Monday, October 17, 2011

Fall Style

Wear your style with pride - and don't be ashamed to dress up!  There is no shame in looking good.
I hate the jeans-for-every-occasion look.  I've been thumbing through these kid's archeology mags that my mom brought over and it came to mind yesterday when I was at Mass - What if the church was suddenly buried and everyone preserved exactly the way they are standing right now?  How would people look at our civilization?  Most of the people there were dressed in jeans or sweatpants.  I'm not super picky about other people's clothing, but sometimes it makes me wonder:

"The Pollock diggings provide a valuable link between the citizen-slave communities of the twentieth century and the tribal anarchy which succeeded them. Here you see a people of advanced culture, capable of an elaborate draining system and the construction of permanent highways, overrun by a race of the lowest type.  The measure of the newcomers may be taken by the facts that their women were devoid of all personal adornment and that the dead were removed to burying places a great distance from the settlement - a sure sign of primitive taboo..." Brideshead Revisited, page 7.

Anyway, my style picks for this fall:
1. The Fisherman sweater: of course you have to find one that fits right - they can have the effect of looking doudy - especially if you are petite and wearing something sort of shapeless (talking from personal experience here)  but on guys, you can't go wrong.


2. Fair Isle sweater dress - I loved this sweater dress from Anthropologie when it came out a couple of years ago.  Of course I couldn't buy it at the time, but I still like it.  I would pair this with jeans and a cardigan- yes I know I just mentioned the ubiquitous jeans, but I do wear jeans sometimes - just not everyday and every occasion! Fair Isles sweaters are beautiful, but you have to know how to wear them.  You don't want to end up looking like this:
               Agh!  Just a little too over accessorized!  Not into the desperate housewife look.  That pursed mouth could have something to do with it.

3. Leather oxfords - all my heels have kind of hit the back of the closet lately because I am always walking down at least two flights of stairs, sometimes with a child in each arm, so I would really like to prevent killing myself, and them.  So ballet flats and oxfords are now my go tos.  But I think the oxfords are my favorite.  Maybe its just me getting influenced by trends, but I really think they make every outfit. 
   
And of course, the best accessory, a large Baroque house!  Oui la :)


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