FROM MISS AMERICA TO MINI MOUSE

1926 - Miss America was photographed in a polka dot swimsuit.
1928 - Disney introduced its cartoon darling Minnie Mouse wearing a red polka dot dress and matching bow
1930's - polka dot dresses appeared in stores, the fabric suddenly subversive, nipped in by ribbons and accentuated with bows
1940 -  Frank Sinatra’s ballad “Polka Dots and Moonbeams” captured the height of America’s polka dot mania
1951 - M.Monroe was famously photographed wearing a polka dot bikini
1960's - the artist Yayoi Kusama became known for the busy dotted swarms that covered her paintings




This polka-dot dress was shot in a beautifully decorated Italian restaurant in Barcelona - Vivo Tapas Restaurant.

ONE PIECE OUTFIT

Light and flowy midi and maxi dresses have always been my go to one piece outfit choice, today I wear my polka-dot dresses and tops all year through, this year I wore them over jeans with a leather jacket and with color blocking boots (pictured in red) in Fall and sandals in Spring.






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Seems like this Spring 2013.season started way early in stores this season and pushed out those Winter sales dressing us in Spring's beiges, whites, dots and ruffles already now when it is still quite cold outside.
 
Karl Lagerfled said couple of years back: "The future of fashion is 6 months" , I would actually upgrade and fast forward this statement saying that fashion industry now became such a fast pace industry that now with resort, pre-season and regular season collection launches it's turn around period is 2-3 months which is quite a big challenge both for creative teams but also sales and distribution teams.

This again leads to unavoidable trend in fashion which is - bringing back and upgrading traditional cuts, fabrications and patterns. After covering Spring 2013. color trends white & yellow, with this post I am covering polka dots trend which I like and can imagine myself wearing if dots are really small white on black and ruffles trend which for me is an upgrade of overused peplum trend in last two fashion seasons.


Here are some of my favorite polka doted and ruffled designed pieces with my absolute favorite being Stéphane Rolland, Gucci and Balenciaga. 


           


                       
                                Photo source: www.vogue.com | Balenciaga Spring 2013. RTW


                                    Photo source: www.vogue.com | Gucci Spring 2013. RTW


What about you ladies, are you up for ruffles, polka dots or both? :)