Remember the Little House on the Prairie? Get ready to plunder Laura Ingalls Wilder's wardrobe this season as prairie chic returns.
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Prairie style has romantic, feminine look appeal teamed with a hardy, free-spirited air - they look better with a smudge of mud or a grass stain. If we think back to Little House on the Prairie, the heroines were brave brilliant women and girls who worked all day in the sun, often facing poverty, cold winters and drought-ridden summers.
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This season, prairie chic returns and its reinvention has a sensual feel to it. Designers, from Erdem and Alexander McQueen to Philosophy and Simone Rocha, added touches of sheer fabric and cut-out detailing offering a modern edge.
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This translated to dresses decorated with flowers, with bare shoulders on display - as if the sleeves had been ripped and never repaired. Coach took a more optimistic view on the trend - its spring/summer 2016 catwalk was transformed into a meadow; models wearing delicate floral patchwork prints, ruffle skirts and drop waist minidresses walked among tall grass.
So how to be a modern prairie girl? This is a look that can easily veer into either fancy dress or sickly sweet territories, so styling is key. Wear a yoke print blouse with a pair of boyfriend jeans or a pretty prairie dress with a pair of chunky biker boots or lace-up jack boots. Throw a leather jacket or a parka over the top of more traditional styles, or wear one of this season's pretty ruffle skirts with a boyish sweater. Alexa Chung wears her prairie dress with PVC boots, which makes for an interesting juxtaposition, while Kate Bosworth demonstrated how the trend can be worn for night when created in delicate tulle.
It's high time boho was made to step aside - get ready for the wild free prairie girls.
by ELLA ALEXANDER
Source: Glamour UK