (three-piece suits) in favor of “sexual volume” was actively supported by the male population of the planet, since sexuality (and the demonstration of the penis) for men turned out to be a more important priority than the demonstration of status.
A natural feature of the post-revolutionary world of the 60s, where physicality, sexuality, eroticism competed with the traditional social hierarchy.
Sexuality destroyed the hierarchy - with which even the moneybags were forced to agree. The fashion for "ageism" was parallel to the fashion for the "demonstration" of the sexual body. Therefore, the elite in droves began to chase not status clothes, but status “forms”.
Needless to say, this trend has received a new development in "tattered" jeans.
Today they not only fit the body, but also demonstrate it. (The owner is free to choose - in what places). Wide models did not take root, because they ceased to perform the main function: to emphasize the figure. At one time, jeans tried to “slide” over the hips, but this also had its inconveniences in everyday life. There was a "cooking" period with pumice in the boilers, which led directly to the appearance of "holes". But when the “jeans” began to “tear”, it harmoniously combined three points: comfort to wear, silhouette and demonstration of the body (with ventilation as a bonus) ...
In general, "walk, flaw!" - the slogan of global fashion.) And this body-positive is the best way to demonstrate the optimism of the sexy young world - and his faith in himself ... "
Agree that this view of "tattered fashion" is, of course, much more positive than the Swiss one.
A bright and spectacular part of the women's wardrobe is ripped jeans, which are comfortable at any time of the year. They easily become part of any style. In jeans with holes, you can safely walk in the evenings, go on dates, go shopping in them.
To the office in ripped jeans is also easy. It is important to understand what to combine with and how many holes are acceptable. You can find out where holes can be on jeans and what to wear them with in our article.
Where can there be holes?
Designers see their ripped jeans differently. Some people prefer a few holes, such as on the knees, while others prefer super-holey jeans.
On the knees
Perhaps the most common option for the location of holes. Holes at the knees may be barely visible, like thin stripes with a fringe. But most fashionistas prefer medium-sized holes at the level of the kneecap. Such holes are decorated with a long or shortened fringe. There are options when threads of different lengths are casually distributed throughout the hole.
Behind
Jeans torn at the back can make your look stylish, or they can tell about the hostess's complete lack of taste. Holes at the back, distributed along the entire height of the leg, are less popular than holes in the buttocks.
In the area of the buttocks
Holes in the buttocks area can be located both on the pockets of the product, and on the jeans themselves directly. Let's face it, jeans with holes in the buttocks do not look aesthetically pleasing.
If you make horizontal holes with torn edges on the pockets at the back, then it will look beautiful and stylish.
Asynchronously ahead
Holes distributed randomly along the entire length of the jeans look bright and defiant. They are worn in everyday life for walking or outdoor recreation.
It is important to know that for plus-size women, ripped straight-cut jeans with vertical small holes will be an ideal option.
For skinny girls fit jeans with horizontal slits. In any case, feel free to experiment.
Models with a high waist
The high waist is back in trend. What is the reason for the return of these jeans to the catwalks? These models emphasize the waistline and focus on it.
To look spectacular in these jeans, learn how to choose the right wardrobe items.
So, for example, wear high-waisted ripped jeans to a party with a plain blouse. As an accessory, choose soft beads and / or a bracelet.
Curvy girls should be careful with high-waisted jeans because they can add volume to the abdomen and waistline.
High-waisted jeans come in a variety of colors, from classic blues and light blues to vibrant hues. They can be decorated with prints, stripes with beads or rhinestones. These jeans look especially impressive when you roll them up, showing the whole world the beauty of your ankles.
Decor
Fashionable and embellished things are doubly pleasant to wear, that's why the designers have prepared for us stripes in the form of rhinestones, beads and lace to create a feminine and bright bow.
With lace
Natural, cotton lace looks spectacular. Lace decor can be of various lengths and sizes. Here the imagination of designers is limitless. Thin stripes along the edge or large lace patches, along the ankle line or on the pockets, sewn on with a straight seam or a zigzag seam.
Lace sewn from the inside under the hole is also a spectacular decor for your jeans. Lace of any color will look seductive.
with beads
As another decoration for ripped jeans, designers offer beads. These can be single-color plastic beads of medium size, there can be multi-colored beads. There are models with pearl beads, which looks especially elegant.
Beads can be unevenly distributed along the entire length of the leg or create a certain pattern, for example, in the form of a flower. In most ripped jeans, beads are sewn on the edge of the holes, which makes your jeans even brighter and more interesting.
With rhinestones
The brightest and most unusual models of ripped jeans are models with rhinestones and crystals. Rhinestones, playing with different colors in the sun or sparkling in the light of spotlights at a disco, will make their owner the queen of the day.
So, how do you choose the right ripped jeans and still be stylish? Just take our advice.
- Pay attention to the density of the fabric. Holes on thin denim will be less effective than on dense denim.
- If you love flared jeans, opt for vertical rips. Otherwise, horizontal holes will be lost on the extended bottom.
- Horizontal rips on skinny jeans will look spectacular only when the jeans themselves fit you. If your skinny is tight, then the gaps will increase, and your jeans will no longer look spectacular.
- To make your figure look even slimmer, choose high-waisted jeans according to the size.
- In branded jeans, on the back of the rivet, as well as on the buttons, there is a label of the manufacturer, nothing is written on fake jeans.
- The back pocket of any branded jeans is decorated with stitching.
- The zipper fastener in high-quality jeans is always made of metal of various colors in accordance with the designers' idea.
- The zipper should be supplemented with a latch so as not to unfasten at the wrong moment.
- Turn the leg inside out, look at the seams. They must be tight and tucked up, otherwise the seams will open on the first wash.
- Take a white cloth, a handkerchief, moisten and wipe the leg. This is how you will know if your jeans will shed.
What to wear?
Cloth
Rule of thumb for ripped jeans: the simpler the top of your bow, the more effective you look.
An elegant blouse in warm colors or with a small print, sandals will make your look romantic. Add a clutch or a small handbag with a long strap to this look.
Keep the proportions of negligence and style will help a beautiful top and sandals. Emphasis on the ankles thanks to sandals will add femininity to your look.
A long-sleeve T-shirt (long sleeve) and ripped jeans are a bold combination. Yellow, red, blue shades combined with a boho-style bag - your spectacular bow will not go unnoticed.
Remember that when creating any style of clothing, adhere to the "rule of three colors", do not overload your image with small details.
Stockings or pantyhose are not acceptable for ripped jeans, because this style involves showing off beautiful female legs, not hosiery
Accessories
If you chose ripped jeans, then you should give up big and powerful accessories. Otherwise, the focus of your bow will shift from jeans to an accessory. You should also abandon the wide belt. It is better to choose bags of light shades. Replace your usual briefcase bag with a backpack for a casual style.
