MILITARY TREND- ON HIGH ALERT

The recent fall 17 runway shows did not revel a lot of fun, in-your-face trends. Cast aside were the peacocks, the slinky sexuality and over embellishment of prior years and hailed was simplicity. Norm-core, Nerd-core and "Dad-Bad" looks, are the new cool, while Business Casual is back in style. The outfits shown were wearable for most customers and very sellable for most stores.

The only fun trend that I saw interwoven in a few presentations was CAMOUFLAGE. Fashionistas may have taken their cue from the military hot spots around that world, that could erupt at any minute.

BALMAIN went to town with this trend and many of the pieces, worn separately, are totally wearable for the guy in the street.

MOSCHINO, stuck with the military mate look to dress his urban, gender neutral, vigilantes.

No camo, but the use of military green created very easy street looks at Dsquared2, Lanvin and The Kouples.

At Dorfman Pacific's DPC GLOBAL TRENDS, TROPICAL TRENDS and MOSSY OAK labels, we have a great selection of camo hats to merchandise with these looks.

BC197-ASST-BLUE

MOSSY OAK BREAK-UP MO18

DPC GLOBAL BH152-ASST-OLIVE

BH200-ASST

MILITARY MATE - ON TREND FALL 2017

As we all know the “modern sailor” look as been very big for the past 2 years and for fall 17 we see it blend into Military Mate trend for ladies. We are also seeing it in menswear but more on that in a later blog posting.

This is really an ongoing trend at Scala and it is important to think gender neutral as you will find many of these styles in the men's catalogs.

 I would definitely be showing our Aegean caps to complement this trend.

AEGEAN AEG100-BLK

Other classic Scala caps that would work in shape and color (olive, camel, charcoal) are BOILED WOOLS; 

BOILED WOOL CADET LW266-asst-olive

PEAKED BERET LW242-ASST-CAMEL

MILITARY INSPIRED CAP LW614-ASST-OLIVE

MILITARY CHAINED CAP LW663-asst-charcoal

LW497-OLIVE

Greens in all shades are trending as accent colors, so also show classic best sellers LW399-OLIVE and WALNUT, LW497-OLIVE.

ANNUAL BEST SELLER BOILED WOOL LW399-WALNUT

YELLOW - IN VOGUE

If a season was described by a color, than SPRINGTIME would definitely be yellow. The delicate yellow daffodils shyly poking their yellow heads out of the hard winter soil and the forsythia exploding in joyous yellow, ever before it even sends a delicate green leaf out.
Even President Trump's silken yellow mane seems to say "joy to the world".

Greenery may be the Pantone color of the year but YELLOW is just so mellow!

British vogue Jan 2017 by Julia Hobbs

At Dorfman Pacific we are, as always on trend, offering a range of shading from banana to yellow and pumpkin.Yellow hats are not the easiest color to wear, so we have used it sparingly in our assortments. Under our SCALA and TROPICAL TREND labels you will find.

LC61-fash-yellow

V16-ASST-YELLOW. NO HEADACHE VISOR

CLASSIC LC399-BANANA

LC761-ASST-BANANA

CLASSIC BEACH DRIFTER LS110-ASST-YELLOW

 In our Brooklyn hat company division, look for subtle yellow on many of the trims.

BKN1519-Nat

So mellow out in a great hat, summer is just around the corner.

CHAPEAX DE PARIS - C'EST TENDANCE

Unlike Tokyo's plain and simple hats, Paris had a hat for all heads this winter.

At ESPACE KILLIWATCH, one of my favorite "trend" stores in Paris, the look was in keeping with Tokyo's plain and simple look. Killywatch is an amazing store with a melange of vintage, second hand and new items layered in, #recycled and #upcycled, all of which are beautifully curated and merchandised.

STETSON hats were featured front and center, with a nice collection of blocked wool felt and well as  classic wool ivy like STW236 which is available in the US from Dorfman Pacific.
N. B.  8/4 caps were much more on display over ivy caps.

The main window featured an off white trail hat, which we had seen in abundance in Tokyo last month.

The trail hat was by far the most highlighted silhouette in the store, many had the brixton label.

We have this silhouette covered in Callanan and other dorfman pacific brands for fall 2017.

callanan trail hat LV390-ASST

The most exciting hat I saw was a "BLAST FROM THE PAST". Dorfman Pacific's classic melton beanie style 167M-BLK. Here it had been given a fresh makeover with an adjustable "baseball cap open back". It was offered in a selection of tweeds that looked great and in addition colors for the ladies. Sometimes, something is so out of fashion that it is back in fashion. This hat was 125 euro!
Maybe its time to bring the stevedore cap back!

STEVEDORE CAPS

Next stop was the new NATURE ET DECOUVERTE store in the Marais. It's a gorgeous 2 level store with a glassed in courtyard.

Nature et Découverte always featured a hat tree of safari hats as a center piece of their outdoor look. Again STETSON was the hat of choice here.

STETSON weathered cotton, leather and cloth hats are available from Dorfman Pacific US.
Interestingly the dorfman pacific version of the tritone leather trim is on close out for $19.99, while supplies last. STYLE DF160-ASST.

BHV's HOMME store, always has great accessories and a nice courtyard to grab a coffee.

On this visit, the hat department had shrunk and had lost it center stage location. Nevertheless, it was still well curated. STETSON and Flèche were the predominant hats here.

BHV hat department display

Nice selection of quality wool felt hats with striped ribbon, contrast bows and classic leather lacing.

Nice contrast stitching detailing which is available in Callanan, gender neutral style LV318-asst.

flèche weather cotton ivy

I really liked the quilted cotton lining. It felt good on. I also liked the fun lining color. weather cotton can be so drab to merchandise.

I liked the twill under brim on this STETSON leather cap. Similar to style STW510 from stetson by Dorfman Pacific.

I have to admit that there was minimum correlation between what the stores were showing and what was being worn on the streets. It was absolutely freezing in Paris over new years weekend. The hat of choice for all sexes was the beanie, or as the french would say le bonnet. Having been forced to stand in an outdoor security at Gare du Nord for 2 hours, I was able to focus in on head wear more closely.

For men the top selling beanie brand was CARHARTT with thinsulate and the best selling color by far was LIGHT GREY. Maybe Dorfman Pacific needs to readjust their color packs!

For ladies it was a knit beanie with a real or faux pompon. We are on trend with this for fall 2017.

You say pompom and I say pompon. same/same. Pompon came from France to England in the 19th century and was misheard as pompom. Today they are equally used in English.
We have pompons and pompoms in scala ladies!!

SCALA ON TREND WITH POMPONS

LK183-ASST

LE FIN