Silhouette – all you need to know about it
The most popular this season was the trapeze silhouette. And it is not surprising, because skirts, dresses, trench coats, suits or coats take on the trapezoidal shape. It is the lines that emphasize the expressiveness and proportions of your costume.
History of silhouettes
Initially, it is customary to distinguish silhouettes by the way it fits your figure: extended, adjacent, narrowed down, semi-adjacent or completely free. To clarify the classification, geometric shapes are used. For a long time in fashion, geometric shapes have been associated with a certain era, for example, ancient Greece was characterized by a rectangular shape of clothing, and an oval silhouette was typical for Rococo and Baroque.
The trapezoid silhouette helps to shape the figure by diverting the eye from its natural forms. With a trapezoid, you can successfully combine a rectangular silhouette. This kind of silhouette, which will expand from the waist, can emphasize it favorably and divert attention from the hips. In this case, the emphasis will also be on the legs.
A-silhouette is considered related to the trapezoid, which was resurrected by Yves Saint Laurent. It was in the 60s that youth suits first appeared, which filled the catwalks of fashion houses and stood before the eyes of designers. It was the Yves Saint Laurent fashion house that opened in 1961 that laid the foundation for this fashion.
Silhouette "trapeze" in our time
It must be borne in mind that the silhouette acquires expressiveness in tandem with the fabric used. The complication of styles, the introduction of new details and the improvement of lines help to update the silhouette.
If you decide to wear a Twiggy-style dress that uses candy shades, then accessories will be an important addition. With this style, it is appropriate to combine spectacular boots in the same color palette, gloves and turtlenecks, jewelry.
In fashion circles, it is believed that the A-silhouette is close in style to the trapezoid. For Jacqueline Kennedy, it was the A-line skirt that became the canon of style. Britney Spears skillfully used this style at the beginning of her career, and the heroines of the Sex and the City series in every episode were pleasing to the eye in this particular skirt. In general, it is worth noting that the A-line skirt is present in the wardrobe of every self-respecting woman. Of course, over the years, the skirt has changed its shape, reflecting the fashion trends of a particular generation.
And today, a skirt of this style rightfully occupies one of the leading places on the fashionable Olympus among the classics.