Gold Brocade Looks

River Island - Young Women's Fashion

As Christmas draws nearer and festive party dressing makes the agenda, watch out for the glimmer of gold with brocade. This brocade look is in every range no matter what your age.

The golden brocade dress, to the left, is youthful especially, when teamed with the unusual, such as thick dark tights and gold platform shoes.

Left is a young women's dress by River Island, Jacquard Brocade Mini Shift Dress - bow detail at £59.99. This is a jacquard brocade dress in soft gold that is cut in a 60’s shift shape and finished with a simple bow for a romantic ethereal feel.

At River Island, accessories continue to play an important fashion role and reflect the overall mood of the season. The shoe collection features metallic wedges and stacked leather court shoes. You may also consider patent cutwork shoes and round toe ankle boots with chain and animal print trims.

Dorothy Perkins

At Dorothy Perkins, young women's fashion takes its inspiration from the 1960s and 1980s with hints of C17th romanticism in a collection that ticks all the trend boxes this season. You can see that the youthful look is achieved with a beret.

For the festive season, Dorothy Perkins have subtle metallic evening wear with both vintage inspired jacquards and shimmering Lurex.

Left - Image courtesy of Dorothy Perkins - Deep Gold Brocade Dress £50/€80. Cream and brown striped beanie £8/€12.

This gold brocade dress is one of the prettiest high street brocade dresses that I have seen whilst viewing PR images this season. You can see lots more gold tone colours and styles on the gold tone accessory page.

Gold is not the only metallic on offer, there are plenty of soft silver toned clothes around, from the palest shimmering dove grey ivory, to steel magnolia. Dorothy Perkins has a whole range of grey clothes, but my favourite is this slinky, silver jersey, sixties shift dress with a silver thread running through the knit fabric. See below.

Silver Looks

Sweater dresses are a big look this fall 2006. This simple long sleeved 60's straight knit shift, in silver grey and from Dorothy Perkins has a Lurex thread running through it. Silver Lurex mini dress £25/€40. Leopard print envelope bag £8/€12.

It is perfect for relaxed festive winter evenings and could look great showing plenty of leg just as the model does. Or, it could be teamed with leggings and worn like a tunic or gain a more kooky twist with any type of boots.

Slinky and shimmering, this straight empire line shift right from French Connection can be worn belted as show here or unbelted if you prefer. Silver fully sequinned dress from French Connection is £150. Fabulous and a classic to add the party wardrobe!

Team it with classy jewellery and a brocade or a black velvet cropped jacket, feather shrug or cape.

To make this French Connection liquid silver dress right more versatile over Christmas, you could wear it 60's style as a pinafore dress over a black polo neck cashmere or skinny rib sweater.

Leggings and Footless Tights

Use the layering technique to add warmth through a festive day like Christmas Eve. Wearing boots with the silver dress would add a different dimension. You can play the glitz up or down. Play it down with opaque or lace tights.

Make sure you have some footless leggings like these from Shine New York, so you can play dress-up at home to work out some fresh new looks for fall. Or get some three quarter leggings like these from Marks and Spencer.

Footless tights and footless leggings will have different wearing qualities so make sure you understand the difference between these when you shop. Price reflects the thickness, quality, depth of dye, laddering, comfort factors, extensibility of the fabric and wearing elasticity. Footless tights can be priced around £2- £5, footless leggings are more likely to cost £10 to £20. Check the quality of samples the shop displays. Leggings should fit like a second skin and not be prone to bagging.

Silver and Gold Shoes

These inexpensive silver shoes right are from Matalan. These fashion shoes would team well with many silver grey outfits. Metallic block heel shoe at £14.

Different shoes can make the appearance of an outfit look quite altered and present an opportunity to reflect your personality.

These gold ballet flats below are from Marks and Spencer and would look good teamed with brocades too. The silver peep toe ballet flat is also very girly. You can buy any of these three shoes from the picture links.

If you would like to see more details of these snakeskin effect shoes, with cone heels, there is a link to Marks and Spencer in the above picture.