Bohemian Fashion Blog Posts

In this section you will find blog posts about Bohemian fashion and style. In modern usage, the term Bohemian applies to people who live unconventional, usually artistic lives — the Bloomsbury Group around Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf is a famous example, and the original Bohemians were travellers and refugees from central Europe. In fashion the word names the boho-chic style: clothing that looks effortless and free-spirited precisely because the wearer does not appear to try too hard. This page is the blog post index for the topic on Apparel Search.

Bohemian Fashion Blog Posts

About Bohemian Style

Boho-chic had its defining moment in the early 2000s: associated first with supermodel Kate Moss, it became a highly popular style in 2004 and 2005 through actress Sienna Miller. In America similar looks were called bobo or ashcan chic, or luxe grunge, with Mary-Kate Olsen and Zooey Deschanel among the leading proponents. The uniform is consistent — flowing floral dresses, peasant tops, fringe, suede, layered beads and wide-brim hats — but the attitude is the real marker: mixed, personal and deliberately unstudied. The photograph in the Photos section below shows the style's standard pieces together.

The five posts collected here are the style in its second wave. Bohemian Fashion Vibes for 2015 is the trend summary. Festival Braids for Three Days is a hair post — festival dressing made bohemian style a whole look, hair included. Spring Break Fashion 2015 covers holiday boho dressing. Floral Boho-Chic and More, shared with the blouse index, is the print post, and Kourtney Kardashian in Tangerine NYC and Hilary Duff Looking Boho-Chic are the celebrity sightings, the second with a Kooba handbag as the boho accessory. Readers who want the guides will find maxi dresses, fringe, boho dresses and festival fashion pages in the topic block below.

The festival circuit is what kept the style alive between its 2005 peak and the 2015 posts in this index. Outdoor music festivals reward exactly what boho provides — loose layers, sun hats, fringe that moves, jewelry that stacks — and festival photographs recirculate the look every spring to a new audience. Spring break dressing, covered in one of the posts here, draws on the same wardrobe for the same reasons: warm weather, travel and clothes that pack without creasing into a suitcase.

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