Stylebeat
Calling this post a ‘trend watch’ may be exaggerating a bit since the trend I’m talking about has never really gone out of style, it just lost some of its luster in recent years. It wasn’t until Chinoiserie starting regaining its popularity a few years ago that toile started to come back on the design scene in a big way.
“Toile de Jouy”, sometimes abbreviated to simply “toile”, is a type of decorating pattern consisting of a white or off-white background on which a repeated pattern depicting a fairly complex scene, generally of a pastoral theme such as a couple having a picnic by a lake or an arrangement of flowers.
I remember the days when toile was the ‘it’ pattern in home decor and was also a popular look in fashion accessories and clothing. Back then the colors were pretty classic with blue and white, black and white, red and white and green and white the color combos you saw most.
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