Woman’s Passions

Even if your vacation is over long ago, we still treat summer days in a special way. Sun, green, diversity of colours among other people’s cloth, deep blue sky, languid bliss of warm evenings - all this disposes to frivolous mood. And even strictest bosses thaw out and start looking on dress cose requirements somehow freely.

 

But here first yellow leaves fall down, whirling sadly in clear cool air, and everything changes. We understand that summer has gone. Taking whole bliss and languor of warm evenings with itself - until next year. And, after all, it’s time to return to work, strict chief, new projects, carrier aspirations and dress code.

Let’s try to make this return not so abrupt and oppressive, keeping astringent taste of hot vacational summer in working cloth for working days, not causing a quarrel between chief and colleagues because of excessive frivolity of your image. Leading Fashion Houses’ offers allow you doing this.

 

Male/Female

 

Many ladies still consider that imitation of men is an ideal variant for business cloth. Man’s style really presents in fashion of almost each season. And designers play up with it in their collections gladly.

Today Lagerfeld, Ann Demeulemeester, Dolce&Gabbana, YSL Rive Gauche, Lanvin collections offer wonderful variants. The base remains well-known to us: two-piece outfit or straight trousers with pin-tucks near waist in combination woth classic club coat with small lapels. However, having proclaimed feminity as a general slogan of this season, designers couldn’t swerve from it in man’s models too.

 

 

And this means that classic white shirts should be replaced by romantic blouses of gauzy chiffon or strict jabot, man’s shirts with lacy cuffs. Unusual cuts or pin-tucks appear on classic jackets, and sleeves become little shorter.

 

Classic suit

 

Another indispensable attribute of a modern business woman is a suit. This autumn will be no exception. Out task is to make it feminine and smart. Alberta Ferretti, Burberry, Chanel, Costume National, Diane Von Furstenberg, Donna Karan, Hussein Chalayan, Lacroix and many other Fashion Houses cope with it successfully.

 

First of all, pay attention to wide choice of skirts silhouettes in suits they offer - from classic tight to tulip-skirt reaching middle of a knee. And they all offer short-cut jackets. Besides, sleeves are also short-cut (three-quarter length).

 

 

No extremely bright decorations or radical decor in such models. However, embroidery is allowable (not too bright and motley), blouses with frills, applications to match general material. Besides, even classic Chanel suits made of ratine whool have rather cheerful coloring today.

 

Just a jacket

 

Regardless of strict dress code requirements, not everybody likes suits and prefers choosing jackets separately, and then combines them with skirts, trousers and even dresses. There’re interesting novelties today for those who like forming their wardrobes in such way.

 

Long whoolen cardigans, thick sateen, tweed, denim, cotton and even satin are offered today. British designers traditionally offer most extremal variants of sets with such jackets. And Jil Sander offers a combination with wide shorts, when length of jacket is one palm lower, than length of quite classic trousers.

 

 

As a rule, such long jackets can be sligthly fitted and look great both with loose trousers and skirts of almost any width (but forst of all, of course, with tight ones). Besides, if you add some accesories and change make-up sligthly, they can replace evening cloth while unplanned trip to theatre or restaurant right after work.

 

Plasticity of knitted fabric

 

Many chiefs don’t like knitted things for some reason, considering them too humbled, too democratic and conflicting with dress code. Meanwhile, this is a true mistake. Knitted things gained their place in the sun long ago, and modern most elegant ladies include them in their wardrobe gladly. We can remember famous jercey dresses and jackets from Chanel.

 

If you’re ready to assure your uncomplying boss in this fact, then you can resort to the widest choice, offered by leading world designers, as Carolina Herrera, Diane Von Furstenberg, Giambattista Valli, Giorgio Armani, Hermes.

 

 

Among most attractive and appropriate things for any office, we can name thin knitted roll-neck sweaters of any form and silhouette (of course, one-colour), and also jackets and cardigans of calm colors and small volumes, which you can wear with skirts, trousers and dresses.

 

The only thing you should avoid while choosing knitted things for working days is stretch materials. They fit too tightly, what, probably, makes you especially sexual, but still looks mistakenly in a business office.

 

Final touch

 

Of course, while forming a business woman’s wardrobe we won’t do without such details, like shoes and bags. These are that touches, that can spoil whole winsome appearance, if chosen wrongly.

 

As for shoes, here everything is quite simple: classic pumps with heels of any height will be appropriate in any variant. While proceeding from frivolous summer to boring autumn we can allow yourself some decor on your shoes. Moreover, it’s quite appropriate for a new trend of this fashionable season - feminity and elegance. This season’s novelty - are massive shoes with lacing and steady wide heel of middle length. Givenchy collection can be considered an embodiment of this trend.

 

 

You can make rather a certain choice of a business handbag too. It sould be quite roomy, large, of geometric form, but at the same time quite soft in silhouette, without any angles.

 

 

In general, a handbag should create an impression of rather expensive one. This is what you should make a rule of. Moreover, a good comfortable and high-quality bag will relieve your business woman’s life significantly, as it’s not just an element of decor in your image, but also a very functional thing.