The Ruffle And Frill Trend For Spring 2025

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Ruffles and Frills: The Feminine Trend Taking Over Spring 2025

If you’re ready to embrace a touch of romance and femininity in your wardrobe this season, look no further than Spring 2025’s most charming trend: Ruffles and Frills. From puffed shoulders to ruched waists and flouncy sleeves, this playful yet polished look is making waves across runways and boutiques—and it’s absolutely wearable at any age.

Why We Love This Trend

Ruffles and frills instantly elevate your outfit with texture, softness, and movement. Whether subtly placed or boldly featured, these details add a stylish flair that flatters and enhances your shape. This trend pairs especially well with spring’s lighter fabrics and softer color palettes.

Key Details to Watch For

Puffed Shoulders and Sleeves: A nod to vintage silhouettes, puffed sleeves create shape and draw the eye upward.
Ruched Waists: This detail offers a flattering, slimming effect that enhances natural curves.
Flounce Sleeves: Feminine and breezy, they bring a graceful feel to any look.
Ruffle Details: Whether along the neckline, hemline, or sleeves, ruffles give a fresh, youthful vibe.

Style It Your Way – At Any Age

Don’t be afraid to experiment with this trend. For a youthful yet age-appropriate approach:

Pair flouncy tops with structured pants or denim for balance.
Layer a ruffled blouse under a tailored blazer for the office.
Style puff-sleeve tops with high-rise jeans for an effortlessly chic weekend look.
Keep accessories minimal to let the fabric details shine.

Shop The Look

Here are a few of our current boutique favorites that capture the essence of the Ruffles & Frills trend:

Tribal Sportswear Ruffle Sleeve Top: Easy to dress up or down, this one is a great wardrobe staple.
Democracy Soutache Neck Top: With ruched waist and pleated shoulders, this ultra-soft top is all about feminine charm.
Democracy Keyhole Top: Features a soft ruffle at the neckline and delicate sleeve detail.
Democracy Crochet Top: The puffed sleeve and A-line silhouette are sweet and sophisticated.
Staccato Keyhole Tie Neck Top: Offers a lightweight and flowy feel with subtle ruffle detail.
Wishlist Lace Trim Blouse: Romantic and soft with the perfect dose of frill.
Wishlist Satin Blouse in Rose and Champagne: Adds a hint of shine and a touch of ruffle elegance.

See all of these tops in our Kyleen’s Picks Collection!

Trend Talk: Putting the Trends Together

We featured the Ruffles and Frills trend in our most recent Wednesday Wardrobing Live episode as part of our April series, Putting The Trends Together. Every Wednesday at 6 p.m. MST, we go live on Facebook and Instagram to explore one hot trend of the season and show you how to wear it.

Did you miss this week’s episode? No worries! Catch the replay on our YouTube Channel and get all the style tips, fit advice, and outfit inspiration you need. Don’t forget to subscribe!

What’s Next?

Join us today, Wednesday, April 16, at 6 p.m. MST as we cover the ever-popular Boho Chic trend! Think breezy fabrics, earthy tones, and relaxed silhouettes perfect for spring. Watch live on our Facebook and Instagram channels, and while you are there, don’t forget to follow us! Don’t forget to tune in and bring your fashion questions—we love to chat live!

#RufflesAndFrills #SpringTrends2025 #WednesdayWardrobing #PuttingTheTrendsTogether #FashionCrossroads #ShopSmall #BohoChic #BoutiqueStyle #StyleTipsForWomen

23Mar2015

It’s Foxcroft Week!

Posted in beauty, clothing, dressing for work and dressing for an interview, personal style, quality, spring 2015 fashion trends, tips and tricks by kyleen228

This week we are highlighting one of our fabulous lines at Fashion Crossroads called Foxcroft. Now through Friday, come in and try on one of these fabulous wrinkle free cotton blouses and you can register to win a FREE Foxcroft Blouse of your choice from our store! The winner will be chosen at closing on Friday, March 27th and notified on Saturday, March 28th.

Olive stripped Foxfroft wrinkle free cotton blouse at Fashion Crossroads

I have to tell you, I am very impressed by these blouses. I have to admit, I was a bit dubious about wrinkle free cotton. So, I determined to purchase one myself and put it to the test! I thought a perfect trial for such a claim would be a trip, so I packed my new Foxcroft blouse at the bottom of my suitcase (under the rest of my clothes and shoes) and waited to see how it looked when I arrived at market in Las Vegas. To my surprise, the blouse came out of my suitcase without any wrinkles!

My next test was to wear it on hell day…Monday at the Women’s Wear and Nevada Show where we work from 9 a.m .to 8 p.m. This very long day is spent in a tight schedule where we have a new vendor to see every hour. I walk a lot going from vendor to vendor and I sit a lot while I’m placing my orders. What better test for a blouse than constant up and down? I wore it out over my cropped jeans, and it did not crease at the waist, despite the hours I spent sitting and writing orders. Okay, so now I was becoming VERY impressed. I even wore it a second day while I was at market because it looked so fresh and crisp!

White cotton Foxcroft blouse that I wore at market and available on our online store.

The final test was to again pack it beneath my clothing in my suitcase on the way home. By this time, I was not surprised when I took it out of my suitcase, unwrinkled.

This is a fabulous blouse and worth every penny I spent on it! A great cotton blouse is a wonderful investment because it goes with anything and looks great under sweaters, jackets or by itself. Best yet, it will never go out of style so it is a worthwhile investment. I have loved my Foxcroft blouse and I couldn’t recommend this line of blouses any more. You can purchase the same blouse I described above on our online store at

http://Fashion-Crossroads-Inc.shoptiques.com. Just look for the Foxcroft blouse. If you live here in Casper, then this is the week to come in and give this line a try! Who knows, maybe you could be the lucky winner of new Foxcroft blouse!

9Mar2015

Four Key Trends For Spring

Posted in beauty, clothing, dressing your figure, Fashion, personal style, spring 2015 fashion trends by kyleen228

Heavy zipper details are a trend to look for this season

As the spring merchandise keeps flowing in, I am getting more and more excited for warmer weather. It is so refreshing to change your closet over from dark, heavy winter fabrics to light, airy, summer styles. But even more exciting than the color and fabric change are the the new trends for the season. I wanted to highlight a few trends you’ll be seeing quite a bit this season and encourage you to try at least one!

We’ve seen zip sweaters play a big role this winter season. The heavy gage zipper as embellishment trend continues into summer with zip necked tops like this one on the left from Lior. Pair this style with a printed legging in a coordinating color and some cute sandals, and you’ll have a trendy look for your summer barbecue! We also have this top in royal blue, and I love it with printed black and white leggings. The two together are edgy and oh so cute! Of course this style also works well with skinny jeans or boyfriend jeans (rolled at the ankle).

The next trend worth highlighting is kimonos. Wear these boxy styled jackets like you would a cardigan with a loose

Kimonos are going to be a fun new spring trend you will want to try

fitting top underneath or a tank. At market, the trendier girls wore their kimonos with shorts but you can dial down the style a bit by pairing them with skinny ankle pants as well. I love this one from Ryu pictured on the right. The soft blue is very denim friendly and the crochet and fringe embellishment make it hip. We’ve layered this one with a lace tank in ivory and finished off the look with a tassel necklace. So cute! This is a great option for denim capris, skinny jeans or boyfriend jeans. These also work well over skirts and dresses too.

Speaking of crochet, it is everywhere this season! You’ll be seeing it as

Crochet is queen this season! And why not, it’s hip and feminine.

an embellishment, but the far more trendy way to wear it is as a crochet top. Look at the example on the left. This is such a light, airy style that works great to hide a thick middle and looks amazing worn as head to toe neutral, paired either as a cream and white or cream and tan combo. (Cream crochet with white pants, for example). While this style definitely hearkens back to the 70’s, it’s more feminine than hippie this season.

The last style worth highlighting is the modified high low. This one from Tribal

Boyfriend style high low looks great with loose silk pants for a casual and chic look.

is a marriage of the boyfriend tee (oversized) and high low tee (shorter front than back). This loose fitting, airy style works well paired with slouchy silk or linen pants. It also looks amazing with jeans. Notice again the strong neutral trend with a white front and heather grey back. Style tip: this top is okay to wear with jeggings but not with leggings. Why? Leggings cling too much in the front so you want to make sure you cover them with a longer top. Because jeggings use a thicker fabric, they don’t cling and can therefore handle a shorter top that doesn’t cover your crotch area. Keep it classy ladies!

I hope this blog inspires you to try one of these new styles this spring. Embrace a new trend this season. It will give your whole wardrobe a lift!

24Feb2015

Onward and Upward Toward New Adventures Online

Posted in business, expansion, spring 2015 fashion trends by kyleen228

Corky’s Elite Ocean sandal

Market week is finished, and we came home to begin our next big project – an online store. Saturday and Sunday were both dedicated to hand selecting our 25 inventory items that will constitute our online presence when we open up sometime in the next two weeks.

The important thing about going online is trying to preserve the character that makes you successful as a brick and mortar. For us, the combination of our inventory mix, our mission to serve the working woman, and our ability to draw from all the lines we have to make truly unique outfits has been our recipe for success. Thus, we really tried to focus on our best lines for today’s busy women – the one’s that can take us from work to evening to weekend.

As we were creating our online inventory, some lines were obvious: Sympli, Tribal, Foxcroft, Clara Sun Woo, and Aventura. But we are also known for carrying lines that aren’t typical like Corky’s (the shoe to the right and below). We love Corky’s shoes because they are unique and not something usually found outside of a boutique. After all, isn’t that why we shop boutiques? We want a selection of great brands to choose from but also things we cannot find at our local mall. Just look at these beautiful shoes!

Corky’s Elite Bay

Today I took our rather large box of clothes and shipped them to New York to be professionally photographed. I sent style notes along with the ways we envisioned the outfits appearing on the models. As I was writing the descriptions, I tried to add that brick and mortar touch of making suggestions how the customer can combine items from several brands to create unique looks and to extend their wardrobe. I hope that our personality as a store comes through. This is an adventure and a learning process. I’m sure we will make some mis-steps, but you don’t stay in the women’s retail clothing industry for forty years without having figured out a thing or two. I’m sure we will figure this out as well.

19Feb2015

Posting From Market- WWD Magic Day 2

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So I have to tell you, today was rough. My dear, sweet mom left her purse on a bench just outside the market entrance. When we finally realized it, we discovered that some honest buyer had turned in the purse to a market worker who turned it into a security officer who turned it into the security office. The problem was that somewhere between the market worker (who is convinced the phone was still in my mom’s bag when she gave it to the security officer) and the security office, her iPhone 6 and $200 cash went missing. Total bummer! It is really frustrating when you are pretty sure the guy who is supposed to be protecting you is the one who took your property. Worse is when the security office shows no interest in investigating the theft. You could almost hear them thinking….”dumb lady, shouldn’t have left your purse, tsk, tsk, tsk. Not our problem (even though it was likely one of our guys who did it).”

Tea and Rose is a cute young contemporary line we carry at Fashion Crossroads.

Anyway…despite the iPhone fiasco, we did manage to get some buying in today. We started out the day at Lysee leggings where we purchased new colors for our spring leggings including

Me and the Creative Director from Yellowbox shoes as well as our fabulous shoe collections for spring and fall

heathered brown and grey as well as a cute denim cropped legging. We also found several amazing embellished black leggings. I am most excited about the champagne joggers that we bought because these have a silky fabric and Lysee’s fabulous shaper underneath. By the way, a jogger is a loose fitting, silk pant with an elastic cuff at the ankle. They are a key trend.

Me and the owner or Anushka handbags. Anushka has some beautiful new purse designs that we will be seeing in Fashion Crossroads this spring.for the season.

Next we visited Ginger G, one of my favorite young contemporary lines we carry at FC Outlet. As usual, we found lots of really cute tops, dresses and skirts there. And as has been the case with every young contemporary line we visited in the last two days, the booth was packed.

Then, we headed to Lush to purchase some more young contemporary items for the Outlet as well as picked up a new line that is very cute and similar to Pretty Angel but younger. This line has a vintage feel and focuses on layering slip dresses under lacey tanks and tops. Sooo cute!

You may notice that none of the pictures in today’s blog are from the booths that we visited today. I’ll share some more pictures from today in tomorrow’s blog post because for some unknown reason, I cannot get my photo stream to update on my ipad. Today is just not a good Apple day. I think I’ll put all my devices away for the night and hope everythings goes better tomorrow!

Here’s to a new day….

18Feb2015

Posting From Market – WWD Magic

Posted in Fashion, Jewelry, personal style, spring 2015 fashion trends, trends by kyleen228

Today we headed to Magic at the Sands Convention Center. This is always the highlight of my week at market because Magic sees more young contemporary and junior buyers than the others we usually visit. One of my top priorities while I’m there is to pay close attention to the fashion trends I see representated by all the buyers milling about. I have learned over the years that if I see a trend worn by a large marjority of the buyers, it will make it to Casper, Wyoming. Not every trend works its way from the coast, either the West or East, into mid America and especially into the casual, lifestyle wear driven Rocky Mountains.

I saw many, many buyers wearing the shoe boot, cropped and rolled skinny jean combo, both male and female. I saw quite a few plaid shirts, long vests, kimonos, skinny jeans and tall boots, short jumpers, gladiator inspired shoes, and lots of beat up jeans.

Check out the floral bomber, gladiator heels, colored skinny jeans and boots.

This on trend market attendee is showing off his rolled skinny jeans and lace up boots with a blazer and hoodie.

These shots are candid, catching buyers doing their thing…buying and checking their phones!

I also noticed a large amount of grey- heather, dove and charcoal- from nearly every

Display highlighting the importance of grey in spring 2015 fashion

vendor we visited but especially the young contemporary and junior vendors. Between the grey trend and the still very popular cream and white vintage lace and bohemian trend, it was a struggle to find things in color. But, have no fear, while we will definitely have a preponderance of greys and neutrals in our young contemporary department this spring, you wil also find soft florals and pastels to break it up. It is also worth mentioning that despite the fact that the key color for 2015 is marsala, it seems it is used mostly as an accent color for spring.

Today we bought from Elan, Blu Pepper, Tea and Rose, Vocal, and Anushka. We picked up NikiBiki and Jamierocks as two new lines for the store. NikiBiki was recommended by a customer is similar to Tees By Tina but less expensive and in plus sizes. They also have exceptionally cute active wear which you will be seeing in the store as well. Jamierocks is a great new jewelry line that offers daintier, multi-layered jewelry at great prices. Tomorrow we will see Ginger G and Lush for FC Outlet and a few other new young contemporary lines that we saw today. Tune in tomorrow for more info!

17Feb2015

Posting From Market- Women’s Wear in Nevada (WINN) Show

Posted in clothing, Fashion, spring 2015 fashion trends, trends by kyleen228

Today we shopped the WINN Show, short for Women’s Wear in Nevada, at the Rio Convention Center. The WINN show is focused on speciality stores and has many of our best lines. Today we saw Foxcroft, Tribal, Multiples, Alisha D, Belldini, Weavz, Keren Hart, and Lior. It was a very full day, beginning at 9 a.m. and ending at 8:15 p.m. We stopped for an hour lunch but otherwise were working lines the rest of the time.

Foxcroft had beautiful tencel blouses as well as their fabulous wrinkle free cotton blouses. I wore my Foxcroft blouse yesterday. It came out of my suit case wrinkle free and was still crisp and beautiful when I hung it back in the closet at the end of the day. Ladies, if you want a great blouse, there is none better in the market! The picture on the left shows an upcoming “blouse tunic” or “big shirt” from Foxcroft. This is the next big tunic style. It looks great with leggins, skinny or straight jeans. You will also be seeing Blouse Tunics this summer so be sure to add at least one style to your summer wardrobe.

Early fall grouping from Foxcroft with blouses and sweaters.

Sales Representative for Fox Croft modelling a blouse tunic that will be in Fashion Crossroads in September.

We also saw Tribal today. We were so excited about the fall line. It looks amazing. Tribal hit a home run in balancing casual jean looks with dressy work looks for a very functional line with a ton of fashion and practical pieces. The challenge will be deciding what not to buy! You Tribal lovers will be so happy with what you see from the line both for spring and fall of 2015. It is also worth pointing out that the company expanded their booth and were booked solid all day, with every seat filled with buyers. That’s a good sign both for the line and for the market as a whole.

Tribal booth at the WINN Show in Las Vegas

Based upon the number of buyers at both the Off Price Show and the Winn Show, I thnk it is fair to say that buyers are feeling good about the economy which means customers are shopping all across the country. That’s good news for all of us!

16Feb2015

Posting From Market – Off Price

Posted in clothing, handbags, Jewelry, spring 2015 fashion trends by kyleen228

Our first day of our week long market adventure began today at 8 a.m. and the Off Price Show at the Venetian Convention Center. The Off Price show is dedicated to offering over cut, over stock, and close out merchandise at below wholesale. The show is busy, especially on Sunday because many buyers come in one day early to hit this show before the other major shows open on Monday. Buyers arrive and go through registration, get their badge and then pass through security to gain entrance to the show.

Once through the doors, the show consists of booth after booth, with no particular organizational method, in a very large convention center. It can be completely overwhelming to a new buyer. Fortunately, after 16 years, we have a handful of vendors we want to see and so we start by visiting each of these and crossing them off our list.

Our first stop was Pretty Angel. This booth gets crazy busy as the day progresses and it becomes, well….a bit mobish. Buyers are all vying for a limited number of samples and sales people and they can get downright ugly. We like to avoid this bro ha ha so we get there early BEFORE the craziness begins.

One of the things that becomes obvious quickly is what trends will be key for the season. You can spot them because you see them over and over again at booth after booth. This season it is printed leggings and palazzo pants. We stopped at Superline and ordered several great styles for FC Outlet and at Sharon Max for Fashion Crossroads.

After a busy day of buying, we usually end the day with accessories. Today we saw Sunflower and a couple of great purse lines. It is so exciting to buy things for you and look forward to seeing you get excited about what we chose.

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