Fashion for the rains!!!

The weather's pleasant, the leaves are moist, the sky is dark, the roads are wet and are your clothes too. Oh boy, is the dampness in the weather coming in your way of style. Stop right here, pick up these tips and make your rainy style statement.

1.Hurry up, go buy a bag made either of plastic or a rexine, worth a rain investment.

2. Gum boots; answer to your rain prayers. If you have someone coming from abroad ask them to pick up a pair of gum boots in whichever colour you like. After all you don't wanna be victimized with the dirt around you.

3. Don't wait for winters, grab your windcheaters now and step out. Here locally, the designs ain't great. So, try picking up one from any of the sports store. Abroad, you get hot patterns and designs even for a windcheater, try calling one for yourself. Vibrant colours like pink, orange, blue, green would do wonders and give you a distinctive appeal as well.

4.Splish, splash, splish, splash.. make some noise this monsoon with your new chic rain shoes. Few obvious buys would be crocs, floaters and slipons but if you want chic, it has to be Bata. Step into a Bata store and you will find a whole range of rain shoes. The one which really caught my eye was a pair of ballet shoes, available in all colours from white to blue to purple to maroon to pink and beige. The smartest buy of the season at just Rs 300,so run and grab your pair.
This blue one is my pair of rain shoes which i picked up from Bata.

5. Girls, get all your skirts out of the closet now or they'll simply rot inside in this weather. Short or knee length skirt, tight or flowy, denim or linen.. whatever and however, but make sure that you have enough of this piece of clothing stacked up. For investing in cheap skirts take a trip to Bandra linking road, hill road and Colaba causeway.

6. Short pants, short pants and more of short pants; the style funda this season... Call it capris, knee pants or three quarter pants; all these will suit just fine when teamed up with a shirt or a tee. Keep your full pants off the dirt.

7. Now is the time to wear all those old clothes which you'd hidden deep inside your wardrobe. Just accessorize them a little bit or get creative with them. Make a bag, a scarf or a belt out of them, alter them, get embroidery done or just get them restitched in new design.

8. Caps and bandanas should be brought to use in these rains. So no worries even if your windcheater is not hooded, you have something to save your head from these showers.

9. A tip for the office goers; keep an extra pair of clothing and shoes in your drawers. You never know when, where and how you might need them.

10. Get regular pedicures done to save yourself from the embarrassment of dirty feet.

Keep it short, plastic, cotton and non transparent this monsoon. Enjoy the rains till it lasts and shout it out loud " Bring on the rains."

What looks best with skinny jeans?

The same question haunted me when i bought my pair of skinny jeans a month back. When i went home and tried to match my tees, tops and kurtas with the jeans, hardly ten of them looked fine. I felt it was time i changed my wardrobe but still i had to go on with my old clothes for few more days. I sat down and mentally shortlisted the kind of tops, shoes, bags and accessories for my pair of skinny. So, here goes it;

1. Ganjees, ganjees and more ganjees would look fab. If it's a long one, then simply tuck it in neatly and wear a belt either of the same colour as your ganjee or a colour contrasting to that. Like a brown ganjee could be worn with a yellow, orange, green, pink, red and even a blue belt. It has to be a sling bag for this kind of an attire, with a lot of beaded jewelery. Beads for your arms and your neck.

2. Shirts whether; cap sleeved, full sleeved, three quarter sleeved or sleeveless would give a formal and classy look if tucked in and graced with a belt. The colour of the belt obviously will depend on the occasion, say if it's a formal meeting then avoid too much contrast but do wear contrast if it's a casual event. Peep toes or Pump shoes can be worn to look elevated or wear ballet shoes to walk more comfortably. But please try and match the colour of your shoes with your belt. A medium sized bag will go well with your attire; you can match the colour of the bag with your belt and shoes, or you can go with an earthy shade.

3. Nowadays skinny jeans is a hot property at all the parties. If you are gonna be lounging or dancing then get hold of your regular spaghetti tops, halter necks, one shoulders, off shoulders, tube or some other extraordinary designer party wear tops. Combine a sleek thin shimmery sequinned belt, a pair of comfortable shoes like a pair of wedge heels or a sequinned pair of flat chappals and match a clutch bag with it.

And if you just stepping out for dinner then match a kaftan top, a mutton sleeved top or a plain tee with your jeans. Pep up your simple tee by wearing danglers, a pretty neckpiece, your watch and a bracelet. Carry a purse of the same colour of your top and put on a similar coloured belt as well. Either a pair of heels or a pair of fancy flat chappals will look nice on your feet.

4. For a day out at the beach, just fold your skinny jeans till the knees and you are all ready to go and hang out with the waves. Any plain tee would do except white or light coloured ones. Flip Flops, crocs or slip ons for your feet and for your shoulders a sling bag or a rucksack would do.

A kurta, a tunic top wouldn't look great with skinny jeans. Probably wearing a chunky belt over your short kurta will make it an acceptable apparel for skinny jeans.

Don't limit your creativity to this blog, go out and experiment with your clothes and trust me dressing up will be fun. Be innovative and add that difference to your wardrobe.