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Women's Fashion Forecast Winter 2008/09

Nomadic Outerwear

By Diane Pinnick

Influences from Cossack military and dark-and-tortured Goth to monochromatic minimalism and fun-and-frivolous Bohemian can be seen in an explosion of outerwear styles showing up on the runway and in design houses for Fall and Winter.

The trench, a travel essential, reigns as fashion centerpiece. Look for both compact shorter and languid longer styles in luxury fabrics. Women will enjoy short, boxy jackets in leather and tweeds but plaids are must-haves. If you add only one piece to your wardrobe this season, let it be plaid and make it the focal point. No more swinging-trapeze pattern lines of summer.
Fall coat silhouettes have inched in this season to match figure-skimming fashions and belts are back, cinching in one of the defining differences between men and women.

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