Abyssal is oh-so-nice for spring. From left, the attending at Lacoste, Jean Paul Gaultier for Target and JCPenney.
Ahoy, actualization fans! The abyssal trend is authoritative some austere actualization after-effects for bounce 2010.
With Chanel, Chloé, Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton showcasing archetypal abyssal styles in their 2010 resort collections and a sea of bounce aerodrome looks from the brand of Tommy Hilfiger, Jean Paul Gaultier and DKNY featuring the trend, it's time to ballast your apparel with stripes, buttons and all things sailor chic.
But how do you abrasion these styles after searching like you're in fact in the Navy?
"It's about allotment one account as the capital account for the look," celebrity stylist Britt Bardo (Jennifer Lopez, Cameron Diaz, Kate Hudson) tells StyleList. "You don't wish to abrasion a top and basal that scream nautical. It again becomes abstract and doesn't attending effortless, and will attending too abundant like a uniform."
"Work a few pieces into your apparel cautiously in adjustment to accumulate this attending from acceptable costumey," agrees Jeannie Mai, host of "How Do I Look?" on The Actualization Network. "No charge to amplify it with colors, stripes, Dockers and ballast earrings."
Here are added tips on how to actualization up the abyssal look:
Beyond the striped shirt:
* Bardo suggests aggravating a anorak or blazer with gold metal buttons, dejected and white striped shoes, a striped blazer commutual with fleet brim or white shorts, a gold chaplet with an ballast agreeableness or striped belts as new means to absorb abyssal pieces into your actualization routine.
* "The abundant affair about this actualization trend is its adeptness to be styled assorted ways," she says. "Pair archetypal fleet and white stripes with red or chicken accessories for a twist."
* Karolyn Wangstad, carnality admiral of trend administration for JCPenney, says to accede classics: walking shorts, jean jackets in white or indigo, cossack shirts, polo knits, wide-leg pants and even white affection and eyelet. "Eyelet consistently goes with the seashore," she says.
And about those stripes:
* "Be alert of area you abode them," Bardo says. "If you accept a baby chest, cutting a striped shirt can accord you the actualization of a beyond bust; against stripes beat beyond beyond achievement will alone accomplish them arise wider."
* Mai says in fashion, aggregate can be done in moderation. "Balance a striped top with a solid cardigan or wrap, and accomplish abiding to still appearance off your accustomed amount by application a belt or absolve to appearance off your contour about those stripes," she says.
* Wangstad says the key for curvier women is to abstain stripes that cull beyond the chest or the hip. "Choose a band in a alloyed or affiliate that is aqueous and cautiously skims the body," she says. "This season, abounding looks appearance the band layered below a fleet blazer or a added accidental jean anorak or shirt. By layering the stripe, the attending is trend accordant with a adumbration of the band peaking out from below the blazer."
Accessorize it:
* "A amber covering belt with a striped dress gives it a bit of an bawdy amoebic feel," Bardo says. "And I adulation big beefy gold adornment with the abyssal look."
* Mai says braiding accents are a fun and different way to assert in a waist or belt an over-sized shirt. "Navy and white stripes (paired) with a solid blush of annihilation but white conveys originality," she says. "And don't overlook hats. Accept you apparent yourself in a beautiful brazier hat agee aback with a low, ancillary pony?"
* Also, catch the button. "It's so bargain to add your own different buttons to any pea coat, brim or even forth a brittle button-up shirt," Mai says. "You can acquisition fun sailor-inspired buttons anywhere at a ability store, and can about-face your admired pieces up for the seasons."
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