Raglan sleeve coat

The word "raglan" is somehow known, or at least heard, by almost everyone. At least, many will confidently say that "this is some kind of clothing." Meanwhile, a raglan, originating, as is often the case with a women's wardrobe, from a purely masculine, army wardrobe - this is a very convenient cut of the sleeve, which will help emphasize the elegance of your style and, if necessary, adjust the line of the shoulders.

A feature of the cut raglan sleeve is the absence of a shoulder seam, which once allowed military clothing to get less wet in the rain, and now:

• Provides additional freedom of hand when moving. This becomes especially relevant for women with a sufficiently large volume of hands in their upper part, which becomes a problem when buying clothes of their size, but with a narrow sleeve design.
• Creates smoothness and softness of the shoulder line, which emphasizes the femininity and sophistication of the silhouette.

The advantages of raglan are that such a sleeve styleAllows you to uniquely visually reduce or increase the size of the shoulder girdle. If your shoulders are much larger than your hips, a coat with such a sleeve design will help visually smooth out this dissonance. This will also be promoted by the choice of a shortened coat sleeve with a long turndown collar in an English style or a shawl collar.

Ladies with problematic breasts, in their opinion, will also be happy with such a cut, since the oblique lines of the seams from the neck to the armhole will wonderfully help the owners of too large and too small breasts - in both cases, they will be satisfied result. Paradoxically, a large breast Raglan visually reduce, and a small - increase. An even greater effect in this direction can be achieved if you choose a coat in which the sleeves are made of contrasting fabric.

Coat models with raglan sleeves can be conditionally divided into several groups.

By the appearance of the cut of the main part of the coat:

• straight cut;

• flared down;

• single breasted;

• double breasted;

• with a collar of various styles;

• without collar;

• with a hood.

By the appearance of the cut sleeves of the coat:

• narrowed down;
• flared down;
• flared sleeve with a smell;
• hinged with a fastener on several buttons in the upper part;

According to the material from which the coat is made:

• From fabric (for warm coats, drapes, cashmere are used; for light, tweed, lightweight cashmere, wool, leather, suede; for summer, cotton and jacquard fabrics, jeans, velveteen, velvet; for celebrations and special occasions, light, airy fabrics, lace).

• From fur (for example, a stylish coat-coat knitted from fur strips). Sometimes it’s enough just to decorate a raglan coat with fur along the edge of the sleeve and the collar so that elegance also becomes luxurious.

• Knitted (various types of yarn are used: from boucle to microfiber); with or without lining.

A raglan coat of any length - long, medium or short - will look great on you if it is correctly tailored, selected taking into account the peculiarities of the figure and is appropriate in the given conditions (season, event, weather, accessories).

A coat with raglan sleeves will suit you in any color that suits you personally, in accordance with your color type and taste. As for fashion trends, the trend of the 2016 season is the return of the so-called “active print”. A cell, large and small, black and white and color, two or more colors.

Raglan coat implies a very feminine presentation of the image, so the rest of the components should be soft and plastic. A-line dresses, straight-cut skirts or tapered down (pencil skirt, tulip skirt), trouser suits - all that adds elegance to the image, and therefore to the hostess. Shoes are also preferred not too fanciful. The raglan coat is self-sufficient in itself, so you should not overload the image.

Fashion designers never left their attention to a raglan coat; in almost every fashion show, a coat with such a sleeve design becomes a highlight of fashion collections:

• Luxurious, unusual-style leather double breasted coat with an English burgundy collar and black trim for an evening out by Walk of Shame.

• And his laconic double in a black lacquered version with a cutting shuttlecock on the bottom of the product.

• Cozy tweed gray trapeze coat with checkered two-tone trim from Chanel.

• A deliberately simple look of a loose dark beige coat with welt pockets and a long belt, complemented by deliberately sophisticated accessories, combined to create an unusually sophisticated look from Juan Carlos Obando.

• A cosmic design of a fancy quilted pink collarless maxi-style cocoon coat with a shortened and also voluminous raglan sleeve from Frahchesco Scognamiglio.

• An elegant dark green coat on the belt with interesting decorative details from Adam Selman.

• A restrained but very feminine version of a gray draped coat with accented raglan lines turning into a stand-up collar, a combination fastener, a tulip skirt, but without the characteristic rounding of the shelves along the hem, from Victoria Beckham.

• An ambiguous solution, and as a result, a grotesquely decorative look in an oversized cocoon coat with a curly neckline from Balenciaga.

• Lemaire's stylish gray oversized overcoat for women with a vibrant lifestyle.

• The same gray, and the same swift cropped raglan coat with droppers, emphasizing the decisive fragility of its owner, from Isabel Marant.

• The splendor of the pink-blue checked long coat with a sleeve of an infrequent 7/8 length from Stella Jean.