The Weekender: Wear Pastels for Easter!

by Colleen Clark (Subscribe to Colleen Clark's posts)
Posted Apr 2nd 2010 at 8:00AM

Pastels Spring 2010 runway Burberry Prorsum Chanel Haute Couture BCBG Max Azria

Pastels on the Spring 2010 runway: Burberry Prorsum (left), Chanel Haute Couture (center) and BCBG Max Azria (right). Photos: Getty Images | AFP/Getty Images| Getty Images for BCBG Max Azria

Easter may mean dying eggs and going to church with your family. Or just a great excuse to gorge on marshmallow Peeps. Whatever your religious persuasion, this spring holiday presents the perfect opportunity to try out one of the season's biggest color trends: pastels. The spring runways replaced in-your-face neon and graphic colorblocking with subtle neutrals and Easter egg shades of ice blue, pale pink and lavender .

For this week's installment of The Weekender, we've put together an Easter brunch look, channeling spring's softer hues and topped it off with a grown-up take on an Easter basket. (One is never too old for a little bunny business.)

Style tips:

If you're worried about skewing too girly, opt for pastel pieces in menswear-inspired or body-skimming shapes. In this case we offset the light ruffles of this pale mandarin BCBG blouse with a boxier pearl gray TopShop vest (a go-to wardrobe piece for this season) and a curve-hugging James Perse skirt.
Another way to pull off softer hues is to pair them with pops of more intense color. Charlotte Ronson added a rocker edge to her pastel pieces with black accents and BCBG did the same with small hints of neon.

See what other fashionable trends are grabbing our attention this season.

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Filed under: Fashion, Best of the Season, How to Wear
Tags: bcbg, brunch, charlotte ronson, CharlotteRonson, easter, menswear, pastel, ruffles, Spring 2010, Spring2010, the weekender, TheWeekender

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janet, 4-03-2010, 9:29AM

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Rita, 4-03-2010, 9:58AM

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IowaCzech, 4-03-2010, 10:52AM

Those models look hungry.

No wonder they have scowls on their faces......

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Dale, 4-03-2010, 11:16AM

Doesn't anyone see the obvious in the style of the pale green dress on the left? It looks like she has stolen the Shroud of Turin. I cannot imagine wearing this dress to church on Easter Sunday, or anywhere else for that matter. Come on, it is the most beautiful season of the year and it is Eastern weekend folks - there is a reason it is called "Easter finery." Where are the lovely floral prints and flattering organza dresses we expect to see in the Easter parades? And I guess Easter bonnets have all been sent to some trash dump in the sky????
Model in the center looks she is about to explode into a zillion pink puffs and the one on the right looks like she is auditioning for a role on "Star Trek", yikes.
Nothing fine in these outfits, sorry.

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Val, 4-03-2010, 11:37AM

Who in their right mind would actually wear such hideous dresses. Its amazing how the media can lead simpletons to do the most ridiculous things.

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Robert, 4-03-2010, 11:51AM

The one “wrapped” in the green dress looks like she rose from the dead!

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Darlene, 4-03-2010, 12:46PM

They look like something Michele might wear if she lost some weight. I just read that when Obama goes to the mideast to see his Muslim people that Michele is not allowed since by Muslim law, women are not allowed when it comes to politics or just about anything else.

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MsfannoCr, 4-03-2010, 1:19PM

Just last night I commented that I so miss the ritual of the annual Easter dress ritual. The time of year when you could always count on finding something PRETTY to wear. These three examples are ghastly examples of what is in the stores.

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Lori, 4-03-2010, 2:06PM

What Gawdawful rags these models are wearing. No one with two brain cells to rub together would be caught in these "design" pieces of trash. Sorry.....these are NOT attractive. Might be suitable for a dogfight or a street rumble (if that's your thing), but nothing else.

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Effinie, 4-03-2010, 3:21PM

They could at least try to look like they like what they're wearing. That's the tip-off: they know these rags are ghastly, but the money was too good to pass up!

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Jennifer, 4-03-2010, 3:23PM

I don't think God will let you into church wearing these dresses.

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Bella, 4-03-2010, 4:41PM

Yeah sure, I can see myself sashaying up to the buffet at Lina's wearing one of those - NOT!!!!

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