Trends come and go, but embroidery always remains in style. The delicate thread- and beadwork involved in embroidery makes every piece look expensive and unique — even if you bought it just like the rest of the pieces in your wardrobe. You can find all manner of embroidered pieces to fit your style, but if you are looking for the top fashion trends for the upcoming fall season, you might consider the following embroidery styles:
1. Embroidered Jewelry
Thanks in no small part to TikTok, craft jewelry is having a moment. Content creators on social media are showcasing the fascinating steps they take to create unique and stunning earrings, pendants, broaches and more from materials like clay, glass and small embroidery stitches. Embroidered jewelry tends to be lightweight yet incredibly detailed, with gorgeous stitching in a miniature scale.
Generally, embroidered jewelry takes advantage of the unconventional medium to attract the eye with bright colors and exciting patterns. You can find any theme or style in embroidered jewelry, from florals and botanicals to geometric shapes to tiny art scenes, so you should be able to find jewelry pieces that suit your fashion aesthetic.
2. Embroidered Shoes
Gone are the days when you want your footwear to look just like everyone else’s. As a means of differentiating your style from your head to your toes, you can invest in shoes that provide some personal flair with embroidery. Embroidered shoes often feature stitched designs on various locations of the fabric upper, such as the toe cap, the collar or the side panels. Because shoes provide a larger canvas than jewelry, you can find much larger and more interesting designs on embroidered footwear.
However, you should only invest in shoes that have been embroidered by a machine or an experienced embroiderer. Inexpert embroidery might leave too much thread inside the shoe, causing the footwear to be uncomfortable if not unwearable. Though it might be tempting to embroider your own kicks, you should always opt for professionally embroidered footwear.
3. Embroidered Jeans
All manner of embroidered textiles are in, from button-up cotton shirts to face masks for protecting against infection, but jeans are perhaps the most popular piece of clothing for embroidery. The styles of the late ‘90s and early ‘00s are back in a big way, which means flares, frays and features that help personalize a pair of pants are fashionable once again.
All manner of embroidery can set a pair of jeans apart from the rest. Embroidering jeans pockets might be easiest, but it is also the most common. You might instead look for embroidered jeans with details placed on the front, where they are more prominent and more likely to be appreciated by passers-by.
4. Sashiko
A style of stitching from Japan meant to help reinforce clothing, “sashiko” translates to English as “little stabs.” This embroidery style involves using a small running stitch in a hypnotically intricate pattern. In fact, the act of creating sashiko is so repetitive that it has been used in meditative practice to provide calm and focus.
Sashiko is equal parts functional and beautiful, which makes it an excellent embroidery style to apply to all manner of garments. Even better, though sashiko is elaborate, it is relatively easy to achieve, so you can experiment with sashiko yourself on your clothing without much worry about costly or ugly mistakes.
5. Floating Embroidery
Another enticing embroidery style you might watch for is floating embroidery, which is based on an ancient Chinese embroidery technique. Floating embroidery involves stitching on a translucent background like tulle or thin silk. By placing stitches on such delicate material, the embroidery gains a 3D effect, as though it is hanging unsupported in the air.
Floating embroidery is more painstaking and time-consuming because the translucent backing fabrics tend to be more delicate. Thus, the floating embroidery fashion pieces you find are likely to be exceedingly expensive. If you have a major event upcoming, like a wedding or gala, you might look for a gown or suit made with floating embroidery elements, which are sure to help you look and feel unique.
Since humans first learned how to put thread through needles, embroidery has been a popular method of adorning clothing. Today, embroidery allows you to personalize your fashion choices in unexpected ways, so while you are shopping for next season’s wardrobe, you should keep embroidery in mind.
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