COATS

One of us good girls has a serious weakness for coats. Reason being, when you live through winters in a cold place you start to realize the coat becomes your semi-uniform. This same good girl saw all of these fabulous coats last February at the Burberry Prorsum (Fall 2011) show and started salivating. The myriad of bright colors, plaid, fur, and fitted trench-type looks were enough to set her out to bankrupt herself. Definitely feel free to view the collection here. Also, as you're getting ready to purchase your winter coat, don't be afraid to be a little daring. We here at Thread Ethic are excited to start unveiling some of our favorites soon. (I'll just give you a little hint...it involves Ebay and fur...)

RED FALL 2011

Fashion is having a red moment this fall. Of all the bright colors designers are loving lately red seems to have really hit the spot. Not brave enough to wear the color head to toe? Just work in one red piece and mix neutrals around it. We've been wearing our favorite red pieces with tan, camel, grays and browns. Topshop has a very cool pair of red corduroy skinny jeans. Shown here, jacket and sweater Gap, blouse Forever 21, jeans Fire at Nordstrom, clutch bag Zara.

TUXEDO CASUAL

In the past we've only dressed this blouse up with chunky pearls, slacks and skirts. This time we decided to dress this front ruffled blouse down with trousers and oxfords, and quite liked the effect. Blouse Zara, trousers H&M, oxfords Target. Zara has a lovely tuxedo inspired blouse right now for those of you interested....

GRAY SHIFT

This is actually a dress we pulled out of the back closet. We wore it a lot a few years ago when trapeze/sack/mumu dresses were all the rage. We updated this hybrid between a sack and shift dress by adding a bright belt, leopard scarf and cage heels. Dress H&M, belt Nordstrom, heels Forever 21.

LOUIS VIUTTON SPRING 2012

Need we say much? We were both in agreement on how fun this line is. We're just in awe at what Marc Jacobs continues to do. Seriously, how do you manage to have two of your own lines, design for one of the oldest houses in fashion and keep coming up with collections that continually push the edges of fashion and creativity? What we love about this line is not only the 60's inspiration, but really how he changes the shapes of that inspiration. If you look through the collection (here) you'll see those 60's shapes are not really fitted the same way we'd expect to see them. Pieces are tailored to fit boxier, more loose, and with a sort of structural freedom. And really - the colors... they make us look forward to spring even though we haven't even hit winter! Enjoy!

DAYTIME LACE

Who says lace is only for the evening? We say, not so! With a t-shirt, day bag, blazer and booties lace looks cool, not prim. Lace in all it's dress codes is perfectly on trend for fall but try giving the daytime variety and try. See examples of how to add a touch of lace to a look here.