Some fashion retailers are pushing the look of mixed patterns in different garments , but many don't work. The pieces may have colors in common, but one pattern is often too dressy for the other, too big for the other, or both patterns fight to be dominant. The result is confusion and chaos. There is a quiet trend toward pieced and patchwork fashions that combine many patterns in one garment. Fashion reporters won't likely talk about it.
Patchwork is too ordinary, too country, too low budget.
Trendy cow and camouflage blobs and botches don't work in real-life clothes and will appear quickly dated. Many jackets hang softer due to less interfacing and shoulder padding. Suits are not cookie-cutter in style but designed in a wider range of feminine to sportive detailing. Suits available this season accommodate a wider range of lifestyles, personality traits, and values. Body conscious jackets, nipped in at the waist, give a sexy spin to matched suits.