One-Dollar Wonders

28 Comments

• Meredith1953 replied 11 years ago

  I never met a stripe I didn't like. Even the horizontal ones that have a "broadening" effect on me. Oh...and I really like polka dots too!

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• Lisa replied 11 years ago

  I have no patterns to attach but I've never met a butterfly print I didn't like. I always enjoy stripes and polka dots too.

• Inge replied 11 years ago

  I think I like them all (or just about)!-) Stripes, polka dots, strong graphic patterns, abstract floral prints, chevron, animal prints (that's fairly new for me)...

• rae replied 11 years ago

  Print lust, volume 2! Repeated racecar image. I die.

  http://www.farfetch.com/shoppi.....04024.aspx

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• Mo replied 11 years ago

  I have been moving backwards of the trend. I had lots of patterns 3 to 5 years ago and very few now. I like geometric and swirly patterns the most. The whimsical patterns intrigue me but not sure I could wear one.

• annagybe replied 11 years ago

  Tropical, Stella McCartney, Mary Katrantzou (I have to look up her name every time to spell it), Dries Van Noten.

• rae replied 11 years ago

  Mary Katrantzou has been bringing down the house, I agree!

• MsMary replied 11 years ago

  Stripes and dots!

  And I loved the Stella McCartney fruit print!

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• Keix replied 11 years ago

  I love color and pattern, but

  1. I coveted this black-and-white floral print when I first saw it at Anthropologie last spring, and then again when they used the same fabric for a different dress this spring. I finally ended up tracking down my size in the original dress, from an online seller, and am SO excited to get it.

  2. I can't afford this dress even at 40% off, and the shape is impractical for my petite 32A bust--but oh, the pattern is just gorgeous.

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• fern replied 11 years ago

  Ooh, you guys made me google Mary Katrantzou - wow.
  I still have my retro love for Art Nouveau prints and I guess the Liberty satchel is Arts & Crafts.

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• Joy replied 11 years ago

  My favorite types of prints just now are the kind that looks like a modern art painting and not repeated:
  http://shop.nordstrom.com/S/al.....tback=8079
  or an oriental motif:
  http://shop.nordstrom.com/S/ci.....56-0-0-1-2
  Neither of these examples are the best of the type but all I could find quickly.

• Sveta replied 11 years ago

  Well, stripes, dots and animal print goes without saying! Other than that I really like my schizophrenic Pucci-like dress LOL

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• Amy replied 11 years ago

  Paint splatters!

  http://cdn3.diyfashion.com/sit.....main01.jpg

• Abie replied 11 years ago

  I love patterns and have new favorites every day. Today I've been oohing over this Igigi maxi dress. I have no good occasion to wear a dress like this but It's sooooo pretty!

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• Kari replied 11 years ago

  Polka dots, ikat, diagonal stripes, organic patterns that resemble coral, water ripples, or grass/leaves (like the patterns in these dresses, also small-scale patterns that are arranged like diagonal stripes, tweed a la these shoes.

• Aida replied 11 years ago

  Had to think about this one. There's the perennial favorites (geometric anything but especially stripes, checks, chevron; and abstracts), but this season I seem to be really drawn to "slightly abstract" prints. I haven't seen a lot of them, which is probably I didn't add as much print to my wardrobe this season as I'd hoped. Some of my current faves from my wardrobe:

  1/2 - slightly abstract ikat prints
  3 - slightly abstract chevron print
  4 - slightly abstract check
  5 - slightly abstract floral

  EDIT: I also reeeaaaallyyyy want some cosmic prints!!

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• catgirl replied 11 years ago

  My dropwaist dress has that floral riot gradation going on, but it's very abstract and I love it!

  Haven't been eying many patterns lately, but I need to get into them more...

• Deborah replied 11 years ago

  The only pattern I am wishing for at the moment would be this one! I love the black and cream and the butterflys.

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• ManidipaM replied 11 years ago

  'Current' loves
  - Scarf prints
  - Oriental-style prints that might have been inspired by a kimono or a Chinese watercolour
  - Oversized brushstrokes in inky hues
  - Ikat-like abstract/geometrics
  - Animal/bird/butterfly conversational prints, of which I like best the ones that resemble detailed guidebook/naturalists' notebook illustrations (ie, hyper-realistic) and the simplest silhouettes; though I rather like the Miu Miu too, I usually don't enjoy more 'animated' renditions
  - speaking of silhouettes, I saw a couple of cameo-inspired prints I liked
  - soft florals (and I usually hate those, but right now there are some great interpretations, and I especially veer to the more oriental ones)
  - chalky white or inky 'scribbles' and 'naive art' or doodles such a child might make
  - chevrons and nested diamonds and Missoni-like zigzag stripes that recall old-fashioned Florentine embroidery

  Polka dots with florals a la Cath Kidston and stripes are things I've always loved, as well as tweedy checks and houndstooth, ginghams (especially pink, red and yellow), plaids both tartan and madras-style. Those are perennials to me, as are the traditional 'figured' ikats of India --- the ones where the pattern draws a set of flowers, or fish, or temple spires, or trees, or an elephant, a doll, a chariot... I love the evocative nature of it, using a technique where the outlines are always blurred and abstract.

  Hmm, I love pattern, don't I?

• lyn67 replied 11 years ago

  I can't recall exactly, but Nancy had a simillar thread on prefferate patterns somewhere in May/June? Love to see your faves Rae, Aida, and others. will try to edit with mines, when I get home:-)

• Angie replied 11 years ago

  What Inge said :) - although I've been wearing animal print accessories forever.

  I hope you find the perfect cat print, Rae. The Mui Mui one is brilliant. If you come across a Yorkie print, let me know.

• Jamie replied 11 years ago

  Ditto Inge for me, too! I'm not so much into conversational prints, but if it's the right one in the right colors, I might change my mind.

• replied 11 years ago

  Aside from stripes and animal prints, I am loving paisley and other patterns with curved, undulating lines.

• Isabel replied 11 years ago

  Abie, what a FABULOUS dress. I too an a stripes girl. I am jut starting to wear polka dots.
  And I LOVED Vicki's post the other day with the Pucci-like dress. Aida's number 5 is great too.

  For me, the big thing is trying new colors and combos.

  ETA : Vicki's Maggie London Dress.

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• Tanya replied 11 years ago

  I have developed a huge crush on the prints this season. I have always loved stripes and polka dots, but now I really like animal patterns a lot too. I have just got my first leopard blouse, and would really love a bird and a cat print too. I am swooning over this Chloe cat/tree blouse.

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• JulieJohn replied 11 years ago

  Rae, that racecar print is grrrrreat!

  I often reminisce about a pair of white pants I used to have with black sketched dinosaurs all over. Triceratops, T-Rex, and I believe Stegosaurus. I used to wear it with a trio of bright t-shirts (not all at once, just individually) in aqua, purple, or hot pink. It was dynamite. I always felt brainy wearing those pants!

• christieanne replied 11 years ago

  I love all the prints Aida posted.
  Have added a bunch of prints to my closet recently - several variations on Ikat, polka dots, two stripes and some abstracts. I like graphic prints as opposed to watercolors I think in general although I did pick up two sweaters that have vaguely Claude Monet Waterlilies influence.
  It helps me to think of patterns in terms of Art and then I can consider what I know I like. I think if I would hang it on my wall or display in home (ikat = tribal rug) then I could wear it.

• jayne replied 11 years ago

  So much great inspiration here.

  I am loving the Moschino zigzags and Ikat prints this year.
  and flowers are on most of my blouses. Big flowers. not ditzy

  vertical pinstripes are always fab!