Bags with applique and prints are the current trend of each season. Large or small, with handles or a long belt - such accessories are in great demand among modern fashionistas and have a number of features.
Features, pros and cons
Patterns of bags with prints and appliques are included in every collection of any brand. They make up special lines and have different colors. Almost always, such a decor makes unique even the simplest bag: its appearance becomes spectacular and unique. The background, decorated with a bright accent, looks completely different. With the addition of contrasting design elements, it becomes more expressive, which is reflected in the style of the bag.
The pluses of applications and prints are exclusivity. They minimize the encounter of two identical bags in the same city.
Applications and prints are made of textiles and leather. Its texture can be different: smooth, embossed, relief depicting the skin of a snake or crocodile. The combination of different textures allows you to create real masterpieces of design art.
Accessories with drawings are the decoration of the set. However, they require careful selection of clothes, because if you ignore the appropriateness of the accessory, you can violate the created style and harm your image. Such bags in most cases involve a combination with plain clothes and the interplay of shades of the accessory and the chosen things.
Such additions are appropriate in the romantic image of a young nature, creative or glamorous fashionista, relevant in the bow of a city dweller. However, not all of them can be called everyday: most models breathe a sense of celebration, which is not suitable in every case.
You should not supplement the fashionable set with a bright bag, going to work, and especially to those where a clear dress code is prescribed. If such a design is quite relevant for a walk around the city and gatherings in a cafe with friends, then it is completely inappropriate in the office and at an official meeting with business partners. In the best case, a bag with a print under the skin of reptiles will be appropriate here.
As for the evening look or going out, it all depends on the model: picky fashionistas can choose a shocking version that will look harmonious in such a look.
Types of applications and prints
Thanks to the boundless flight of imagination, the work of the masters knows no bounds. Ideas are sometimes so unusual that they require courage to go out with such an accessory.
Applications
Depending on the chosen topic, the design may be the most unusual and bright. Choosing a theme of a pattern for bag design, fashion designers use different tricks. It can be independent applications or compositions in patchwork technique.
Often in the decor, applications with the theme are used:
- individual colors, with a generous floral print;
- geometric ornament;
- world of animals and birds;
- Indian traditional ornaments;
- stylized images of people, animals, fish;
- autumn leaves, trees;
- Japanese sketches with a panda;
- fragments of a metropolis;
- glamorous chic;
- tea party;
- sketches on the theme of old London;
- African ornament;
- abstraction and geometry;
- berries and fruits.
Often applications become not only a decoration, but also the basis of a bag. For example, the general background is made in the form of large squares of a contrasting shape, and small details are sewn on top, forming the intended pattern. In textile versions, embroidery is often used in addition to patchwork technique.
In addition to the patchwork-style technique that allows you to create models that are unique in design, there are volume and multi-layer applications. In this case, they are made in the form of simple cut out fragments or bulk textile blanks that are sewn to the bag in several rows.
If desired, you can order the product in a single copy. Today, many professional craftswomen carry out such orders in a short time, creating unique accessories.
Prints
Prints allow no less freedom for design. They revive any, even the purest and deepest tone of an accessory.
Often, eminent couturiers choose the following motives in choosing the drawing of the material:
- flower arrangements;
- plant subjects;
- abstraction
- geometric patterns;
- city sketches;
- animal colors for animal skin and reptile skin;
- stylized images;
- night city;
- Glamor
- shopping and colored silhouettes of girls;
- birds, butterflies;
- fruit and berry theme;
- ethnic ornaments;
- drawings of iconic elements of brands (logos);
- imitation of knitted or embroidered fabric.
Today, prints are a way of self-expression, such bags allow you to always be in the spotlight, emphasizing the fashionable set. They are a kind of alternative to applications and are a frequent technique in the design of accessories of fashion houses with a worldwide reputation.
Additions in the design of bags with prints and appliqués
Often, models with prints and applications have additional decor. Usually, he is chosen carefully so as not to oversaturated the composition, although in some cases complete freedom of creativity is allowed. As additional elements that are appropriately combined with applications, beads, fur with a fine pile, small rhinestones, satin ribbons, fringe, pompons, and beads can be used.
Often, to draw the smallest details of the composition, they use the drawing of blanks using special paints. These are the midpoints of flowers, eyes, eyelashes, lips, stars, hair and other drawings.
In addition to the elements necessary for design, in the decor of models with print or applique, metal fittings are often used, which helps to extend the service life and practicality.These are a variety of metal zippers, rings, buckles, plates with magnets, chains, key rings, rivets, eyelets.
Models
The choice of models with print or applique is wide enough. This can be a bag of various shapes: rectangular, round, oval, in the form of a square, trapezoid, month or dome. Structural or soft, without a frame - it all depends on the idea of the fashion designer. Creative couturier ideas sometimes transform even ordinary and austere classics.
The most common varieties of models of such accessories include:
- a shopper (a capacious model of a rectangular or trapezoidal shape, which has a lot of space for shopping);
- a messenger (a messenger bag, a medium-sized product on a thin belt);
- a bag (a capacious bag of a round shape with short handles and an additional belt for socks over the shoulder);
- clutch (miniature model, sometimes with a long belt);
- minodyer (a kind of clutch, however, unlike a flat bag, it differs in volume and in a rigid structural form);
- bag-bag (a mix of a bag and a backpack, which is a model pulled on top with a lace);
- beach bag (volumetric option for a mass of useful things that are sure to come in handy on the beach);
- hobo (a bag in the shape of a month, characterized by a soft shape and some carelessness in the inside, but allowing organizing the internal space with the help of an organizer);
- a backpack (a small sports accessory that frees hands).
What to wear?
In order not to oversaturate the bow with an abundance of bright colors, you need to carefully approach the selection of details of the outfit.
A clutch with flowers is appropriate with a dress if the print pattern matches the colors of the shoes.
Beach bags fit perfectly with bows with sundresses, dresses in the same color, as well as plain jeans and T-shirts.
The minodeler on a long chain, having the color of the skin of a giraffe, harmoniously looks with black clothes, even if of a strict style
An important rule for composing a set is the absence of mixes of different prints: it looks tasteless and clumsy.
The applique model is good in grunge style, where a combination of the incompatible is allowed.
A roomy backpack will not be cumbersome if you pick up loose clothing for it (a knitted sweater and a skirt of light colors that have something in common with the bag's decor pattern).
A large model on a wide belt will not look like an embroidered carpet, if you smooth it with a T-shirt on wide straps and a long flared skirt.
A small, flat, soft-shaped handbag just made for the boho style. The main thing is a successful coincidence of the background of the bag and the shade of clothes. Plus, if the decoration of the bag matches the trim of the outfit or jewelry.
Accessories will help to bring harmony to any look with a bright bag: made in the same color, they will complete the ensemble in a stylish and unique way. Whatever style you choose, the main thing is to feel confident. The harmony of taste and state of mind depends on this.