Are you ready for a sizzling hot and stylish summer 2007 to show off your feminine, bold and chic side? I am again playing trend watcher and would like to share some of my favorites with you to help you adorn your unique essence.

Fashion Jewelry

Metallics, sculpted resins in smooth and bold designs, semi-precious gemstones, Murano-style glass, shell and crystal glass are all setting the glamorous trends in fashion jewelry this summer.

Let’s look at how these materials are being used to create artistic beauty:

o Heavy necklaces and cuff bracelets

o Chokers and shorter necklaces

o Large pendants

o Earrings and bracelets using concentric circles and bold loops

o Link bracelets

o Bangles

o Brooches reflecting a garden theme with blossoms, butterflies, lady bugs, and dragonflies

o Chunky rhinestone or Swarovski-crystal rings

Handbags

Naturally, we can’t forget one of our favorite accessories. Handbags! A handbag is the ultimate accessory to complete your outfit and adorn your uniqueness. The big themes for summer 2007 are:

o Oversized bags in patent leather, pebble-grain leather, clear plastic or quilt

o Metallic bags in silver, gold and bronze

o The envelope bag or a clutch in metallics or shiny satin

You’re a style trendsetter with any of these handbags.

Shoes

Naturally, you can’t forget the importance of wearing the perfect shoe for the summer. So, what are the key styles this year?

o Platform sandals

o Mary Jane ankle-strap shoes

o T-strap shoes

o Wedge platforms

o Lucite heels

o Peep-toe shoes

o Wood or cork heels

The heel height continues to go from one extreme to the other this season. Flat or extremely high, pointy or round, shiny or bright, is filling the store shelves and pounding the streets.

And what are the key colors dominating fashion jewelry, handbags and shoes?

o Gold

o Silver

o Gray

o White

o Light browns

o Animal-print

o Peach

o Aqua

o Fuchsia

o Mint green

o Teal green

o Yellow

Keep in mind that fashion jewelry is indispensable this season, not only because it is the fashion trend, but because it reaches an historical high in artistic beauty. When it comes to handbags, oversized is the name of the game. For shoes, it’s height and metallics. So, for summer 2007 big and bold is the style. Mix and match accessories with the easier trends in clothing this summer and you’ll be adorning your inner trendsetter! Most importantly, have fun with playing with integrating some of the summer 2007 fashion accessory trends into your wardrobe

The most interesting thing about fashion is that it’s ever changing. There’s always a possibility that what’s trending yesterday will be a taboo the next. And before you know it, a style that has long been forgotten has emerged once again and starts to rule the fashion space once more. If you come to think of it, it’s the like the water snake, which the Chinese believe is quite unpredictable. 2013 is the year of the water snake, and just like this reptile, you can add more fun to your year by being more adventurous and unpredictable with your style.

Create a New Fashion Statement. Creating a new fashion statement is not as difficult as it may seem. Try buying pieces from a high-end fashion shop and buy some from a low-end store. Combine them and see what you can get. With a little bit of creativity, you can come up with a real cool style that’s unique to you.

Buy Versatile Pieces. Before purchasing anything, whether it be a dress, a t-shirt, or a pair of jeans, think first of at least three ways you can match and wear it. This way, you can be sure that nothing inside your closet will be left unworn before the year ends.

Expand Your Shoe Collection. Your footwear can make or break your outfit. Expand your collection by buying at least one pair of shoe each season. You don’t have to spend thousands of bucks on several pairs, though. If you know where to look, you can definitely find shoes to match what’s already inside your closet without having to spend too much.

Experiment with Different Styles. Who says you can only have one fashion style? Again, this is the year to be more creative, so don’t limit yourself to a style you’re used to carrying. If you’ve had the same style for the past three years, it’s definitely time for you to come out of your shell and try something new. Why not experiment by mixing basic pieces with quirky ones? Or, how about you try that style you’ve been wanting to try out, but are just afraid it wouldn’t look good on you? Take the risk and see how it goes!

Just like the water snake, fashion can be very unpredictable. What is “in” now may be out of fashion the next few days or weeks. For this reason, learn to adjust and develop your own personal style, so that whatever happens with fashion this year, you can rest assured that you will have a style you can call your own at the end of the day.

Basic wardrobe planning may be more cohesive if you figure out your fashion style type. Some types of fashion, offered with the over-50 woman in mind, are:

arty or bohemian
sophisticated
sporty
suburban
professional
simply elegant (or elegant simplicity)
trendy or trend-setter.
romantic or sexy.
I call these fashion styles fashion archetypes, because they embody deeper needs and behaviors of our personalities. Expressing one of the types of fashion is a way of becoming the star of our own lives.

As we age, we may have to reassess our fashion style: The suburban mom takes a job and needs a professional wardrobe; the lawyer retires from her professional career and takes up her dream of landscape painting. The suits have to go.

Here are three advantages of basic wardrobe planning around a type of fashion that suits your personality and lifestyle:

Efficiency shopping and pulling an outfit together, even on the fly.
If you decide your fashion style is sporty, you’re less likely to splurge on that emerald green, ruffled jabot blouse that you will only wear once a year. After all, it hardly goes with the khaki and charcoal cotton slacks that are the core of your comfortable daily uniform.
Spending limited wardrobe budgets on what will give us the most use. Basic wardrobe planning involves figuring out what types of fashion we most need. It makes sense to add a black skirt to our professional wardrobe when we understand we’ve got 18 tops and three jackets to team with it. Shopping for an item we might have spurned as too ordinary becomes a fashion triumph.
Feeling well-dressed and comfortable on every occasion. The best fashion advice for women is to decide what feels good and looks good on you. Your personal fashion style emerges from that. What looks and feels good changes over time. Periodic reassessment is essential.
Here’s a summary of eight fashion archetypes.

ARTY/BOHEMIAN

The arty look is colorful, quirky, sometimes ethnic, and always fearless. Natural fabrics are preferred. A snowy white poet’s shirt, an embroidered jacket that goes from work to art gallery reception, and a luxurious handbag are suggestions for the bohemian wardrobe.

SOPHISTICATED

The corporate executive wife and the charity fund-raiser are some typical lifestyle choices of women who express their inner creativity with sophisticated fashions. Wardrobe suggestions are a Chanel suit, a silk dress, gold cloche earrings and a diamond pendant necklace.

SPORTY

This fashion style is tailored. A blazer jacket is a must. It can be worn with a variety of durable, washable cotton pants, such as khaki, a good choice for the active, outdoorsy woman. Sweaters and sweater sets work well. A silk T-shirt adds sophistication. Avoid fussy prints and ruffles.

SUBURBAN

Suburban fashion goes from town to country with ease. She visits a corporate office in tailored slacks, a fuchsia shirt, an elegantly tailored long jacket, and pumps appropriate for lunch at a chic restaurant. Then she’s off to a soccer game. The pumps are replaced by rubber-soled loafers, the jacket with a sweater. Pick garments for their versatility.

PROFESSIONAL

The professional fashion archetype loves suits – pantsuits for every day, skirt suits for court, a tuxedo suit for formal occasions, and a tailored dress when a skirt is a must. Choose suits and tops so you can mix-and-match for maximum versatility. Add an embroidered vest for pizzazz.

SIMPLY ELEGANT

If you’ve asked yourself What Would Jackie [Kennedy Onassis] Do?(book by Shelley Branch and Sue Callaway) Or What Would Audrey [Hepburn] Do? (by Pamela Keough), this is your fashion archetype. Stock your closet with solid colors and garments with simple lines such as the A-line, princess, and cheongsam dresses. Shop at designer consignment shops to achieve this look on a budget.

TRENDY/TREND-SETTER

The older woman who adopts the latest fashion trends may end up looking as if she is desperately clinging to her passing youth. For best effect, add fashion trends to classic costumes. For example, an outrageous jacket, with lots of bling and some feather accents, might be worn with simple black or white beneath. Experiment. Every fashion mistake can be changed tomorrow.

ROMANTIC

Flirty grows up after 50 or risks appearing as if life has passed her by. Ruffles, but not frills; clinging fabrics that hug curves without being skintight; and decollete that knows when to quit are hallmarks of the romantic fashion archetype. Strive for glamor and sensuality using texture and a bit of bling.

Take this fashion archetype quiz to learn more.

In summary, knowing and expressing your fashion archetype starts with identifying the fashion styles that fit your lifestyle and personality. Buy clothes that look and feel just right. Basic wardrobe planning is a snap when we build our clothes collection with our personal type of fashion in mind.

It will be a exciting thing of recognizing the latest fashion style people typically wear nowadays, whether it is about the trend of jeans and also the skirt. The whole thing is interesting when it comes to the discussion about the most favorite style.

Definitely, you can’t only depend on the recent trend to find the best clothes you can wear, but paying attention to the type of your body. You don’t want to be looked like a silly person of wearing the unfit clothes with your body, right? The main point in the “dictionary” of style is finding the best fit up to date clothes.

The fashion style will become something that always associated to the fashion trend.

The Five Body Types

Further about style, each woman has their own unique shape, and all of them are divided into big five types. The first is hourglass body shape. It is wider in the chest and hips, with a narrow waistline. The tailor is mostly often recommending the trendy belts, flowing skirts and v-neck tops to flatter your bustline.

And now, what about pear type? It is a body shape that narrower on top and wider on the bottom. In the current style, this type of body shape can try plenty of lovely options.

And then, the recent fashion style brings so a lot of fortunate for people with the petite figure, since there are many pieces in the newest style designed just for her. And the final shape that has the most widely opened options of the current style is a long, lean shape.

I often compare this exciting and colorful category to the wide ties, narrow ties, mini-skirts, long skirts, concept of jewelry design. You could easily sum it up with “what goes around, comes around”. This sometimes happens at what most would consider lightning speed. Fashion Jewelry is the fastest changing segment of the entire Jewelry industry. It has to be. And for good reason.

Remember when Fashion Jewelry was referred to as Costume Jewelry? Although the name is still used you have to admit the phrase Fashion Jewelry has a lot more appeal. Marketing experts and department store buying departments came up with an even more precisely defined term.Trend Jewelry. Trends and new trend-setting is really the whole point to this segment of the jewelry industry. The “why” is affordability. With retail prices in the single and low double digits you must have a super-fast turnover in inventory in order to have a profitable market. Rapid style change is necessary for creating a need, or at the very least, a desire to buy.

A few of the many ways these trends or fads get started are major manufacturers with talented designers who continue to create new and exciting styles. Also, costume designers and stylists behind the scenes of the television and film industry can sometimes be the real trend-setters in our pop culture environment. These people usually are the first to see new designs because vendors are literally kicking down their doors daily with the latest and hopefully “hottest” merchandise looking for exposure to huge audiences. In addition, major celebrities have personal shoppers that are seeking the very latest designs, usually in Fine Jewelry, for their clients. Soon after we see that $10,000.00 piece photographed on a celebrity in “Cosmo” it’s translated to the $10.00 version available at your nearest department store. As an example, the “Y Neck” enjoyed tremendous popularity just a few years ago. That particular style made it’s debut on the TV show “Friends.” This design was so red hot….. it’s back! Just change the name to Lariat and here we go again. Another winner!

Affordability of fashion jewelry is accomplished by mass production and the use inexpensive raw materials. Base metal (an all inclusive term for non-precious metals e.g.Tin, Lead, Nickel) is utilized. Beaded pieces may include anything from resin, wood, shell, seeds, crystals, glass and more. Style and color with perhaps a designer name is what you are paying for. Fashion or Trend Jewelry is fun. Wear it and enjoy! But like those skirts and ties….hang on to those pieces and in no time at all you’ll be right on top of the latest trend right in your own jewelry box

Just a Tip: When purchasing Fashion Jewelry Earrings always look for hooks or posts made from surgical steel.

In modern times, there are more and more people become fond of street observing. Most of them do this because they believe they can find the latest fashion trends from the clothing people wear in the street. If you want to know what design or style of clothing is popular now, all you should do is standing or sit somewhere in a corner of a busy street and watch young people go by. You can find they wear various kinds of fashion clothing. Fashion doesn’t only belong to a certain number of people and if you can observe carefully, you can learn and try to become an icon of fashion even you are only a common junior.

Even as a common junior, you may still have to attend some special occasions and have the need of formal or fashionable dresses. If you can master some fashion trends of junior dresses, then nothing can stop you from standing out in a crowd. Here are some useful tips.

Here I just want to list those fashionable and the most widely applied clothing designs among young people. And I believe if you want to do well in choosing clothes suit you best, you had better be clear that which kind of clothing you need. For a stylish junior, perhaps dress is the necessary kind of clothing he should own. Every person has dresses and knows it well. However even dress has various designs. If you can spend a little time and energy in choosing, you can make yourself beautiful easily. For example, nowadays many young girls like off shoulder dresses. This kind of dress perhaps is very simple, but it can show your beautiful collar bones perfectly. They even are called as “sundresses for juniors”. Another very popular dress design is the knee-length dress. This kind of dress makes juniors look smarter and bolder. Of course wearing such a dress asks you to wear a suitable pair of shoes. Sports shoes can be your good choice.

Not all the junior students like dresses. Some of them have more interests in tops. Just as dresses, tops still have many different kinds. Take the Bubble Top as an example, such a kind of clothing had better in a sleeveless style. Of course, you can choose another kind of clothing, Long Tops. Full sleeves and cashmere make for a deadly combo. You can choose skin-tight jeans or leggings and boots to match with it. I am sure dressing in this way can bring a formal image of a junior.

Even it is a little brief, you have got a basic impression of the fashion clothing trends of the junior. You can use them to design your own clothing style and make it work well.