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Checked dresses - stylish classics

Checked dresses - stylish classics

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Content
  1. Who is suitable?
  2. Types of checkered print
  3. Styles
  4. Fabrics
  5. Length
  6. With a collar
  7. With sleeves
  8. Colors
  9. Fashion trends
  10. What to wear?
  11. Footwear
  12. Jewelry for a beautiful image

Plaid print is one of the most popular, so the dress in a cage is often found in the wardrobe of fashionistas and on the catwalks. Let's discuss which checkered outfits are the most sought-after, what they are and what to wear with a checkered dress.

Who is suitable?

The cage can be called a universal print, as this pattern is suitable for any shape and any style of clothing. Plaid dresses can be worn at a reception, and at a friendly meeting, and at work. It is only important to choose a suitable variant of such a print and skillfully add accessories and other clothes to the outfit.

Types of checkered print

Depending on the size and color performance, checkered patterns are of the following types:

Vichy

In this figure, two colors alternate in the form of horizontal and vertical stripes. Their intersection forms the squares of the third shade. The picture is in demand for Provence style, as well as in country style. If the squares formed by the intersection of the stripes are large, the most popular coloring of this variant of “Vichy” is black and white. The color variant of a similar cell is usually formed by small squares. Such a checkered print goes well with a single pastel fabric, lace and jeans. For example, having added a similar checkered dress to a sabot and a jeans jacket, you receive a successful summer country image, and having put on stiletto shoes and picking up a clutch to a cotton dress with a Vichy cell, you can create a nice evening dress.

Plaid

This version of the checkered pattern that came into fashion from the national Scottish costume is also called tartan. He has not lost his popularity for more than one year. Most often, the Scottish cage is used in models of dresses that are worn in a cool time. Thanks to this pattern, you can visually adjust the shape.

Mesh cage

In such a pattern, thin stripes intersect to form a grid. Usually for a similar checkered print one color is used, presented in several shades. Such a pattern is appropriate for both business style and romantic image. Wearing a sheath dress with a mesh cage with pumps, you can go to the office, and in a cotton dress with this print, complemented by ballet shoes, you can go on a date.

Madras cell

So called asymmetric checkered pattern, which is used mainly black, white, sand and red. It is not used in business style, but is in demand mainly for youth fashion.

English cell

Although such a checkered pattern is more typical of a men's suit, it is also found in dresses. Classic shades for this type of checkered print are gray, beige, blue, brown, burgundy, black and white and dark green.

Styles

The checkered ornament most successfully looks in dresses of such style:

  • Sheath Dress
  • Dress in the floor with long sleeves.
  • Outfit with A-silhouette.
  • Dress Basques.
  • Dress shirt.
  • Strict straight dress.
  • Sundress.
  • Cropped strapless model.
  • Model with a free cut.

Fabrics

Dresses with a small Vichy print are sewn of satin, silk, cotton and velvet. Models in a cage for cool weather are traditionally represented by products from cashmere, thick cotton and wool.

Length

Long to the floor

Maxi models of checkered dresses are very elegant and feminine.Long models with a deaf collar and a long sleeve are especially widespread now. They are both strict and attractive. Diagonal print is often used for evening long dresses without sleeves or with a shoulder strap on one shoulder. In this dress, the figure looks slim and tall.

Midi

Plaid dresses of medium length are most often elegant straight dresses with long sleeves, complemented by a thin belt. This length is also the case for checkered cotton sundresses and dresses with a shirt cut.

A short

Striped dresses with a mini skirt are often presented by sundresses on thin spaghetti straps, strict dresses with a belt, airy summer dresses without sleeves and playful dresses with a fluffy skirt. This length can be represented and demanded in our days, dress-shirt.

With a collar

Many strict checkered dresses have a collar, which further emphasizes the elegance of the dress. At the same time, such a small collar can be a bright accent if its color stands out against the background of the main checkered pattern. A plaid shirt dress is usually sewn with a turndown collar.

With sleeves

Sleeves checkered outfit help to emphasize the style of the dress. Straight cut products complement the three-fourths with straight long sleeves or sleeves. In plaid shirt dresses, sleeves are more often short.

Colors

Black

Such dresses with a dark base help to create an elegant and concise image. Most often in these outfits black color is combined with white. Bright details, such as a belt, bag and scarlet shoes, will be a good addition to the black checkered print.

Whites

Such a basis for a checkered print allows you to get a low-key casual outfit and looks particularly good on summer checkered outfits. A popular option is a white canvas, crossed by thin black stripes. Chess print with white accessories looks no less interesting.

Red

It is the red color that serves as the basis of such a popular checkered print as Scottish. In this pattern, the addition to the red appears black. A bright red checkered dress looks good with a single dark jacket or jacket, as well as black shoes and a black leather handbag.

Green

The dark green base of the checkered ornament is often complemented by black. Also, green models of dresses in a cage can be represented by combinations of several green shades. The combination of green and black cells with yellow and blue looks attractive.

Fashion trends

Nowadays, checkered print love and demand from designers. Modern plaid outfits attract with their expressiveness and color combinations. For the summer season, designers advise you to look at the checkered dress in a minimalist style with a free style. In such outfits, the checkered pattern is fully revealed. A no less interesting variant of the checkered pattern for a summer dress will be its use in multi-layered dresses decorated with drapery.

Spring-autumn models in a cage look especially organic. Dresses case are suitable for different images - from a gentle evening to a strict office. The current trend in their tailoring is an emphasis on creativity and a small pretentious attire. In many works of the designer, a checkered print is presented on a fitted bodice, frill at the hem, and complex draperies. Patterns that combine a cell located in different directions, as well as squares of the same type with different sizes, are relevant.

In the spring palette, designers apply bright and rich combinations of colors, for example, a lemon-purple or pink-green pattern. Not lost the popularity of black and white checkered print. As for the fall, the Scottish has been in the lead for several years already. Along with it, turquoise-green and pink-beige checkered ornament are in demand.

What to wear?

  • Plaid dresses should be combined with things of monophonic coloring. This can be a tweed coat, jacket, plain vest, poncho, denim jacket.
  • For a dress from the Scottish cell, you can wear a cardigan (pick up a product with a large and rather dense knit) or a leather jacket with a fitted silhouette. Also, a light cloak of any pastel shade is successfully combined with tartan.
  • Knitted plain accessories - bags, capes, scarves, belts are a good choice for a dress in a cage. Also, a fur cape will be a stylish pair for a checkered product.

Footwear

The best choice for checkered outfits will be ballet flats, suede ankle boots or coarse boots. Shoes should be selected taking into account the model of the dress itself, as well as the place where the dress with a checkered print is worn. If your dress is a checkered mini, it is quite possible to wear boots.

Jewelry for a beautiful image

If the squares in a checkered print are rather large, then it is worthwhile to pick up an elegant and delicate costume jewelry. A dress with a small cell should be complemented with more massive decorations. For expressive dresses do not require a lot of jewelry, so it can be limited to a long string of beads or a small brooch.

Comments
  1. Anna
    17.02.2016

    I love a variety of prints. I still didn't have cells, but now I just want such a dress.

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