Ted Baker party outfits

I must admit that I am among those most resistant to online shopping and consequently, quite skeptical when it comes to value online promoted shops. I like to shop in the traditional way because it is a unique sensation to enter a ground based fashion shop. I found it relaxing to wonder through the cloths, to smell the unworn clothes, to touch the fresh stitching, to feel the material through my fingers and to see the colors without any millions colors addition brought by the smart phones screens. Still, glancing into Ted Baker’s online shop I got the same sensation that I only felt in small Parisian fashion boutiques.

Each page and each product lead the visitor on a story. The dresses can be called by a name and not necessarily a jumbled letters and number combination that usually come up on web shops. This way each product gains personality and it’s as if each of them looks for the right person to wear them.

The Ted Baker’s products are given souls, looking for matching spirits among the site’s visitors. The party outfits follow the latest fashion trends with some unique combinations. Sliding down on the party outfits section of the website it can’t get unnoticed the way he organized the sub-sections: dresses, tops, tailoring, playsuits & shorts-on one side and shoes, cover ups, bags and accessories on the other side. It’s like when women get dressed-first they choose the body wear-dresses, tops, playsuits &shorts and then they choose accordingly the shoes, cover ups, bags and accessories. So right from the top, Ted Baker shows significant women's insight knowledge.

The party dresses are the iconic outfit for party outfits. Ted Baker manages to offer all the essential types of party dresses- from maxi fluid golden Callen dress to sweet ballroom dancing Raul lace dress, Ashlin laces bodice dress and blue organza and lace Marceli dress. The colors are modern going to light girlish apricot for Banilo, Janini and Bryana dresses. The hot red and the luxurious black couldn’t have been missing with classic event dresses like Komet, Jimena and Edella. I must admit that I was looking for a yellow model, but was nicely surprised by the Borska dress in golden dark yellow with interesting skater print and princess cut. My favorite will be the Peera gown with a wild forest story printed on the maxi long silk part and pleated strapless modern upper bodice.

Borska - Skater jacquard dress

Raul - lace ball dress

ASHLIN - Lace boned bodice dress

The surprises keep on coming from the tailoring and playsuits& shorts sub-sections. My first choice for party outfit is the dress, but viewing these two sections I incline to change my mind. I didn’t know jumpsuit can be elegant and fashionable until I glanced to the Pimla lace top jumpsuit and the hot red short version-Fabriss.

To finish my party outfit, naturally, I got to cover ups and accessories. From cover ups, I choose the Aramm because it’s sassy and so furry. At accessories I had to stay a while, since I just couldn’t decide on a favorite. I would have taken them all.

Party outfits - the current trends

I don’t know about you, but when the weekend is approaching I started daydreaming about one of my favorite methods of relaxation: party. Having these delicious thoughts in mind here raises the eternal unforgivable question: what to wear this time? The party outfit dilemma is commonly the source for researching about news on fashion trends. All fashion addict women look for edgier, sassier and more extravagant ways to make their party outfit noticed.

Dress or no dress

The number one choice for party women outfits is the dress. Still the party dress concept has changed a lot for the 2012-2013 trends. The fashion designers offer their fans original, interesting ideas for party outfits. The contemporary woman personality founds the party dress the perfect channel to be outspoken about her most intimate and wild experiences and thoughts.

The party dress is long, short, mini, asymmetric, flared, fitted, hugging forms, bell pepper cut, shiny, glittering, transparent, vintage, chic-biker, in all colors and materials. It is like everything goes and the imagination knows no limits. Still, there is quite a large section of fashionable women that are anti-dresses. This anti dress trend has opened the way for party pants outfits. To give you some anti-dress ideas for a trendy party outfits try matching suit pants in velvet with fluid golden lame blouse, high heels and glittering maxi earrings or, a great option for maxi dress the maxi jumpsuit in shiny materials.

Materials, Colors and Cuts

When the word party is associated with trendy outfit it becomes clear that a fine, extravagant and precious material is involved. Shinny lame in metallic colors has become one of the most featured materials chosen by the designers to make party outfits. Still, the traditional silk and tutu are among the favorites as well. The 2012-2013 party outfits season brings out not only the precious materials like silk, lame and now velvet but the unexpected combinations with leather in neon colors, long spangles, metallic sequins, feathers in cancan style and even metal tacks. All influences are used to create the new Glam code, from boho chic to Goth-rock.

The black code seems to have faded to give way for the powerful colors in like neon lime yellow, green mint and sky blue. The colors and the materials are two components tightly bonded. For example the spangles and the sequin dresses come in sassy violent colors. The glamour is obtained through the colors and the light reflecting materials. On the other hand the extravagant, daring cuts are more likely associated with different colored layers of tutu and silk matched with corset tops.

Hot Accessories

The final touch of a successful party outfit is the accessories. There are some simple rules to follow in order to get that glam touch and still manage to keep it out of the bling-bling area. For example, if a sequin material is involved and on top of that a violent color is chosen, then keep the accessories like earrings and purses low in quantity and sparkle. Too much can be less elegant. The 2012 season of party trends has a soft spot for the opulence and it is being channeled in accessories. So, maxi earrings and neck collars are the must have.

The single one must have element for party outfit, from 50 seasons back and still kept this season, is very high heel, generally stiletto or thin platform, shoes and sandals (rarely boots) and in metallic or sequined materials.

Mango winter collection 2012

Mango has become in the last years the icon brand for high street fashion style. We could say without any exaggerations that the high street style is best featured and illustrated by Mango’s collections. The winter 2012 collection is again best represented by the gorgeous model Kate Moss. Once again she agrees with taking on Mango’s image project, which can’t be interpreted other than her passion for Mango’s clothing.

Kate Moss for the winter collection 2012

Just like in the case of past collection, Mango divides quite clearly the subsections into casual-sport, jeans, suit and evening. The lines are cool, sharp and smart with architectural elements unveiled by the loose sleeves and the fit loose waists. The statue solidness of jackets and coats contrasts with the fluid silk and fitted cuts for the evening dresses. The length for the dresses and pants, evening or casual-sport is either mini or maxi. With this collection, Mango expresses its utterly refined taste in urban outfits. The materials are chosen attentively in order to best show the feminine body lines. For example, the evening skirts and dresses in sequins are mini and those in silk or velvet with lace are ankle long with slits for legs showing. While the sleeves gain plenty of volume the waists are cinched or greatly put in value by peplum details.

The spectacular Kate Moss (which by the way she looks a decade younger and not within her 38 years) teams up with Spanish giant in urban-cool fashion, to show the winter collection clean lines used to create outfits that involve epaulets, contrast piping, leather adornments smartly placed along the trimming, patch pockets and military motifs for buttons and padded garments. Kate Moss is looking striking in the military inspired outfits featured in the Mango winter collection for 2012. To avoid opulence, the luxurious lace is associated with velvet and silk and used smartly to fill in cleavages, mostly deep back ones, or simply trimming the edges,.

The colors mark for evening outfits is elegant white and black combination with energy sources provided by hot red and electric blue. The strapless mini dress in red with exuberant peplum waist certainly makes the blood’s temperature to rise in cold winter days. The stains of color come in olive and khaki, used in neutral shades, associated with ghastly bordo. We could say that the contemporary fashion taste for boho chic and vintage is kept away from Mango’s winter collection for the 2012 season, or just discreetly implied by the oversized knit sweaters and the skinny trousers in Arabic prints.

Once again, Mango has successfully set trends in urban street fashion. The iconic pieces are, just like the Brit model said, the butter-soft tuxedo matched with waist pleats or slim fit pants and the mini black sequined jersey dress. She also stated that the pointed court shoes with stiletto high heel, a pair of skinny jeans and the tube fitted black skirt with leather insertions are key clothing pieces that shouldn’t miss from any fashionable women’s closet.  

The Christmas gift guide

Don’t you want to find that perfect Christmas gift, the one that makes eyes sparkle and puts a big smile on the face? The ideal Christmas gift expresses how much you love, respects, appreciate and understands the people in your life- your family, your office colleagues or simply a great client. Even if the perfect Christmas gift is hard to accomplish, the variety of options and ideas are overwhelming. To help you through some difficult decisions here a quick guide for Christmas gift shopping.

Christmas gift for the boyfriend/husband

So he says “I don’t need a gift, I love you anyway”. Well, that might be true, but he will certainly be happier if you got him a Christmas gift. The startup would be “What he wishes for?”. For the obvious reasons we will discard an Aston Martin or a yacht and don’t even think of a Christmas card, men are totally indifferent to those. The key idea for the ideal Christmas gift for your special man is to see what his hobbies are. Does he fish, play pool, golf, football? Still, you might want to go deeper with your research, because if, for example, he’s a football fan, find out what his favorite team is, in order to avoid a fiasco.

Still in the dark? Let’s see this from another point of view: what things men would never like as a Christmas gift? Number one is clothing. You will certainly want to avoid arguments like “You never wear that shirt I got for you on Christmas!-How could I?! It’s candy pink”. Still, you could go with men accessories, like shirt buttons. The perfect gift: the sensational watches box.

Christmas gift for the girlfriend/wife

Generally for women the options are many. Perfumes, make up, jewelry, clothes-but mind the measures, because a bigger measure will make her think you see her fat and a smaller one will make her think you wished she were skinnier. So be careful with that, women are so sensible about this aspect. Also, intimate lingerie will be a risky choice- the cup size must be perfect, plus the color and the sexy garments are risky business for men to get it right. Even if you still manage to get her a perfect lingerie gift, she will be impressed, but she will also wonder how come you know so much about intimate women lingerie. There are some gifts that you should never think of, even if she implied she wished for: fitness subscription, esthetical operations and anti-aging products. These are like plain affronts for ladies. The perfect gift: a fancy perfume or a luxury trip just for the two of them.

Christmas gift for the boss

The main problem with the boss’s Christmas gift is that if don’t take him/her anything he will remember that and will make your next year hell. The main aspects to consider in the case of “Christmas gift for boss” are the size and the value. If you can team up with your colleagues, then an expensive gift would be indicated. Also keep away from the personal gifts, like perfumes or clothing or “best boss” coffee cup. The decorative items are perfect for boss’s Christmas gift, for example a wine bottle in a vintage wooden box or an office golf set. The key factor is the wrapper-go with something classy and shinny.