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How to Wear a Toad Blouse
This season, designers decided that ordinary collars are too boring, and brought toads back into fashion. New interesting models and old, stretched out of the grandmother's chest - everything goes in motion.
In the classic version, the toad is a finish of a blouse or dress in the form of a frill of fabric or lace, descending from the neck down the chest. It's basically a kind of collar.
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Toad blouse
Designers Valentino, Moschino, Missoni, D&G and Bill Blass also find special charm in this detail.
Read more about fashion trends this season in our articles. Follow the links.
In the classic version, the toad is a finish of a blouse or dress in the form of a frill of fabric or lace, descending from the neck down the chest. It's basically a kind of collar.
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Toad blouse
- The toad first appeared in European costume in the XVII century as a detail of the men's suit. It was a lush and snow-white, voluminous and weightless light decoration of clothes.
DepositPhotos - Women began wearing toads in the nineteenth century. Then the clasps on the dress moved from the back to the chest, and there was a need to cover them somehow. Now ladies do not worry about such trifles and use toads only as decoration.
DepositPhotos - As time passed, the toad improved and changed, some of its modern forms became strikingly different from the classical ones. But one thing remained unchanged - the decorativeness of this detail.
DepositPhotos - Over time, the toad turned from a detail of the solemn wardrobe of secular ladies into a more ascetic attribute of a strict business lady. Until a few decades ago, it was worn exclusively by business women and only on starchy business shirts. Today's toad is trying to get back to its roots a little.
DepositPhotos - Bohemian, aristocratic, elegance, sophistication, artistry and romance are the qualities that this detail gives any outfit, whether it is a translucent cocktail dress or a fitted office blouse.
DepositPhotos - Now, to make the blouse or dress more feminine, they are often decorated with ruffles, frills, beads, various patterns, and this year also with collars of unthinkable shapes, including toads.
DepositPhotos - Finishing from lace or light fabric in assemblies or folds on the chest at the gate enriches the image. With such decoration, the woman looks more refined, aristocratic, mysterious. Like a real lady. This season is popular. blousesand particularly interesting toad.
DepositPhotos - In modern fashion toad returned Karl Lagerfeld. German fashion designer, photographer, collector, who until the last days of his life was the permanent head of the Italian fashion house Fendi and French Chanel. 294375
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Designers Valentino, Moschino, Missoni, D&G and Bill Blass also find special charm in this detail.
Read more about fashion trends this season in our articles. Follow the links.
