The wardrobe of every woman without fail has dresses of various styles and fabrics. The arsenal certainly has a casual, warm and cocktail dress. A special place is reserved for outfits for evening outings and celebrations. In such a decoration, every woman feels like a queen, puts it on infrequently and therefore approaches the choice of evening dress with special care.
Special Occasion Dress
An outfit where you can go to a social party, a restaurant or a holiday, differs from casual wear in the texture of the fabric and style. It is to such exclusively festive attire that a brocade dress can be attributed.
This fabric is characterized by a characteristic luster, due to the presence of metallized threads in it, as well as patterned patterns. Wearing a brocade dress, a woman can feel like a special royal blood, because before, such a fabric was used exclusively for sewing the garments of nobles.
The brocade dress looks exceptionally beautiful and elegant. But the fabric is rather capricious, therefore, choosing an outfit from this material, it is necessary to take into account some nuances.
Varieties of fabric
Brocade dresses embroidered with precious stones have historically been the privilege of wealthy people. This is explained by the fact that only natural materials were used to give the material a luxurious shine and majestic heaviness: silk, satin in combination with gold and silver threads.
Modern technologies make it possible to reduce the cost of brocade production: this makes the fabric more affordable and at the same time light.
However, even now there is a gradation of fabrics in quality and price: the more natural materials used in a brocade dress, the more expensive it will be and demanding in care. A material dominated by synthetic yarns may be more affordable, easy to maintain, but it will look less noble and luxurious.
Features of styles
A distinctive feature of brocade fabric is that it is quite heavy, but at the same time it keeps its shape perfectly. This is widely used by designers and fashion designers, creating a dress from brocade. Evening attire may differ in a strict silhouette, a long skirt with a train or flared sleeves. Brocade evening dress can differ in a complex cut: a large number of draperies, complex folds, asymmetric length - the fabric allows you to realize the wildest fantasies of designers.
Often this fabric is chosen for cocktail or casual dresses. Sewing brocade dresses takes into account the characteristics of the fabric, which holds complex shapes well. Therefore, in such dresses, models with skirts in the form of a tulip or a bell, sleeves-lanterns, detachable bodices and other options with a clearly defined silhouette are often used.
Brocade has ceased to be an “age” fabric - in addition to cocktail and everyday women's dresses, this material is widely used in children's fashion collections. A brocade dress for a girl usually has a wide bell skirt, which, thanks to the properties of the material, keeps its shape perfectly and looks elegant.
What to wear?
Preferring a brocade dress for an evening or everyday look, you should carefully select the accessories with special care and caution. The texture of the material, which most often has a large amount of glitter and patterns, is itself very saturated. Therefore, it is important not to overload your image with glitter and details: you should not wear jewelry with stones to brocade dress, be it jewelry or diamonds.
A brocade dress can be successfully supplemented with a modest styling, neat small earrings and a plain clutch. Shoes are best to choose classic: monophonic dark or light boats without shine and accessories.
Brocade fabric itself is very catchy and elegant, so overloaded with shiny accessories or a complex hairstyle can make the image too “cheap” or even vulgar.
How to choose your dress?
Modern fashion offers a wide selection of dresses from brocade to any figure and taste. When choosing you should be guided by the following principles:
- Pay attention to the composition of the fabric. There are models of brocade products that require special washing and ironing conditions; some of them can only be dry cleaned.
- Choose a dress according to the characteristics of the figure. Slender girls will wear dresses with almost any silhouette, but girls with curvaceous shapes should be careful. The brilliant texture of brocade can emphasize any, even the most insignificant, excess weight in the waist and hips.
- Pay attention to size: if the fabric contains a large percentage of natural yarn, then shrinkage after washing is very likely. Therefore, you should not choose a dress of the minimum size.
- When trying on a dress, it is worth considering the lighting in which it is planned to be worn. Brocade metallized threads shimmer, so they can look different under different lighting conditions, emphasizing the complexion of the owner of the dress favorably or loosely.
If you can’t find anything suitable in stores and boutiques, you can contact the designer to make an evening dress for an individual order. Sewing dresses from a fashion designer is a great way to take into account all the subtleties of appearance and any nuances of the figure. Sitting on a figure such an outfit would be ideal.
A brocade dress is a great option for an evening out or dinner at a restaurant. Properly selected outfit will allow you to feel royally luxurious and get a lot of compliments from others.