Chambray, New Ways To Wear This Wardrobe Hero

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You know that chambray shirt you've had for a few years? It's still looking good, dolls. It was a precursor to all the faded rinse jeans, denim shoes (that's right, denim sandals and heels are all the rage), chambray shorts and chambray blazers and jackets you see everywhere now. Americans love our denim and chambray, and these light rinses are having their hey day. It's a good day to be chambray (and faded denim, too).

New Ways To Wear Chambray

I just got a new chambray jacket. I wanted it. I hunted it down. And I scored. Similar here

Here is how to wear chambray in new ways.

New Ways To Wear Chambray

Chambray is by nature casual. Even more so than denim, and that's pretty casual. So a chambray blazer is the perfect yin yang and high low piece.

New Ways To Wear Chambray

...which is why I'm wearing my blazer over what some might call a graphic tee. I call it my western glam top. Splitting hairs, really. But the point is that I'm mixing a borrowed-from-the-office piece in a weekend fabric and using it to make my t-shirt seem less weird and more buttoned-up for a 40-something to be wearing.

New Ways To Wear Chambray

If you have a chambray shirt, wear it with your white jeans. You'll be fairly casz, so if you love the weight of chambray but want something a bit dressier, you can tuck in your shirt and add a blazer (tan, or navy for a tone on tone look).

New Ways To Wear Chambray

I've got these shorts (I SWEAR they are not as short as they look nor are my legs as absurdly skinny as they appear in this picture - it's the camera angle, mkay? However, I am that white. Someone needs to throw some tanner on me.) So my shorts. I love pairing long-sleeves with shorts. So I'm wearing my chambray jacket - you could wear your chambray shirt. It makes the shorts seem more appropriate for a non-camp counselor outing.

New Ways To Wear Chambray

Here's how to wear denim on denim: go with chambray on denim. Notice how very different the rinses are, and even the textures.

New Ways To Wear Chambray

A chambray jacket is dressier than a denim or chambray shirt. But you can dress up your chambray shirt by tucking it in and adding lots of jewelry. Add a lightweight sweater. But not a white denim jacket. That's too many species in the same stall.

New Ways To Wear Chambray

Chambray + seersucker = match made in sartorial spring heaven.

New Ways To Wear Chambray

Since I'm also really into this tone-on-tone dressing lately, I added bead bracelets in more blue tones. It let's everyone know you know what you're doing. You got this. It's sophisticated dressing without being highbrow.

Aren't you glad you held onto your chambray? If you're craving more, try that chambray blazer , and Style Vault Insiders, shop more chambray inside the April Style Vault, like fab new heels and shorts and tops, in the Style Notes section.

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Best,

Tina

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