Summer Pastels and the Romance Invasion

Big apologies for the lack of blogging but as it was the Chrissy period I went home to Dorset and was busy with relatives and winter walks and the sort. But anyway, hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year and I'm back to bore you with my musings!


I thought I'd start with a vague prediction for spring/summer 2010, or as the comedian Peter Serafinowicz (who I follow on twitter - twitter.com/serafinowicz) would say '2KX' which I quite like, anyway back to the point - after gazing into my crystal ball I have found that pastels are gonna be big. Although don't hold me to that...


Basically from looking at a few high street stores new collections, it looks like pastels - mainly in the pink/beige variety, are going to be the colour of choice for summer, paired with studs again and with lots of florals. This lovely tutu style skirt would be a really good staple to see you through the summer, it's from New Look and can be bought here: http://tinyurl.com/y9cw8sw.

OK - I'm afraid I started this post a while ago (a couple of weeks) and saved it to finish at a later date and so now, since starting this post, I have seen this trend go crazy! It's now in nearly every high street shop and on sites like asos, take a look at some of these pieces from their recent newsletters:

And look in any women's clothes shop and they'll have a section on this trend (well definitely New Look and Topshop anyway).

Also I think I'll have to adjust what I have said previously - it's not a trend prediction for Spring/Summer it's a trend for now! As I speak I'm wearing a pale pink jumper, or 'sweater' if you're American, with a pink and grey floral scarf both from Topshop - thanks to a gift card I got for Christmas from an aunt (though I spent more than was actually on it in the end woops!). You can find them on Topshop's site here: http://tinyurl.com/y9mlm6l (sweater) http://tinyurl.com/ybvw9hy (scarf)

So pastels, pinks, florals and whites are BIG right now - just think romantic, Parisian, spring days and floaty flowers. I did hint on twitter (follow @sheaimstofollow !) that I'd be writing about velvet but that seemed to be a very small trend that just fell by the way-side a month or two ago so the pastel/pink/floral trend has taken my attention instead - maybe velvet was only good for the festive period and now that's over everyone's looking towards spring with lighter fabrics and colours?!

Anyway I'm basically just repeating myself by banging on about pinks and pastels so I'll love you and leave you - hopefully there won't be such a big gap between posts next time...

Elvie xxx