I have just moved to a new city, and do not have any realistic looking gentlemen on hand to pose for the male trends, or take pictures of me dressing up in the female trends, so please excuse these photos that I ripped from the internet of unrealistic people wearing the trends I describe.
Women's Clothing
Luxury Street or Sport Wear
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| This woman did not actually go to the gym, she just wants you to think she did |
What is it? This is the high end version of what you would roll out of the bed wearing, or what you would wear to the gym. That means hoodies, sweat pants, graphic leggings, and sporty looking outfits.
The Good: Luxury street wear and athletic clothing is legitimately comfortable, easy to wear, and easy to move in.
The Bad: The Juicy Valor Track Suit is one of the most tasteless trends of the 2000's and it is easy to find oneself in such a track suit when sweats shirts and sweat pants are in style. Luxury street wear is an expensive imitation of something meant to be affordable, and luxury sport wear is not something you can actually work out in. There is something disingenuous about this.
How to wear it: Maintain balance. Wear a chunky graphic sweatshirt skinny jeans, or leggings. Pair sweatpants with a form fitting, or cropped top and a jacket with a distinctive structure.
Velvet
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| This model likes her legs, which is why she covered them in velvet, or maybe she just likes soft things. |
The Good: This fabric will keep you warm in the winter, and is distractingly soft and fun to touch. The color will look different from different angles and in different light. The effect emphasizes the folds in the fabric and is very interesting to look at. Velvet has an association with luxury and elegance.
The Bad: They way velvet reflects light makes it hard to hide any flaws under velvet. Too much velvet can look heavy, add volume, and resemble old people's curtains.
How to wear it: The beauty of this fabric is how its folds look in the light. You can capitalize on this by wearing a cowl neck, flowy sleeves, a flowy skirt, or even bell bottoms made of velvet. Anything that can move around a bit will look interesting in the light. You can also wear it in a form fitting way over parts of your body you want to show off.
Inspired by 100-1000 years ago
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| Now you are ready to conquer the World, or binge watch Game of thrones. |
The Good: This trend leaves a lot of room for interpretation, which means people can follow it in their own way. Also you get to impersonate Cersei Lannister in your clothing.
The Bad: The trend may be difficult to tone down and translate into something reasonable to wear on a normal day. Also Cersei Lannister is a terrible person.
How to wear it: Wear velvet, wear lace, wear long gloves, wear ornate or metallic patterns. Just remember to make the rest of your outfit understated to avoid looking like you are playing dress up.
Shearling Jackets
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| The leather makes it badass, but the fuzzy makes it soft and full of love |
What is it? It is a leather, or fake leather jacket, with a fuzzy inside that is often visible at the cuffs and neck.
The Good: These are warm, practical, and can easily look badass.
The Bad: The fuzzy lining makes these somewhat bulky. If you are small like me, it can be difficult to wear this without being somewhat overwhelmed by the amount of material, especially if you are wearing warm layers underneath.
How to wear it: This is a jacket, you wear it over your clothing when you go outside. I wouldn't plan outfits around something you only wear outside. If you feel compelled to plan your outfit around your jacket, wear a form fitting under layer and some dark form fitting pants with an interesting geometric pattern.
Layering
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| This is basically normal layering done backwards |
What is it? You know when you wear one layer of clothing on top of another. Though in this specific trend it is more than just piling clothing on. The trend generally involves wearing those slip dresses, that were popular in the spring, or anything strappy and insubstantial, over a sweater.
The Good: This sort of layering, is still layering, which will keep you warm, and allow you to adapt to changing temperatures. Also it lets you wear clothing you would normally only wear in the summer for more of the year.
The Bad: This style requires embracing looking a bit weird in the name of fashion.
How to wear it: Wear a form fitting, neutral colored sweater or long sleeve shirt under an interesting shirt or dress with skinny or no straps, you would normally only wear in the summer. This will look best if the color of the two layers pair nicely, such as black and white. For extra fashion points (whatever that means) use a sweater with the shoulders cut out, or a long sleeved shirt meant to be worn off the shoulder.
Women's Makeup Trends
For those of you that like putting goop on your face to look pretty, here are some new ways to put goop on your face that the fashion hire ups seem to think would be a good idea.
The Badass Who Maybe Has Some Goth Friends Look
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| Note the random eyeliner scribbles, yes kids random eyeliner scribbles=fashion. My hair is flipped because they got a bit too scribbly on the other eye |
This is a combination of a popular eye make up, jewelry, and lipstick trend. No need to rock them all at the same time. This 'look' is composed of graphic eyeliner, a choker and a dark lip. By graphic eyeliner, I mean noticeable eyeliner in interesting shapes. This could be an above and below the eye cat eye, or it could mean drawing a bunch of straight lines around your eye with an eyeliner stick until something looks cool. A choker is a little necklace worn directly against the neck, sort of choking you, hence the name choker. Some people are wearing black lipstick. This will make your lips look rather small. To avoid this effect, or if you are not ready to revisit your goth stage from high school, I suggest trying dark reds and dark purples. This can still look edgy and mysterious, without looking like the mistress of darkness (unless that is what you were going for).
The Person Who Played in the Snow and Returned Perfectly Made Up
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| It is 95 degrees out, but let's just pretend I played in the snow and emerged wearing a ton of mascara. |
Men's Clothing
While men do not have the same opportunity to experiment with fashion, I still highly encourage all of you well dressed, or aspiring to be well dressed man creatures to try out any of the fall trends here that look interesting to you.
Military Jackets
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| Dear Men, Please wear this. Please |
What are they? These are meant to be old school military style jackets, what a general or young well dressed revolutionary might have worn in the 1800's. Large lapels, double breasted, navy colors, or ornamentation are some ideas of what to expect in these jackets.
The Good: These jackets look very cool and powerful, who doesn't want to look cool and powerful?
The Bad: Military style can be a bit severe, or a bit too much material to carry on a smaller frame. And maybe some of you actually don't like looking cool and powerful.
How to Wear it: It is a jacket, you wear it over your clothing when you go outside. If you want to coordinate with it, slim fit dark pants, maybe in a deep shade of red even, will look good with the jacket.Fuzzy Jackets
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| I question whether this man actually fought a bear for this jacket. |
What are they? Maybe you are not into this military jacket thing. Maybe you would rather look like you fought a bear, killed it, and are now wearing it as a warning to any other bears who might cross your path. Well then these jackets are for you, they are jackets made of fur, or with fur accents. Please opt for fake fur, and please do not actually kill any bears for your winter wear.
The Good: These are quite warm, soft, and bold jackets, especially the ones that are all fur.
The Bad: These are rather bold and ostentatious. If you do not want to call too much attention to yourself this is not the jacket for you. Also this trend may encourage more people to buy real fur.
How to Wear it: People will not likely notice much other than the furry jacket. As long as you do not wear ludicrous attention grabbing pants, you should be fine. For a more subtle look just opt for a jacket with a fuzzy lapel.
Shiny
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| Look shiny isn't scary. You can start with leather accents if it is less intimidating. |
What is it? This trend encompasses slightly shiny fabrics, metal accents, and yes even sequins.
The Good: The shiny fabric can either be subtle or flashy depending on what you choose to wear. It can make on outfit look more fancy, and can be paired with matte colors to create interesting effects or draw someone's eye to specific places.
The Bad: Most men are not ready for sequins. Shiny fabrics can look cheap and tacky. Even worse they can make it look like you are trapped in an 80's music video.
How to Wear it: A good place to start is with suits or pants made of shinier fabrics. If you want to be adventurous and try very shiny fabrics, just incorporate the shine into details in your clothing. Maybe a jacket has shiny sleeves, or a shiny lapel. A good rule to follow is the more shiny fabric you wear at once, the less shiny the fabric itself should be.
Baggy Suits
What is it? These are loose fitting, even flowing suits.
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| Dear Men, Please do not give up the skinny suit for this. Fight the power! |
The Bad: This may open the door to men just wearing ugly ill fitting suits. Those of you that rocked the skinny suit, may see them falling out of style.
How to Wear it: This is just a style of suit, you can still rock any color that you would usually. You may want to avoid patterns because you will resemble old people curtains. Make sure the suit fits you properly. Just because he fit is looser and flows is no excuse to wear a dumpy ill fitting suit.
Copper
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| He is clearly happy about his color coordinating skills. |
The Good: Looks good on a variety of skin tones, is a pleasant warm color, can be paired with other colors.
The Bad: Looks bad if your skin is close to the color of your clothing.
How to Wear it: You can wear as much or as little copper as you want. It will look good with deep blues or grays which will balance the color, warm reds or yellows which will compliment the warmth of the color, and tans and browns, which will be neutral.
Trends are an artificial and trends can convince people to wear ugly and ludicrous things. But trends also introduce new ideas and variety into fashion. So use these for inspiration, rock what you like, but don't take them too seriously, only some will survive the winter.
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