FAR from looking plain, plaid can be an interestingly playful pattern.
With the school girl fad going on (thanks to Gossip Girl), you can only look forward to seeing more of the prints.
There are so many possibilities to explore tartan with this season that a girl could go utterly mad for plaid. There are oodles of bold plaids, Scottish plaids, glen plaids, color block plaids, box plaids, and argyles out there to go completely bonkers over. This fabric has a wonderful classic kind of quirkiness to it, if you know how to wear it the right way.
Accessories are the obvious choice to just test-run a pattern, but today’s fashionable add-ons go much further than a run-of-the mill scarf. Burberry may have started the trend, but run, don’t walk, to catch a pair of plaid kitten heel boots or sexy tartan slingbacks that abound in most trendy shoe salons. Or, opt for a totebag, satchel, or purse- like a wool tartan shoulder bag from Dolce & Gabbana, fuzzy gloves, crusher hats, or patterned jewelry that boosts more than a hint of this print.
While body size doesn’t really matter when it come to accessorizing with plaid, it certainly is a major consideration when it comes to clothing. One of the most heinous fashion faux pas’ is wearing super tight plaid pants that yank around your tush to distort the pattern into an outsized grin-ouch! A smooth fit is optimum with pattern, as is using it to play a discreet game of body shape hide and seek.
Stay clear of any heavyweight fabric close to your body unless you want to put on a quick ten pounds. Keep the bulky fabrics to shawls and accessories and be mad about figure-skimming lightweight plaids. A lightweight plaid flood pant adds dimension to a top-heavy figure without piling on too much bulk to your lower half.
Be selective with plaid and wear only one pattern at a time, if you are extremely fashionably adroit, mix complementing plaids, but keep some distance between them.
Try to also scale the size of the plaid to your body type, a smaller frame can wear a graphic plaid, but would be drowned in a big plaid. A larger frame woman would be more flattered by muted plaid, and no one really looks terrific in a completely outsized plaid.
Pattern fever is soooo high that if you are still petrified to pile on the fabric du jour, you can lavishly spritz it on with “Plaid” scented spray mist from Skirt-the scent of chic!
However you do it, it’s a plaid, plaid world, so get to it.
