New Fashion Trend: Belt Over Cardigans and Jackets

This might not be a really new fashion trend, but I have been seeing it only very recently, so to me it's new!

To be following this new trend, you generally get a skinny belt (or a wide one - but I've usually seen it with the skinny belt) and wear it over your cardigan or jacket. Oh, and the most important thing that you must not forget: do not button your cardi/jacket, because that is the whole purpose, the belt is supposed to do that!

To honest, when I saw some girls wearing it, I thought WTF!!! It looks ewwwww and disgusting and yuckky and pffttttttttt... Sorry if you are a fan, but the ones I saw (real girls in real life) looked appauling. They looked like fashion victims rather than trendy. However, when I Googled this trend, I saw some nice examples too. So instead of chucking on any old cardi or jacket and wrapping any old belt around your waist does not make you trendy. You must look at yourself in the mirror before you leave the house.

Let me get one thing straight; I don't like writing negative things, and I don't really want to put negative things on this blog, but it really upsets me that people try to follow fashion trends just because that's the new trend. Wear it if it looks good on you ladies!!!

After seeing some of the following photos, I slightly changed my idea about this look... but again, it doesn't look good on everybody, and if you are going to do it, do it properly...

I really like Michelle Obama's style (most of the time!), and I really like the way she worked this trend... The longer jacket sure looks good to me! I really really like it!

Scarlet Johanson's take on this trend... Not too bad, but then again, this woman looks gorgeous in anything!

Vintage.. I can't say it's my cup of tea, but doesn't look too awkward...

I didn't really like this one, what do you think?

I really really dislike this one... There is too much of a gap! Sorry Michelle...

Hmm... again, not my cup of tea... I can't say I'm too fond... I think the jacket is rather too bulky for this style, and I really don't like the colour of the belt with this outfit?..

This one, I think is probably one of the best I've seen so far... It looks pretty chic, don't you think? And I absolutely love the colour combo! Hawt hawt hawt I say!



Now this one... LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! This is the look I love!!! Can you tell? :)) Definitely the only way I would wear a belt with a cardi! The way it's meant to be... Or is it?.. Well, to me it is anyway... :)

I think that a pair of jeans or a PLAIN gypsy skirt would look gorgeous under this (the last outfit). And if you are wearing these particular colours in a similar outfit combo, I think a choc brown scarf or even a slightly latte one will look good (plain of course).. You can go with the blue for your scarf, but I think that a brown would add dimension to it, as there are too many blues already... Suit yourself! :)

Which one is your favourite, if any? Have you tried the belt over cardi/jacket style before? What do you think, is it hot or not? Do you have any photos of you in this style and you think you look good? Why don't you send it in?

xoxo