Maybe JCrew started it. Or maybe the grunge movement had pinned the look. But the mixing of prints is in. And most of the time it looks great almost in the same way the fade cut on one side of the head while the other stays longer looks great. Never thought it was something I would like but always surprised how much I do. I have always been a prints fan. The mixing of one with another is what is really bringing fun and style back into it. There seems to be a swagger in the look. A let me sway and sashay feel pins itself to the garments. A sort of perfect nonchalance.

The statement held its own really well all Spring and Summer with prints clashing softly against each other in both soft and strong colors. Strips were also thrown in the mix giving it all a fluidity. Dreamy summers in dreamy prints have given way to its own Fall interpretation. The prints are bolder but still warm and soft. Laura Ashley and Liberty Prints knew what they were doing. Prints like gingham are one of the 'Then. Now. Forever' of fashion. You can hardly ever go wrong. And we are lucky that for now they are ours for the picking. They are still here for Fall/Winter helping us create our very own secret garden of looks. Otherwise, being a prints lover, vintage shopping would have been my best option. Unfortunately we know how very few and far between those have become. Extinct may be the best way to describe that. But let me stay a bit longer in my pretty pretty prints world. I'll leave lack of vintage for a later post.