Fall-Winter Fashion Trends 2008

Fall's here and winter's coming. It's time to move out old clothes from your wardrobe and make space for new apparel to suit the season. But before you go on your shopping spree, you may want to consider what's on the runways for Fall/Winter 2008.

'Sexy and classy' are the features defining fashion this fall and winter. Sculpted architectural shapes in regal purples, soft grays and flesh tones are in. This season the waist has made a come back, with belted swing coats, curvy dresses, nipped-in waist coats and pencil skirts.

While tailored jackets and wide-legged pants work for the office, for casual wear your turtlenecks and boot-cut jeans can remain. Also try the fringed furs and peasant headscarves of the Russian doll folklore trend which has made an appearance with distinctive shapes this season.

Plaid prints are in too. Mismatched colors and geometric patterns dominate skirts, tops, dresses and tights. Dolce and Gabbana and Ralph Lauren are the designers who have a passion for plaid this season. However, you do not have to do away with your floral prints to make way for geometric patterns. Floral prints in dark shades defy fashion trends this fall and winter.

Oversize cable knits and off-shoulder Cashmere sweaters have replaced the wool coats. Overall, jewel tones, purples, loads of black and gray and rusty copper colors dominate this season. So, keep these trends in mind while you're shopping. But also remember to choose something you're comfo

table in- because comfort is the best trend of all seasons.

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