Autumn-time: retro-smartness

As well known, the world’s most dedicated dandies start getting ready for an autumn season even in the early summer – thus we following their example are simply obliged to look our wardrobe through and reckon up in our head whether there is something lacking there for the season set in.

Should we try to describe fashionable tendencies of the season autumn-winter 2007-2008 with one word only that word would be “restraint”. The season autumn-winter 2007-2008 looks strict, without any precisely outlined tendencies and with a thoughtful mood and covering silhouettes in general.

Retro-style returns in fashion this autumn. The abundance of fluttering skirts with frills, necklets, high gloves, waist-covering jackets, straight tweed coats and elegant suits with large buttons in collections of leading western designers serves as its obvious confirmation.

If you need to replenish your collection of autumn coats and dresses with some classical feminine images – there aren’t any better choices than those offered by the Italian designers in the new season. Fleecy mohair, with wide sleeves-flounces three quarters in length, on a wide belt or with lacy collars like ones schoolgirls of the previous century used to have.

Rather constrained tweed suits and waist-covering dresses were presented in her new collection by Donatella Versache as well having emphasized the convenience and practicality of images. Have a closer look at the cardigan sweaters on a wide belt and coat-capes – they’re the best among the new Versache stuff of this season.

If you’re more satisfied by the “doll” dresses with high shoulders and round sleeves in the style of the 1920s, do not pass by Moschino boutique - designers have refined their models with laces, satiny tapes and pretty frills, having created an image of the aristocratical coquette.

Retro style may be well observed in the strict woolen dresses kept in the best traditions of the military Europe of the 1940s. Slightly baggy velour dresses of dark shades and coats-trapezes, berets with brooches and velvet purses - all those manage to convey the previous epoch in a very stylish way.

Fashionable clothing colours of the season autumn-winter 2007-2008:

Quiet neutral tones with an impurity of grey color are best be used for clothing. If you don’t accept pastel shades of colours, use classical grey, white or black colour.

Fashionable accessory colours of the season autumn-winter 2007-2008:

Since the clothes are constrained enough the accessories should be brighter and even aggressive. For accessories and emphasizing details in clothing the use of purple-wine shades and blue-violet scale is recommended. Bright grassy-green and sky-blue ones are also up-to-date. Select silver and bronze from metal shades.