A nother hot and chic trend blazing the streets these days is the swing jacket. Also called the trapeze jacket, its fits snugly at the shoulders and broadens as it makes its way to your waist. Because of the way it gets wider at the waist, you may feel the need to pair it with skinny jeans mostly, to try and reclaim some of your shape. But be daring and try this style with shorts and minis as well. It makes for great layering as some are short, hitting right above the waist. This gives you a great opportunity to mix the hot gray colour with some of the jewel tones now in, or to even mix and match different jewel tones.

Swing jackets add that element of fun detailing to your outfit. It spruces up a work outfit and adds that element of party chic to what could have been an otherwise drab office jacket. It plays up cute shorts or adds that extra fab to your skinny-jeans-and-stiletto-with-your-status-bag-in-hand game. I featured a swing jacket here in my work basics post, so locals can be sure of one place to get them. Otherwise, some great swing jackets were found on Style Bakery , some of which are shown below. Click on more to view…

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