Blouse Fashion Blog Posts

In this section you will find fashion blog posts about blouses. A blouse is a loose-fitting women's top, traditionally gathered at the waist or falling softly from the shoulders, and it remains the dressier half of the tops category — the piece worn when a t-shirt is too casual and a dress is too much. This page is the blog post index for the topic on Apparel Search: it collects the blouse posts from the fashion blog, and links the sales directory and fashion blogs directory at the top.

Blouse Fashion Blog Posts

About Blouses

Three posts sit in this index, each about a different kind of blouse story. Kate Bosworth Wearing Hand-Pleated Shoulder Oxford Blouse is a garment-detail post: the Nonoo blouse takes the men's Oxford shirt shape and adds a hand-pleated shoulder, and the post is about that construction as much as the celebrity. Eva Mendes Spring 2015 Collection covers an actress's retail collection, where blouses are the wearable core of a celebrity line. Floral Boho-Chic and More is the print post — soft floral blouses in the bohemian manner, a post this index shares with the bohemian collection.

Blouses divide by fabric and by detail. Silk and satin blouses dress up trousers and skirts; cotton and Oxford-cloth blouses borrow the shirt's structure; sheer and printed blouses carry the decoration. The details that date or distinguish a blouse are at the neck and shoulder — bows, pleats, gathering, embroidery — which is why a pleated shoulder can carry a whole blog post. Readers looking for the guides will find the women's blouses guide, the silk blouses guide, animal print blouses and the blouse definition and term pages in the topic block below.

Care divides the blouse wardrobe as much as style does. Silk blouses want cool water, gentle handling and shade to dry; cotton Oxford styles take ordinary washing and a warm iron; sheer synthetics sit between, washable but snagged by jewelry and rough hangers. Styling divides it too: a blouse tucked into tailoring reads as office wear, the same blouse loose over jeans reads as weekend wear, and the printed boho blouses in these posts are cut to be worn loose. That range — one garment type covering the office, the evening and the festival — is why blouses keep a permanent place in the tops category.