Sleeveless Coat

I wanted to start with the fact that this new fashionable thing is still mainly fun of the catwalks and is not widely popular in our country, but right now for half an hour I met two girls in a sleeveless coat and they looked, I must say, very impressive. Means, all the same uses? And, obviously, deserved.

The fashion industry does not stand still, stereotypes are actively broken down, the boundaries of consciousness are moving apart, and a fashionable thing comes into being that more recently it would have been difficult to imagine in our wardrobe — a coat without sleeves that allows you to create unusual “ordinary images.

The main feature of a sleeveless coat is that it is not quite like a coat. But even a long sleeveless jacket or vest doesn’t dare to call it — after all, this is a rather elegant thing, even if sometimes with an emphasis on sporty style.

Sometimes they try to call him a cape, but this is not entirely correct. Cape is almost a poncho, but tailored, taking into account the line of the shoulders, free-standing or on the figure, as a rule, without sleeves, but with slots for arms. The coat without sleeves is a coat, elegant or piquant, strict or provocative, sports or military.

Despite the fact that the coat without sleeves only recently descended from the catwalks to ordinary women, the number of models surprises with its diversity:

• Coat vest. The English style, a strict silhouette, to which the fact that it is after all a coat, gives a special piquancy.

• A sleeveless coat-cardigan is distinguished by two details at once - it is without a collar, like a real, but elongated cardigan, and without sleeves.

• Lightweight sleeveless coat. One of the favorite details of the wardrobe of the unsmiling wife of a famous football player, Victoria Beckham. In the summer it looks especially unbanal, but always very stylish.

• Sleeveless coat with slits for arms. Just the same Cape, which was mentioned above. Both men and women can wear.

• Coat without sleeves with a hood. As a kind of casual style or, if you add sneakers, a sporty look, but this sporty accent is also quite elegant.

A sleeveless coat can be, like a real coat, short (very much like a vest), medium length (this length accounts for most of the diversity of such coats) and very long (which is especially suitable for tall girls).

• Summer models of a coat without sleeves are sewn from cotton material, lace with lining. Such a thing is very beautiful, made of jacquard fabric.
• Warmer models are made from tweed, cashmere, wool.

• Especially stylish and unusual looks such a coat entirely of leather or suede or with inserts of these materials.
• Interesting models with fur trim or completely made of fur, natural or artificial.

The colors of the sleeveless coat are no different from their “full-fledged” relatives - the same variety of colors. White and black are classic, beige and gray are elegance, blue and green colors are very effective, a shocking red coat of this style cannot fail to draw attention to its owner.

The main thing is to remember that the coat is outerwear, and it is this model that, due to the absence of sleeves, obliges to combine it with the rest of the clothes in both color and stylistic terms.

The season when you can wear a sleeveless coat at the same time is both long and short - on the one hand, especially in our country, often either too hot for him or too cold, on the other hand - it can be worn at the end of spring and in summer, and with the onset of autumn.

And for the ladies behind the wheel, this period is extended for some more time - driving a car in such a coat is very convenient. Therefore, a sleeveless coat is worn, figuratively speaking, when there is no frost, but the heat has not come yet.

When choosing what to wear with such a model coat, you must proceed from the planned image and weather conditions.

• For casual style - straight cut, laconic design in combination with jeans of different styles, turtlenecks (light or warm, depending on the season). An interesting accessory will be short knitted gloves. With jeans or sneakers, a casual look will easily turn into a sporty style.
• For the office - calm colors of strict, but elegant coats with pencil skirts or narrow jeans and shoes with a steady heel.

• For romantic encounters - elegant fitted, bright colors of a coat without sleeves with light dresses of neutral colors and stilettos. If your dress has short sleeves, or your arms are generally bare, then leather long gloves will be the perfect complement to the romantic look.

As is the case with ordinary coats, the rule with a sleeveless coat should work: one thing should be voluminous. If your coat has a flare style, then prefer narrow jeans, trousers or pencil skirts.

Handbag is also better to choose a small one. If you choose a tight-fitting style, then your appearance in flared trousers will be very effective.

Consider also that if your coat is decorated with a massive collar, then the shoes should balance your silhouette, which means that boat shoes should be left for lighter models and put on ankle boots or half boots.

• Christian Dior offers a combination of a sleeveless coat of pure and saturated colors with trapezoid-shaped dresses or thin elongated sweaters.

• The short and rather heavy-looking coats of two types of Max Mara drape are complemented by a straight skirt made of golden fabric with a reptile-leather effect and covered with shoes of similar material. Hands remain naked.

• An unusual image from Givenchi's designers is a velvet dark green coat with a small fold-over brocade collar, and to it are spicy short black gloves made of translucent black fabric.

• Very stylish model from Hermes - in fact, a cardigan made of combined fabric with a very beautiful autumn color scheme (ocher, brown, dark green), with rounded floors, without a collar and fastener, with a red strap of reptiloid pattern.

• For women, the preferred military style is a careless and rough coat made of felt-like fabric from Isabel Marant.

• A checkered coat with a zipper, white fluffy collar, worn over a thin, colorful sweater, complemented by leather gloves, loose high-waisted trousers and flat-soled shoes — an extremely cozy looking image from Rodarte.

• Once again, the unsurpassed Victoria Beckham is an ivory sleeveless summer coat with a delicate zipper on the side. Fashionable, easily recognizable style.

• A trapezoid gray-blue coat with a smell, wide shawl collar, decorated with black lace, complemented with wide trousers with cuffs of the same color and black gloves to the elbow - a somewhat unexpected, “pajama” version by Antonio Marras.

The summer coat without sleeves is almost without a collar, but with large cuffs of the shelves themselves, the color of coffee with milk looks extremely elegant with a light dress, a large tonal clutch and sandals.

Another summer option in which you will definitely not go unnoticed - a green coat without sleeves and a collar, of medium length, with a striking geometric pattern, on a wide belt, perfectly combined with a long turquoise skirt of soft knit fabric and a lace short-sleeved t-shirt. color with a skirt. In addition - a green fabric scarf, green shoe boots made from cut leather on a heel, large plastic bracelets, silver earrings from turquoise and an elegant bag-bag in white and turquoise colors.

No less elegant and sophisticated look, but the weather is cooler, you will have a black short coat with a cut-off waistband skirt and a black-and-white sweater with a high neck. This, along with skinny jeans, worn blue color and closed suede high-heeled shoes with ribbon lacing will also fit alongside. A small handbag made of perforated leather with a long strap, large jewelry and watches will harmoniously complement the image of a confident lady.

A stylish option for a walk is a striped coat without sleeves, the style of which imitates a dress with a smell, a striped pencil skirt also imitates the smell, a salmon-colored shirt blouse, stilettos with coral-white patches. Large jewelry in the same strip, a watch on a long strap of coral color, a small handbag-tablet and ... a bright red hat. Quiet shocking - is not the name for the new style?

On already quite cold weather - a sweater with braids of warm sand color and a brown semi-fitted coat without sleeves and a collar, with wide lapels of front shelves with a belt of the same color just looks amazing with narrow blue jeans and ankle boots made of ocher material. You will be even more elegant if you take your bag as an accessory a tone darker than jeans and horn-rimmed sunglasses with a tortoise color.

A sleeveless coat is no stranger to even a sporty style — a burgundy coat with a shawl collar and a wide belt, skinny jeans of the same color, matching sneakers and a bright patterned sweater. Accessories - watches with burgundy strap, black sunglasses and a medium-sized black bag.

And the outfit for the most daring - all in the orange-red range: from a sleeveless coat in the style of the same Victoria Beckham and a tropical floral pattern to orange sandals from straps on a heel.