Updated Trends

Five trends you may take from the recent Fashion Week to your closet.

Mini Dress

Hemlines and necklines have receded so drastically that the little dress now just about covers your bottom , and leaves neck and shoulders bare.Drapery forms bows , corsages at the shoulders and pleats keep it feminine.Evening dresses are the shorter they have been in this decade.

Patterned Tights

The next level in tights is inhabited by textures and metallic colours. Gunmetal ,faux leather,faux crocodile and snake-skin textures and colours,checks and those with the buckles and the ankles .If you can find them ,bright colours in a slightly diaphanous fabric will add that pop of colour to a plain tunic or dress.Taut,they must reach your ankle and not not above or below, and particularly should not gather in to a churidaar .If you intend to travel,you could even get a pair of stockings in a bright print to wear under a short dress or skirt.

How To Wear

Shrug on a green or blue chikan-kaari tunic over metallic tights,with a cropped cotton or denim jacket.Seal the deal with huaraches ,ankle –length boots or gladiator sandals.

Formal Shorts

Shorts have moved from Goa-Wear into offices,under formal shirts .B ut these are more tailored than cut-off jeans .Formal shorts are constructed like trousers with fold-up hems ,pleats and button-tab belts.They can be high or low waisted ,with a sash or tulip hemmed.Treating them like trousers ,wear them under formal shirts or blousons, left un-tucked .The colours are of the boardroom-beige,browns,black and pin-striped creams.In keeping with the corporate look,wear a boyfriend jacket ,cork heeled pumps,waistcoat or ankle-length gladiator sandals and hang a soft bag on your elbow.

How To Wear

A pair of beige shorts that stop high on the thigh and have rolled or folded up hems.If they have pleats on the waist to keep them baggy,even better.

Bushy Eyebrows

Firmly stationed in the grips of an 80s revival,facial hair art is decidedly thicker.Eyebrows are bushier,though still well shaped .They start closer at the bridge of the brow and grow out longer.Combing them at the thicker end will make them spikier.Think ,not kajol.

How TO Wear

Let your brow grow out a month and ask your stylist to leave them two lines thicker than usual and forgo the scissor’s trim .Don't go for a dramatic over growth,just decide what you are comfortable with.

Metallic Chains

With glam rock on the ramp and off it,can chains be far behind? Turning away from pure gold and silver,bronze,pewter and tarnished gun metal chains are used as embellishments on jackets labels,shoulders of dresses and jump-suits and around the waist . Hang clutches of safety-pins at strategic places for a more raw look.Mind that these are the only accessories you wear with your ensemble.

How to wear it

Meters of dull gold chains that can be versatile for the waist and neck.skip pendants or charms