Links à la Mode: The Joy Of Toile

Discover the joy of Toile fabrics. These lovely fine prints can be found on wallcoverings, home decor, accessories and also in fashion design.

Photo credit: York Wallcoverings

Hi, vintage fans will love Toile :)

I have learned about these beautiful, fine printed garments in this week's Links à la Mode, via a lovely blog post by the Sparkle in her eye.

Pronounced ['twäl], the term is an abbreviated form of the phrase "Toile de Jouy" which means "cloth from Jouy-en-Josas", a town in north-central France.

So this is where the fine patterns originally got popular and they are now used in many places, from home decor to fashion design.

Toile in Fashion Design

You can find a lot of Toile vintage fashion on Etsy, a Web shop platform, where users can sell their lovely, mostly hand-made pieces, such as these.

Toile Dress

Photo credit: Three Little Ducks

Toile Bathing Suit

Photo credit: Fables by Barrie

Also check out what my fellow bloggers were up to last week:

Links à la Mode

The Eyes of March

Edited By Taylor Davies

Here we are, the first day of March – can you believe it? Spring will officially start this month, flowers will start to bloom (we hope!) and winter will finally start to let us out of it’s icy grip. This week’s Links a la Mode selections run the gamut from fashion week round ups to DIY projects and runway color inspirations.

A friendly reminder to all of you who graciously submit your posts for LALM: If your post is chosen for the round up, you must post the code from this post onto your own blog. The purpose of our round up is not only to share your links with our readership, but to share your fellow bloggers’ links with your readers as well. This allows each blogger to get 20 outbound links to their blog, and yours too! Many of the blogs we have been selecting lately have not been posting the code, so we are going to be policing this more carefully in the future. Thanks again everyone!

The IFB Weekly Roundup – March 1st 2012

• Aspiring New Moms: Floral Silk Dresses
• Designer Purushu: Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week AW2012
• Dress Code: High Fashion: Trend Colour SS12 - Purple
• Girl Loves Color: London Fashion Week Fall 2012 Round Up
• Girl Next Door Fashion: How To Cope With Your Remix Kyrptonite
• Fashioned By Love: Outfit Inspiration - Milan Fashion Week
• Fashionopolis: Tango With Tangerine
• Fashions On Top: Tarte Amazonian Clay Blush Review
• First Came Fashion: NYFW Favorites
• Fly Songbird: Shoe Love - Platforms and Wedges
• Just Pandippo: everyday so caffeinated ...
• Lulu Abroad: IFB Conference: Before You Go
• Lure Of The Dark Side: Trends: Would You Wear Them?
• Miss Viki Secrets: Are Unpaid Interns Modern Slaves?
• Ms. Fabulous: Red Carpet Dressing With Janet McTeer
• Pretty Quirky Pants: DIY Halter Shirt
• StyleDelights: 5 Handbags That Will Suffice (Gasp!)
• StyleEyes Ethical Fashion Blog: The Good Fashion Blog
• The Sparkle In Her Eye: The Joy of Toile
• The Merchant Project: The Dress Code