15 Winter Outfits To Guide You This Season

Hate to break it to you guys, but it's about to get freaking frosty.
I don't hate to break to you that, in fact, fall and winter are the freaking best.

Reason 1: Layering. Summer was all about getting the most bang for your buck. Aka wearing the least amount of clothes while maintaining some sort of class, dignity, and personal style.

Reason 2: Hot drinks. You can now sip an almond milk latte without sweating from various orifices as your silk blouse sticks to your back, questioning, "Why? why in 94-degree weather?"

Reason 3: The holidays. But more particularly, the holiday shopping and holiday movies and holiday egg nog and holiday decorating. Don't be a grinch, you know you love it.

Reason 4: The street style and the trends that come with it.

Reason 5: You don't have to worry about the constant, nagging fear of an abrupt pool party in which you have to wear a bathing suit after eating 2 plates of pasta an hour before.

With all these incredible and true reasons, do you need more convincing? If so, check out the 15 outfits above I found for you to ogle. If not, still check out the 15 outfits because I guarantee you'll find inspiration in at least one of them. The streets are filled with the style we all crave this season.

An oversized white button down and glossed leather ankle boots? I dig it.

Patent leather trench coats and cap toe pumps.

Plaid, houndstooth and loads of Gucci.

A RUFFLED, knitted, cold-shoulder sweater. What?!

Unexpected colors compliment and never clash.

Massive sleeves and stripes make for a drool-worthy combination.

Carry your summer dress into the new season by layering it over denim, of course!

Belting a puffer jacket (down jacket) is the french way of slimming down this oversized outerwear.

And more and more and more above. ^
Photos via: Vogue, Who What Wear and Collage Vintage.

The Art of Sunnies

What do Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and Jackie O have in common besides a signature hairdo? Signature sunglasses, of course. Think of Jackie in her oversized shades, Marilyn in her sexy, sophisticated cat-eyes, Audrey in her Manhattans. Or even, Mary Kate and Ashley, running through New York with coffee in hand, buried in oversized clothing, and in even more gargantuan shades.

The point: as far as outfit changing accessories go, sunglasses are basically at the top of the list. They add mystery. They reshape your face. They flatter the jawline. They keep the blinding sun out of your eyes while keeping you just hidden enough to avoid eye contact with that guy that just cannot stop looking over from his table. 

But, how do you find the pair that's perfect for you?

1. Square faces = soft edges

2. Round faces = angular frames

3. Oval faces =  anything BUT the most flattering = cateye

4. Heart shaped faces = Aviators

5. Cool factor = Sporty, embellished or futuristic

How to Break Out of Your Style Rut

Today, I wore a pair of high-waisted, distressed Free People denim shorts with a baggy vintage tee. Yesterday, I wore those same denim shorts with a frayed hem babydoll tank top. I spilled ketchup right on the crotch of those shorts. While daydreaming and picking at the leftover stain during the ride back to my apartment, I realized something very important. I had been wearing those same shorts for the past week. I wasn't even sure which day the ketchup incident occurred. 

I traded them out for another pair. 
They were, too, high-waisted. Distressed. Denim. 

Style fatigue materializes when we least expect it. One day, I'm resurrecting kick flares from the back of the closet, and the next, I can't see past my three pairs of kick flares in different shades. The best outfits start with a single immaculate piece, but on those uninspiring mornings, we end up reaching for what's comfortable and what's familiar. Luckily, there is a cure. I've learned that these few tips can help replenish and add excitement back into your wardrobe. 

1. Statement earrings fix everything. 

2. Add some personality to your feet. 

3. Forget about your jeans for a while. 

4. Go through your wardrobe and pull out your favorite pieces. These may not be the ones you wear the most, but the ones that make you feel the best. Now take note: what do they all have in common? Shape? Color? Fabric?

5. For every new item you add, subtract one you never wear and donate it. Win, win.

6. If you wear all black add some color! Sure, black is timeless and flattering but it can get old pretty quickly. If you're afraid of color, add them in with accessories.

7. Add lipstick.

8. Mix and match. Patterns, colors, shapes. Mix the skinny with the voluminous. The neutral with the bright. The ladylike with the masculine. Mix EVERYTHING.

9. Finally try out that piece in your closet that's been hanging there for ages because you haven't found the right occasion. Screw events and wear it to the grocery store or over to your boyfriend/girlfriends house.

10. Do a new do. And then, do you boo, boo. Pin it up, wear it down. Curl it, twist it, braid it, leave it natural. If you wear your bun to the back, put it up top for a change. Be daring. Be bold.

If you're brain hurts after standing in front of your open closet for thirty minutes, here is your solution. Have you ever been in a major style rut? How have you revamped your style lately? 

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A Saturday Denim Lookbook

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Denim. We all speak the language of denim. Up this weekend is a dependable gander through the denim lookbook of our very lives. There are no words needed to describe the universal love we all have for jeans. (See above google translated vocabulary) An important discussion to consider: Will denim ever not be a thing? Will we ever tire of it? 

Starring: Pinterest & Tumblr 
Special thanks to Google. 

I'll let you be the judge of that. 

Shop denim picks below. 

Let's Talk About It: Who Is Your Style Icon?

The good, the bag and the low rise denim. Style inspirations from the very beginning. Who is your icon?

It started with Blair Waldorf. 
I began the Gossip Girl series years after it was already off the air. I procrastinated in clicking the play button on Netflix. I eyeballed the box set sitting in the corner of my bestfriends' room, dust lightly covered the shiny teen beauties, a water stain smudged at the edges. I knew that there was something about this series. It was almost as if I was seven again, about to watch Dragon Tales for the first time. I was right. I watched the first two seasons about eight times before finally moving onto the third. I fell in love with a doe-eyed brunette made entirely of snarky comments and headbands. I emulated everything she wore. Pearl necklace. Check. Capes. Check. Bright tights. Check. My closet began to burst at the seams and all that flowed out had lace and pleats. 

There were others before her (but never quite as strong) A girl named Quinn in my Girl Scouts group. She had freckles and wore really cool sketchers. There was Cassie and Angie in fourth grade; my two bestfriends who had a large collection of low rise Abercrombie jeans and flip flops. In middle school, i'm pretty sure my style icon's were the drop outs attending Warped Tour and the 'Scene' kids nodding along to music beside me in a pitch black room, heady beats thumping under our Vans and Element skater sneaks. 

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I wouldn't take any of it back, though. The absolutely terrible, the good and the bad are all a part of who I am and how my style has evolved today. I have a lot of style icons these days, especially as the internet bloomed into the inspiration processing machine it is now. Pinterest. Tumblr. Instagram. All it takes is a quick browse and i'm three hours deep in a board titled, 'Pantone Pants' Lately, Leandra Medine, Pernille Teisbaek, Tamu Mcpherson (and countless other babes) have been my saviors. People that encourage me to focus on what you love, rather than what's in style that season. They showed me that wearing whatever piece you discover can be uniquely made into your own. 

Okay, okay. Enough about me. How about you? Who is your personal style icon then and now? Post pictures in the comments. Let's get inspired. 

A Nod To Menswear

It's All In The Details

de·tail

  (dĭ-tāl′, dē′tāl′)

n.

1. An individual part or item; a particular: discussed the details of the proposal.

2. Particulars considered individually and in relation to a whole: careful attention to detail.

3. A minor or an inconsequential item or aspect; a minutia: skipped the details to get to the main point.

4. A minute or thorough treatment or account: went into detail about his travels.

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