Sunday, 12 June 2011

Skirts

A skirt is a clothing that is worn below the waist and which covers all or part of the wearer's legs. A shirt is a garment worn to cover the upper part of one's body. Although traditionally a shirt is more specifically a garment with a collar, sleeves with cuffs, and a full vertical opening with buttons. This is known as a "button-down" shirt or dress shirt. However, with the passage of time many types of shirts as well as skirts have been invented. Some of these skirts and shirts or tops are inventions from India. Indians have adopted these western dresses to suit to their culture and traditions.

History of Skirts

Skirts are an age old clothing tradition not only for India but for other countries of Asia too apart from western countries. Men and women both had been wearing one or the other form of leg dress such as the lungi, kanga and sarong in countries like China, Thailand, Malaysia and other parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. In India too, women have been using lehengas which hang down from waistline till ankles. Beginning in1915, western skirts were long enough to touch the ground. The fashionable skirts became short in 1920s and then long again in 1930s. The cycle of skirts becoming longer and shorter kept on going till it became shortest of all during the 1960s. However, the Indian skirts have always favored the trends of being lengthy with a few exceptions in mid 1900s when the Bollywood actors brought the trend of short skirts. However, the common women of India never liked to wear skirts that were shorter than the knee length.

Basic Types of Skirts

The shapes and cuts of Indian skirts are not very different from western skirts. These basic types of skirts include
  • Straight skirt- also called a pencil skirt, it hangs straight from the hips, is fitted from the waist to the hips through darts or a yoke. It may have some pleats for ease of walking.
  • Full skirt- It has fullness gathered into the waistband
  • Short skirt- It is a skirt having hemline above the knee.
  • Bell-shaped skirt- When worn, it looks like a bell- narrower at the upper portion and wider below.
  • A-line skirt- It has a slight flare at the ankles and looks like the shape of a capital letter A
  • Pleated skirt-It has fullness which is reduced to fit the waist with the help of regular pleats. These pleats or folds can be stitched flat to hip-level or free-hanging.
  • Circular skirt- It is like a kali ghagra, cut in sections to make one or more circles with a hole for the waist. This makes the skirt very full but it also hangs smoothly from the waist without darts, pleats, or gathers.

Kurtis

Kurtis are the most ideal and comfortable wear. The specialty of Kurtis is that they can be counted as the Indo western wear and even the western wears. Indian Kurtis are having their own styling and also the best ever patterns which makes each and every Kurtis distinct and unique.





Halter Tops

  • Halter tops are a very casual summer style that's a little more revealing than a t-shirt or tank top. They feature ties or one piece of fabric connected at the nape of the neck, and show off a large part of the upper back.




Saturday, 11 June 2011

Tank Tops

The term tank tops were derived from the tops men wore in swimming pools. The 1970s version of the tank top was made from cotton and had slogans or decals on them. The most popular, however, still remained the solid white tank top.
This not only was comfortable for the women, but was pleasurable for the men to look at. Men caught on to the fashion craze in 1973, when popular rock icons began showing off their biceps by wearing these tank tops. About a year later, tank tops soon became a cliché.







V-Neck Tees for girls

Since Summer 2008 is almost here, I’m excited to say that this will probably be one of the last spring fashion trends that gets covered here on College Fashion!  That’s a good thing – make way for summer!
With the weather heating up across the country, flip flops are coming out of storage, skirts are getting shorter, and, surprise surprise: necklines are getting lower!
Today I want to tell you about one of the biggest trends this season: The V-Neck Tee. It’s been spotted on celebrities and fashion icons alike, and it’s a such a great basic to have in your wardrobe!
I’m currently obsessed with my new deep-v neck tees from American Apparel because they are very chic and can be worn so many different ways!  They’re casual cute with jeans and flats, or dressy with a skirt and heels. Did I mention they’re oh-so comfy? The perfect tee, I’m telling you!

Celebrity Inspiration

This is another trend that was inspired by celebrities.  I’m really loving how the celebs chose to wear this look.  From Mary-Kate Olsen’s dressed-down glam look, to Lauren Conrad’s cute and comfy style, one thing is clear: Hollywood loves their v-necks!

 

Cool Plus Sized Teen Clothes

It's a sad fact that those people in charge of designing and implementing teen fashions seem to have no real idea who their target audience is. Most of the time, they apparently have skinny stick-figures in mind, with no idea whatsoever that the average American girl's skeleton wouldn't fit into a Size 2 pair of jeans. Maybe a century ago those styles would have worked, but modern Americans tend to be quite a bit larger, in all dimensions, than their 19th-century counterparts.


  


Petite Jeans

Good things come in small packages, and petite jeans are no exception! Like with other special sizes, the internet has made marketing to “niche” markets a viable venture for most manufacturers.




Tight Jeans Long and Slender Revisited

There’s no avoiding them. Tight jeans are hot, so let’s deal with it. Here’s the low down on what this look strives for and some advise on how to approach it. Remember, just as lowrise jeans are not meant for everybody, skinny jeans aren’t either. I have to admit that I was skeptical about this style at first, but the more I see them, on the right bodies, the sexier and classier I find the tight jeans look to be.




What's more, you’ll find that the skinny jeans look in no way clashes with what we have discussed on our pages on “dressing for your body type”. The same principles of composition and balance apply. The slim look is being credited to the Brits, as actress Sienna Miller (now lending her name to a new line from Pepe Jeans) and model Kate Moss have been spotted with their sexy skinnies tucked in boots on several occasions. (This same look can be achieved with your older, tight fitting flared or bootcut jeans, by just tucking the bottom part of the leg into your boots, if you can live with the discomfort.) Come spring and summer, expect to see the extra tights matched with heels or sandals.

Low Rise Jeans

Low rise jeans does not refer to a “fit”, it is a specific cut. As is the case with boot cut jeans, it is a matter of “shape”, of "pattern", and is very widely misused. Any fit can have a regular or low cut waist, although not all will work well. Jeans with a low cut waist are almost always a tight fit and most often have boot cut or flared leg cuts. Although you are now beginning to see low cut skinnies too.



Embellished jeans

Embellished jeans are the rage this season. Again, nothing new here. In the sixties many young people were decorating their jeans with anything from applied patches, to hand embroidered designs, to drawing on them with a felt tip marker or even a “Bic” pen. The Woodstock counterculture adopted the working man's attire and adapted it with homegrown decorations.

In the 1970's, the sharp and clean cut disco fashion is imported from Europe, promptly displacing the unkempt hippy look. It was a time of tight bellbottoms with refined pocket decorations. The 1980's saw a comeback of the traditional cowboy image, metal studs and all.



It was in 1999, however, that Tom Ford presented his frayed, embroidered, low rise Gucci's in the Paris catwalks, going for a mere $3,500! The term "luxe hippie" is coined, and denim would never be perceived the same way again. This induction set the stage for the jeans revolution that we are living today.

Like so many other objects, the simple egalitarian blue jeans has reached levels of ornamentation (and price) that were unimaginable just a decade ago. The quality and sophistication of the decoration that we have seen these last couple of seasons are amazing! Possibly too much for some tastes, and pocket books, but sometimes trends have to swing far in one direction in order to eventually find their proper place.