I just wanted to show you Boden’s Velvet Blazer
. It comes in great colors for Fall 2010: berry, black, purple, cyan, pewter, and leopard print. The price? $98, which is what I would expect to find an item like this priced for at a moderately priced store. Generally, you can find a link to Boden USA in my sidebar, offering additional savings.
According to Harper’s, camel will be the new color for fall. Of course, many of us have always believed camel, and leopard print, to be “classics”. Good for us; when a classic we like is declared the “in” thing, that is the time to buy! At any rate, one thing I like about many animal prints is the mixing of cool and warm colors (although I think I would have used a lipstick red scarf rather than the dusty purple, if I were styling the outfit pictured).
How about you: will you be adopting camel this fall, either in a leopard print or straight up?
Nope. I’m not an animal print girl at all. I just don’t like that brand of wild. I can do camel though. It’s actually the color of my favorite beloved (and dying) chino skirts.
I’m glad to see you’re blogging again. : )
Almost definitely not, at least for anything around my face. I have a wonderful camel corduroy jacket, that is now in the charity bin. Since I’ve let my hair go ‘grey tabby stripe’, camel close to my face leaves me sallow looking.
nix on the red, also fuschia, turquoise… 😀
I think a lot about leopard print and its connotations. I’m in with a little (accessories)
is ladylike, more is daring and after that trashy. I do have leopard print shirts in dark
camel tones, yellow and camel, greys. I like them as a dappled neutral under
stodgier jackets. Selfish Seamstress, who is far younger than I, made a pencil
skirt out of grey sateen leopard print and that was okay for her but when she made
a short, flaring trench she passed it along to her mother because she felt like
she was raiding a cougar’s closet. 🙂 I would have said that animal print in neutral
non-realistic colors was okay, but maybe not.
I have a cheetah coat I’m on the fence about
and a dark leopard skirt with the floaty overlayer. I wear this because it’s graceful
and comfortable but I’m ambivalent about it. I do have a blurry animal print jacket
of dark browns in corduroy that I do like and wear because it’s less obvious and the
corduroy takes it “down.” I’m avoiding straight camel, though I admire it on others.
You bring up a good point that I don’t hear from animal print fans: the connotation of predator. Personally, I have always favored zebra print, if any, and now there are nice giraffe prints as well, although neither of them mix cool and warm like the leopard you describe. I guess I’m more comfortable with the notion of being prey. 😉