How To Wear Winter Jackets

For a really cold winter, what we'll talk about is how to stay warm but also look stylish when wearing winter jackets. First, let's talk about a classic black coat. Here is just a nice three-quart length coat with a really nice exaggerated sleeve and a really open neckline.

Now, this is a really classic coat. Because it's a wrap coat as well, this is a seam to seam join but you can also wrap it round the body to make sure that you're nice and warm. When you're choosing your oversized coat, go for a really nice open neckline because that gives the most amount of space to really dress up your coat and make your own stamp of style.

This neckline is really nice and open and on a less cold there, you can have a nice pretty bow blouse underneath. But on a really cold day, go for something like a fur scarf for an exciting look. You could go for colour as well but also it's a really great trend piece that you can add in to just a simple black coat.

Equally, a lot of black coats come with their own waist belt and it's usually a tie belt in the same colour. Take it off, get rid of it or keep it just to tie up things behind your bedroom door and pop on your own belt. Always go for coloured belt and something really exciting to make your black coat turn from something that's quite drab into something much more visually appealing.

You can change it up depending on your outfit. It's a really great way of updating your just plain black coat. If you don't want to have a black coat, go for colour.

Go for the blue because it's kind of just a step away from black. It's not too crazy, it's not going to lose its style next year or cut you all the way through. It's a nice single-breasted, so nice and slimming, high neck so you don't have to do too much in terms of keeping warm and it's just a classic shape.

It's much more formal than a wrapped over jacket but it gives you great seaming detail on the back which really cinches you in. You could add in a little bit of green for a belt, or a red belt, or have as much fun with accessorizing but keeping it a real classic look. Add colour with the scarves and the gloves.

Then, you have a print jacket or coat. It's double-breasted so it can bulk you out, it's a great tweedy print and actually, it's really easy and versatile to wear. But this jacket is really nice and open.

You can bring in any of those colours that are on the jacket already into the scarf, follow it through with fur again but the print is the really key thing. So if you're going for print, make sure you keep everything else that you're accessorizing it with very simple. Maybe go for a fur scarf or a solid coloured scarf, a solid coloured glove and keep those luxury colours as well, the gold at the buttons, maybe introduce that to your handbag just to bring up a level.

Go for something really bold, something really statement, but at the same time, don't expect it to be able to go from season to season. It's really a one-off thing, a real statement, a bit like this little yeti number. Obviously, it's not waterproof and it's probably not winter-proof but it's fantastic.

The fur will, if nothing else, keep you completely and utterly warm and snug, but again, cinch in at the waist, change up the belt, add some colour, add some different textures, get a leather glove going on. But make sure that you keep with your classic coat shapes just to see you through season after season after season. So, you got lots of different options there.