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Great Little Dresses for Spring

This Spring there are some wonderful little dresses coming out; some unique and some more traditional.   In the unique category is the sleeveless neoprene scuba dress by Tibi. This is a dress with no sleeves and a scoop neck that has a bathing suit type top and a flared skirt. It comes in a bright tulip pink. Topshop also makes a Scuba High Neck skater dress with a mandarin collar and in the color mandarin.

 

A more demure look that is equally sexy is Preen Line Harbour’s denim blue short dress with a wrapped bandage style top and a tailored mid-length skirt.  A bright neon strip of fabric that makes it look less casual and more cocktail-like and modern in look and cut interrupts the denim blue.

 

Instead of a little black dress Missoni makes a little green dress out of Jacquard. It has no sleeves and is a bright grass green and banded with a forest green elastic waist. White piping also give the dress waist a bit more interest.

 

Matthew Williamson has been delighting the chica crowd with his little cocktail dresses for a few years now. This season he authors a beautiful sleeveless above the knee coral shift that is decorated with scores of beautiful golden beads in the neck detail.

 

Some Spring dresses have longer sleeves. Amanda Uprichard makes an ultramarine blue dress with black detailing  that looks great worn with beatle boots or high heeled ankle boots.  The neck is a boat-neck and the sleeves are extra long and cover the hands part way.

 

Dresses with layered ruffles will also be very au courant. ICB has made a Grecian style dress with a tip flap and a bottom flap in attractive rich coral color. It is a handkerchief hem with a dip in the front and the back.

 

If you are a bit of a princess you will like the formal “pretty and pink” style mini dress by Erin Featherstone that features a tailored bodice and a poufed skirt with two huge bows on tying together a bare back The whole look is tied together with a pair of flesh colored shoes.  If baby pink is too prudish then H&M has a bright pink dress with a tulip skirt and a wrap around cut to the bosom is a nice idea.  However the height of this type of dress is the peach short half-scuba half-wrap dress with capped sleeves that is made by Halston.

 

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Even More About the Big Striped Trend for Spring

It will be very hard in the future to avoid the big striped trend in the Spring and Summer because just about every designer was showing it off on the runways.

 

Temperly London, known for it’s sportswear was featuring beautiful orange sundresses striped laterally with blocks of navy blue and white. For interest a stripe of flesh colored fabric ran vertically down the front of the dress and it was cinched with one tiny gold button. The look is simple, cool and very sophisticated.

 

Versace showed beautiful low waisted pencil thin pants with stripes paired with a beautiful see through lace top with an almost mandarin cut.

Fitting right in with the boxy tops with stripes that are in was a big top in black and white bars by Acne. This top is flared with a flared hem and flared sleeves.  The skirt was made out of ballooning silk.   The shoes worn with this very boxy top were purple platform send up the legs were ten circlets of shiny purple leather that served as additional accents to the boxy striped top.

 

Chloe also showed stripes.  Blousy pants made in maroon and white fabric were paired with a black-cropped top and very pointy shiny shoes with thin anklet straps. Chloe also showed a blousy striped wrapped cotton top with a slouchy black skirt and gold shoes.

 

Christian Dior had a lot of fun with the stripes theme this season offering up a pink and black striped party dress. The stripes were lateral off of the top fringed with black. An interesting sheer underskirt in orange and pink topped of the whole look.

 

Christian Dior also made an A shape flared shift in pink and white satin that is cut on the bias and worn with very pointy shoes.

 

Marc Jacobs showed off dresses that looked like long coats. They could be worn as dresses or overcoats. They were made of a fabric with long vertical stripes. The jacket and skirt were made of the same.

 

Stripes were also seen in the more subtle designs of Altuzarra. Thin gold stripes on a cream background were showcased in tailored suits and skirts and paired with dark brown thin belts with brass buckles.

 

Pinstripes are going to be as popular as big stripes as was displayed in the elegantly tailored suits of Oscar de la Renta.  This designer preferred fabric with thin puckered vertical lines in a single breasted flared jacket with a slight shawl collar and very narrow capri pants.

 

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