Tag Archives: clothing

New season staples

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Entering a new season can be a bit overwhelming when it comes to style. It’s difficult to know what to get, what not to get, which trends will endure and which will be a flash in the sartorial pan. At the start of a new season I tend to be so excited to change things up that I end up taking a disorganized approach that results in impulsive purchases that I regret later (as well as purchases that I didn’t make and wish I had). Enter a whittled-down list of seasonal staples to serve as a base (and keep my spending in check). What’s on your list?

Happy (Fall) Weekend

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Happy Friday, lovelies. We’re heading down to the coast this afternoon for some much-needed shore time with friends, and while I don’t have much of an agenda planned for the weekend, I do know that there will be wine consumed outdoors, cause it’s been an awfully long week, and that it will be red, cause duh – it’s fall. One of fall’s few advantages over summer.

Speaking of fall – in light of a recent email exchange I had with friends regarding an email blast from Anthropologie pushing their boxes of seasonal decor, I resurrected this genius McSweeney’s piece on decorative gourd season. If you haven’t read it, read it. Now. But make sure you swallow that sip of coffee first. And get moving on that gourd display on your mantle.

Last year’s decorative gourd display is gonna be hard to beat.

To leather or to pleather?

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There’s quite a bit of leather/pleather/vegan leather/various other leather lookalikes everywhere this season, in pretty much every form you can imagine. I’ve found myself craving leather in basically all of those forms, and have been doing a bit of hunting accordingly. In the search I’ve run into a bit of a quandary, however: leather or pleather?

The most obvious answer is that actual leather, with its buttery texture (and non-plastic existence), is far superior. But is it? The price tag would certainly have you think so, but given that there’s such a price differential – with the whole animal-friendly vs. anything-but-animal-friendly aspect to boot – isn’t fake leather worth some consideration?

Sure, the ’80s would have us believe that fake leather in any form, with it’s plasticky, rubbery texture reminiscent of films made in the San Fernando Valley is hardly something we’d want to put up against our skin, but lately I’ve started to wonder – if they can get so good at making fake burgers, fake bacon, fake fur, fake everything, why shouldn’t fake leather be improving all the while? I’d say we should investigate.

Fall Floral

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BB Dakota mini dress , Vintage blazer (similar here), 80%20 Rina boots, Chloe sunglasses (similar here)

One of the simplest ways to transition a summer dress into fall is by throwing a blazer over it and pairing it with boots instead of sandals. We headed out to brunch on Sunday morning and given the slight chill in the air, I grabbed my go-to blazer and booties, but honestly by the time we got there, things had heated up enough that the jacket was hardly necessary. Welcome, season of layers.

Fall Uniform

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Zara jacket, sweater knitted by my grandmother, vintage belt, Current Elliott Jeans (similar here), Joe’s Jeans boots (similar here), Oliver Peoples sunglasses

As soon as the temperature starts to drop, I transition pretty directly into a fairly standard fall go-to uniform – a sweater with skinny jeans, booties and a cropped jacket. Given the somewhat erratic weather here in the South (and the warm autumns and sometimes winters we tend to have), lighter-weight sweaters are key, and this one (knitted by my grandmother) has come in awfully handy.