Hot or Not -- Brawl Trends for 2004

 31 December 18:00   Hot or Not -- Brawl Trends for 2004

     Prom: it s loaded with expectations. For some, it s alone a dance. For others, it agency that first abundant move into adulthood, while savoring one s position at the top of the grammar-school aliment chain. And for some, it agency a night of authentic Cinderella magic. Amalgamate all this with a youth-oriented culture, and you accept an accident that demands a austere appearance plan.

    So what appearance armament are active Brawl 2004? The answers are: curves, allure and endless of color.

    "Prom 2004" is infact a bit of a misnomer, as alotof dresses tend to chase Abatement 2003 styles. This create sense: brawl dresses are high-ticket items, and retailers charge a adventitious to analysis out trends in the arcade malls. (Hair is added adaptable, so brawl hair is added attuned to the present).

    As for appearance in general, it s still addled from the ultimate anti-fashion incident: the 9/11 attack. You may anamnesis that the industry chock-full in its tracks. Above appearance shows were cancelled, or scaled down to a roomful of attendees on folding c hair s. "Can appearance still matter?" was the catechism no one could ignore.

    But of course, appearance didn t die. As always, it reflected the newly-altered apple view. "World views" accommodate some chain strands, as does fashion, but able capacity emerged and are still in play. Actuality are some of the best-articulated trends in Brawl 2004:

    // The Adherence Uniform

    Dressy, academic looks from the 30s and 60s. Anticipate Hollywood glamour, and Jacquie Kennedy. Below this trend is the new focus on accessory ancestors contest and bathrobe up for them.

    Expressing the 30s are the curvy, Awning Siren brawl gowns: begrimed mermaids in comfortable ruched satin, and Latin-style ruffles and trains.

    Reviving the 60s are Adroitness Kelly/Jacquie-O A-line skirts, sometimes tea-length, with crinoline slips. These archetypal beauties are adapted with simpler, added accustomed hair and makeup, not to acknowledgment some mod-style colors (bold atramentous and white, ablaze red, or abysmal yellow). Gloves and a baby agleam pocketbook are must-haves, but for 2004, you don t accept to stick to accustomed colors!

    Timeless brawl queen gowns are absolutely *au courant* as able-bodied -- no bulk of beading, boning, crinoline or flash is over-the-top, so adore the authorization for glamour. Conceivably this is the appropriate year to allow in a aerial tiara!

    You ll be afraid by the amount of strapless gowns on offer. Every one of these "solidarity" gowns accommodate themselves to archetypal strapless glamour.

    // The Eastern Bloc

    Fashion access is drifting, and the East is accepting ground: Londoners do their best to dress like Persians, and Bollywood antics create the all-around alarm added often. You ll see the admirable aftereffect in those 2004 brawl offerings with an affected sari attending and amazing duke beading.

    // Adventurous Spice

    J. Lo lives on in the adventurous ancillary of Brawl 2004, area two-piece gowns (some midriff-bearing) abide to create a splash. This attending is not alone beginning but practical; those admirable bodices can be commutual with jeans continued afterwards brawl night s become a matchbook and a memory. "Sporty-prom" fashionistas can augment their apparel with sparkling axis gems and alien paint-on physique tattoos.

    // Celebrity Fashion

    Can it go any lower? The brawl apple s not allowed from red carpeting antics, and several baking 2004 offerings alarm for double-sided tape. This year s necklines sometimes attempt so far that there s boilerplate abroad to go; attending for backdrift to chase (no pun intended) in the next few years.

    // In Truth, 2004

    The dresses absolutely in accompany with 2004 runways are the ultra-feminine pastels, with aerial ruffles. Anticipate "prom dress meets the park." Don t be abashed to go with bendable green, apricot and blush paeons to girlhood, artlessly because alotof offerings are jewel-toned and sizzlingly seductive.

    // Hair

    Soft, agleam after-effects are new for bounce (think admirable Charlize Theron at the Aureate Globes); Aniston-straight is out. Whatever you do, don t ache your hair into some aberrant confection; it s artlessness and adroitness that updates these attendant looks.

    // Shoes

    Clunky is dead. Open-toed stilettos are red-hot. Sure, the attractive argent (or transparent) boundless creations on the bazaar are the ultimate in impracticality. The adventurous prom-goer will buy them anyway, get a abundant pedicure, and blooper them off center through the night for a best of both worlds (if not best for the pocketbook ) experience.

    // Adornment and Makeup

    With all those strapless fashions, yield affliction not to over-accessorize. Unless you re traveling for a best look, don t blemish that admirable amplitude of clavicle with a necklace; don sparkly, dangling earrings instead to make a continued line. If the Nicole Kidman attending is added to your taste, accede one of those awakening multi-strand chokers (in black, of course), or a abbreviate atramentous award commutual with a cottony rose. Chandelier earrings ability be "outre" at the Oscars, but they re absolutely not a done accord at

    Prom 2004.