The 5 Affordable Pieces Fashion Girls Can't Stop Wearing

November 24, 2017

Author: Danielk Cedeno

The 5 Affordable Pieces Fashion Girls Can't Stop Wearing

Being on trend doesn't always mean spending a bomb on new 'It-pieces'. Sometimes the key is styling your existing wardrobe in fresh and interesting ways, or rediscovering trends that are officially 'cool again'. But sometimes, just sometimes, the pieces of the season are so deliciously affordable that you can have your cake and eat it too.

And in a nice turn of events, spring/summer '18 is one of those seasons.

Here we round up the five fashion pieces cool girls are wearing on repeat this season. The best part? They all come in under the $120 mark.Read more at:

In the 1960s, the fashion world turned "topsy-turvy," as TIME noted in 1967. Nearly every aspect of that revolutionary decade, from the civil-rights movement to the space race, was somehow reflected in the clothing worn by American women.

The book Mod New York: Fashion Takes a Trip, which is being released in coordination with a show of the same name at the Museum of the City of New York (opening Wednesday), takes a look at the influences behind and lasting influence of American fashion in the years between 1960 and 1973. As this sampling of photos shows, fashion's reach was broad, stretching all the way to the White House.

As the book notes, for a long time before this period, American fashion hadn't actually been all that American. High fashion, after all, was synonymous with France. But during World War II, when trade and communication with Paris grew more difficult, French designers' counterparts in New York City stepped up. By 1960, as John and Jacqueline Kennedy — whose personal style was often drawn from French influences — floated into the White House with an aura of American youth, the idea of truly American fashion was not so far-fetched.

One of the most meaningful post-show bows ever taken at a fashion presentation was when the entire Christian Dior atelier came out on stage at the end of its 2011 fall/winter Haute Couture collection. Fifteen-year creative head John Galliano had just been infamously dismissed, and the full team's appearance was a gesture that highlighted the fact that a designer for a brand is only one cog in the creative execution wheel.

It's that awareness that Royal Ontario Museum fashion curator Dr. Alexandra Palmer wants to impart to those who visit the museum's Christian Dior exhibit, which opens Nov. 25, and focuses on the first decade of the house from 1947 to 1957. Many of the garments that will be on display are from the ROM's own archives, donated over the years by Toronto's society set. I spoke with Dr. Palmer about how Canadian women acquired these Parisian Haute Couture garments, the genius of Christian Dior, and the lure of fashion-focused museum exhibits.