While I’m thinking about fall fashion magazines
The arrival of the fall fashion magazines has always been my signal to think about fall clothes, even when I’ve lived in places like Florida and North Carolina where, in August, fall is just a hazy promise. (In Chicago August was a reasonable time to think about fall, so that you wouldn’t be caught out on that first crisp day in mid-September; here in the Bay area it may be a chilly August but September is likely to feel more like summer than fall.)
If I were better at fashion blogging (see last week’s post) I would have a giant post with five gazillion images all laid out in the format of “my must-haves for fall!” in which any three of them would add up to more than a month’s rent in any reasonable place. but since I’m crap at fashion blogging, I just have a random list, like those you might find in the bottom of your handbag after a trip to the grocery store.
Mine is:
— olive anorak/parka/long jacket?
— full pleated skirts? pencil skirts with bag pockets?
— wool/denim/twill Heidis with long-sleeved tees/vest sweaters, tights, boots?
— boots??
— shirtdresses?
Does that list make any sense? For fall I’m feeling two palettes: one mustard, olive, maroon or burgundy, with a caramel leather or camel coat (both of which I have, thankfully); the other (more towards winter) with dark and light gray, pale blue, black, with maybe pale yellow or chartreuse or even teal again. The limiting factors here are travel: I don’t want to have half a week’s clothes in each palette so that I have to pack two coats and two pairs of boots!
I plan on riding my bike a good bit, so full skirts for days in the office, with a long anorak to keep the wind out; Heidis with boots for travel and meetings. I may be too goofy, round, and short to pull off the “multiple-long-layers over a shortish skirt, tights, and boots” look, but I can give it a try.
“Boots” has two question marks after it because I have five pairs that I love and hardly ever wear. plus one pair at the cobbler’s being stretched. Why don’t I wear them? I need to figure this out before I buy another pair, although this one is CALLING ME (only in black, please).
And I do have a couple of shirtdress patterns that really, really need to be made up. They just look at me with those puppy-dog eyes whenever I open their box … but they would be for California wear only, too lightweight for travel to cold places.
I believe the Heidis are self-explanatory …
What does your fall list look like? also — what’s not on your list? I think I’m almost done buying vintage leather jackets (after the completely impractical robin’s-egg-blue one I grabbed last week), boots (see above), tights in weird colors (have a box full), and hats, because I splurged on a couple Kangols last year (although I’m always tempted by low-cost berets) …
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