Discover how to look good in the current fashion trends for April 2011
Keeping on top of the latest fashion and trends can be very confusing, particularly when you also want to compliment your body shape and budget, so take a look below at my recommendations for April.
Your letters and emails tell me that you want to try and incorporate the new fashion trends into your wardrobe, but feel they are difficult to wear and don’t always flatter your body type.
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If you want to learn more about how this season’s best styles for your individual and very special body shape have translated onto the high street, then take a look at this month’s fashion and accessories that I am recommending will work for you, along with my inspirational advice on how to maximise your look and easy to follow tips on how to dress for your shape.
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New fashion trends for every body shape this season
To illustrate this season’s collections, your favourite high street stores have created some practical and desirable interpretations of the current fashion trends, and that’s why I will choose specific brands and styles to answer your questions with each month in Ask Caryn.
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OK, here are my recommended buys for April...
Seventies Colour Block Chic
Prepare to take your wardrobe back to the future via a quick stop off in the 1970s. The 2011 summer of the ‘70s is all about putting your platforms forward glam disco style. This translates to luxe, languid looks in bejewelled colours and soft, slinky textures. This colour block jumpsuit from River Island has got the trend down with its easy, laid back yet sexy sensibility.
It shows you how you can make this trend work for you by teaming colourful separates – remember lights and brights draw attention to where ever they are placed – with dark (or neutral) pieces if you don’t want to go the whole colour-hog or want to cleverly draw attention away and to certain areas. This trend loves a party so up the ante after-dark with metallic platforms and accessories for that studio 54-vibe.
Love Label Colour Block jumpsuit
£32.00
Sizes 6-20
www.very.co.uk
Caryn says. To know more about how to dress for your body type download an e-book specially written by me for your individual body shape. Choosing the best clothes for you will become so much easier.
Get a little shirty…
Some dresses should come with a health warning. With a prescription of a nipped-in silhouette and v neck line that is fabulously flattering especially for curvaceous bodies, plus a cut that is timelessly chic, this dress is a fashion marvel that’ll save you anywhere anytime. Plus it’s anything but bland – the shirt dress is the frock du jour and this version, with its ‘70s inspired tone (yes the ‘70s again!) and slinky swathes is oh so now.
Simply slip it on for high impact with low effort. Heels or flats you decide. See we did warn you: You may get a little smitten.
Empire Coat Dress
£249.00
Sizes 8-16
Hobbs
If you want to know exactly what to wear to flatter your body shape, then treat yourself to an e-book specially written for you by me. This is styling advice that will last you a lifetime and save you money (you’ll never impulse buy again) and there are 19 different body shapes to choose from. One of them is just right for you.
All rise…the LWD
Nothing says chic and pulled together like a brilliant dress. This lace number from style369.com in the season’s hottest (non)colour could just well be your passport to summer’s ladylike elegance. Lace? Yes formerly the stuff of tablecloths and doilies, lace is back once again and has truly cemented its chic status. Trust us!
Clean lines are a must this spring/summer and this dress is fresh, crisp and its body skimming lines coolly compliment curves. Accessorize with a (fake) golden tan and leather accessories to keep it just off snow white.
White Max C Lace Dress
£55.00
Sizes 14-26
www.style369.com
Caryn says. To know more about how to dress for your body type download an e-book specially written by me for your individual body shape. Choosing the best clothes for you will become so much easier.
East is East
F-east your eyes on this beautiful coat from East. Extraordinarily embroidered, it has an instant outfit-smartening ability and will give any look a lift. The pattern detail is an irresistible balance of classic and contemporary which means that it’s an on-trend but that you’ll treasure it for seasons to come.
Its long lean line and curved-in waist also means it’s flattering and enhances natural curves or amplifies more slender shapes. Simply throw over your tailored pieces for a chic, elegant look (a block of darker shades or neutrals underneath will elongate). Or to really head east towards Trendsville, play with other prints, block with brights or do it with denim.
Phulkari Embroidered Long Coat
£199.00
Sizes S-XL
East
If you want to know exactly what to wear to flatter your body shape, then treat yourself to an e-book specially written for you by me. This is styling advice that will last you a lifetime and save you money (you’ll never impulse buy again) and there are 19 different body shapes to choose from. One of them is just right for you.
Fruit Bowl Fashion
This season fashion’s gone bananas. Or apples, oranges, lemons… Yes, designers have gone hungry for juicy fruit motifs in mouth-watering shades. You’ll find them on everything from dresses and skirts to blouses and shoes but it is the printed trouser that is the most fashion ripe. Spring is the season of the trouser with palazzo pants and flared legs at the top of the wish list, never mind their thigh-skimming and leg-elongating abilities.
But how to wear print – remember to match body volume to print volume - which roughly translates to - small and petite means restrained and moderate print, curvaceous and fulsome body requires voluptuous print to balance.
And let the trousers do all the work, keeping the rest simple in solid or neutral colours. A tailored jacket will give the look the right amount of structured edge for a relaxed chic look. If you like your look a little fruitier then add in some quirky accessories. They do count towards your five a day after all…
Be Beau Big Apple Print trousers
£20.00
Sizes 8-18
Matalan
Caryn says. To know more about how to dress for your body type download an e-book specially written by me for your individual body shape. Choosing the best clothes for you will become so much easier.
That’s all for this month's current fashion trends. Don’t forget to check ‘Ask Caryn’ where there are further questions answered and of course the ‘Ask Caryn archive’ where one of the questions answered might just be the solution you are looking for.
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