Reviews of the latest trends in women's designer fashion
Fall 2006
It’s time to usher out the lightweight fabrics of summer and get ready to greet the crips fall air. Today’s top fashion designers are ready with updated styles to help you look your best this fall. Glorious tweeds and rich velveteen’s are mixed and matched with brocades and fur to bring a sense of royalty to the season. Gone are the lightweight percale and simple swiss cottons and linens that signified summer. Ushered in with a sense of purpose are wool gabardine and cashmere. Playful plaids and flannel, soft velvet and argyle sweaters become a daily staple and casual jeans...
One of the things I can’t ever get enough of is handbags. I know that some think I’m crazy but I can’t help it. I think that handbags are like shoes, and the perfect handbag, like the perfect shoe, can really compliment an outfit. I’ve just seen an Isabella Fiore clutch in a lovely jewel-toned fabric with sequin trim and beads, and I gotta have it. But there’s that lovely caramel croc-embossed leather Donald J. Pliner handbag that I want too, and that Dooney & Bourke stretch slouch. I want them all. Think I can’t have all of them? Think again....
Most of us aren’t size 4, or 6, or even 8. The average American woman wears a size 14. Sometimes it’s hard for us to find comfortable and flattering fashions when we’re plus size. Although trends are changing and more designers are creating clothes for plus size women, some of these new styles are still too matronly. Thank goodness for Catherine’s. Catherine’s specializes in trendy styles for plus, petite plus and extended plus sizes. And these styles they carry are up to the minute and stylish. No tent dresses and no yards and yards of unflattering fabrics. Catherine’s styles are fashioned...
There isn’t a more American fabric than denim, and there isn’t a better time to wear denim than fall. Although we prefer our fall/winter denim on the dark side, the designers are offering up a multitude of demin washes and cuts. Boot legs are in, and skinny legs are in. Here are just some of the many denim offerings from some of today’s hottest designers, 7 for all Mankind, Citizens of Humanity, True Religion, Paige Denim, Rock & Republic, Earnest Sewn and Diesel. Visit our Where We Shop page to find the best deals on the latest denim styles! Link to this post!...
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