Coat with raglan sleeves

The word "raglan" one way or another know, or at least heard, almost everyone. At least, many will surely say that "this is something from clothes." Meanwhile, raglan, which takes its origin, as is often the case with women's wardrobe, from the wardrobe of purely masculine, military - this is a very comfortable fit of the sleeve, which will help emphasize the elegance of your style and, if necessary, adjust the shoulder line.

A feature of tailoring raglan sleeves is the lack of a shoulder seam, which once allowed military clothing to get wet less in the rain, and now:

• Provides additional freedom of hands when moving. This becomes especially relevant for women with a sufficiently large volume of arms in the upper part of them, which becomes a problem when buying clothes of their own size, but with a narrow cut of the sleeves.
• Creates a smooth and soft shoulder line, which emphasizes the femininity and elegance of the silhouette.

The advantages of raglan are that this style of sleevesAllows a unique way to visually reduce or increase the size of the shoulder girdle. If your shoulders are much larger than your hips, then a coat with such a cut will help visually smooth out this dissonance. This will also be facilitated by the choice of a cropped sleeve coat with a long turn-down collar in the English style or a shawl collar.

Ladies with a problem breast, in their opinion, will also be happy with such a cut, since the slanting seam lines from the neck to the armhole will wonderfully help the owners of too big and too small breasts - and in that, and in the other case, they will be satisfied the result. Paradoxically, big breasts raglan visually reduce, and small - increase. Even more effect in this direction can be achieved if you choose a coat, whose sleeves are made of fabric of a contrasting color.

Coat models with raglan sleeves can be arbitrarily divided into several groups.

By the type of cut the main part of the coat:

• straight cut;

• flared down;

• single breasted;

• double breasted;

• with a collar of various styles;

• without collar;

• with a hood.

The type of cut coat sleeves:

• narrowed down;
• flared down;
• flared sleeve with a smell;
• hinged with a fastener on a few buttons at the top;

On material of which the coat is made:

• Fabric (for warm coats, drape, cashmere; for lightweight - tweed, lightweight cashmere, wool, leather, suede; for summer - cotton and jacquard fabrics, denim, velvet, velvet; for festive and special occasions - light, airy fabrics, lace).

• From fur (for example, a stylish coat-coat made of fur stripes). Sometimes it is enough just to decorate a raglan coat with fur along the hem of the sleeves and collar so that elegance becomes more luxurious.

• Knitted (different types of yarn are used: from boucle to microfiber); with or without lining.

A raglan coat of any length - long, medium length or short - will look great on you if it is correctly tailored, chosen to suit the characteristics of the figure and appropriate in the given conditions (season, event, weather, accessories).

A coat with a raglan sleeve will fit you in any color that suits you personally, according to your color type and taste. As for fashion trends, the trend of the 2016 season is the return of the so-called “active print”. Cage, large and small, black and white and color, two or more colors.

Raglan coat implies a very feminine presentation of the image, so the other components should be soft and plastic. A-silhouette dresses, straight-cut skirts or narrowed down (pencil skirt, tulip skirt), pantsuits - everything that adds elegance to the image, and therefore the hostess. Shoes preferably also choose not too fussy. Raglan coat is self-sufficient in itself, so you should not overload the image.

Fashion designers have never left their raglan coats with their attention; in almost every fashion show, a coat with such sleeves becomes a highlight of fashion collections:

• Luxurious leather with an unusual design double-breasted coat with an English collar maroon-brown color with black trim for an evening exit from the Walk of Shame.

• And his laconic double in a black lacquer version with a cutting flounce on the bottom of the product.

• Cozy tweed trapeze coat in gray with checkered two-tone trim from Chanel.

• Deliberately simple look of a free dark beige coat with slit pockets and a long belt, complemented by also deliberately complex accessories that combine to create an unusually sophisticated image from Juan Carlos Obando.

• Cosmic design of a fantasically quilted pink maxi coat with a cocoon without a collar, with a cropped and also voluminous raglan sleeve from Frahchesco Scognamiglio.

• An elegant dark green coat on a belt with interesting decorative details from Adam Selman.

• A discreet but very feminine version of a gray drape coat with accentuated raglan lines, turning into a stand-up collar, a combined buckle, a tulip skirt, but without the characteristic curvature of the shelves along the hem, from Victoria Beckham.

• An ambiguous solution, and as a result, the grotesque-decorative look of a cocoon coat in oversized figure-cut from Balenciaga.

• Continuous movement of a stylish gray oversized coat for women with an active lifestyle from Lemaire.

• The same gray, and the same rapid shortened raglan coat with shoulder-strap, emphasizing the decisive fragility of its owner, from Isabel Marant.

• The splendor of the pink-blue cell of a long coat with a sleeve of infrequently-encountered length 7/8 by Stella Jean.