AUTUMN CASUAL - Military Green

We know it's starting to get a little cooler for shorts, but the weather is still fluctuating all over the country that we're still happy to bring these into fall. For instance, we're going to be in Austin TX next week and it's still definitely warm (which hopefully should justify my packing these shorts, but up until this point the country has definitely gotten cooler). Regardless, this outfit worked well for a drive through the canyon a bit ago. There's nothing like aspen groves in the fall. But let's get to the outfit. So military green. Yeah it's a HUGE trend that started this fall and is now going strong into the spring lines (if you walk into any Zara right now, you'll see that they've picked up on the trend heavily). So we're excited to showcase it in these shorts. Also, we modest dressers are going to like that longer shorts were also seen on quite a few runways. These are a tiny bit short, but I love that the cut is so different than the typical modest short. Shorts are Walmart (men's), t-shirt, Forever 21; sweater, Target; sunglasses, Topshop.

BURBERRY PRORSUM FALL 2012 - major inspiration

Some people over here are probably about ready to shoot the girl going on and on about Burberry Prorsum this week. Why? Because one of us just got a jacket that all she could think was "oh my gosh, this is just like something out of their collection, but at a fraction of the cost." So now she's super excited to start recreating looks in the same vein. Although the jacket looks more like something from the resort collection we showcased here, we had to finally show you the fabulous looks from the fall line. And to tell you the truth, we've been waiting a long time to show you guys this. Try since March. So look out, Burberry inspiration is soon to flood into these pages. We think it was our favorite collection of the fall.

YELLOW DRESS

And here is some yellow for your Tuesday. We happen to like the yellow and grey pairing. Might have to try it ourselves sometime.

OUR TAKE ON DVF SPRING '13

Proud to be breaking out some orange in the name of autumn. You guys probably think we're crazy for continually stressing the fact that orange has been very 'in' these last couple of seasons. And we're sure you won't be surprised when we tell you that it was ALL OVER the runways for spring 2013. Yeah no surprise there. Here's our take on an orange and navy pairing seen at Diane Von Furstenburg  2 weeks ago. And if you haven't been able to tell yet, that cuff is quite the favorite of mine at the moment. People are rarely seeing me without it these days.  Top, thrifted; pants, H&M; bag, Aldo; shoes, Chinese Laundry.

COCKTAIL ATTIRE

We wish we had this dress for stage. It's quite the perfect cocktail attire wear. Of course we forgot to ask her where she got it. Not the greatest move on our part. But regardless, it's quite pretty.

MOAB

Alien Planet

The Hummer Tour 

(yes, that's right. over rocks)

 that is not a road.

(those are tire marks)

 (you can't quite tell)

(but the incline in this next picture is almost completely vertical)

 Sister's cute outfit

 

Sperry: the way to go

The Grotto Concert

 The River Trip (to the Grotto)

 Arches

Ok So I'm not going to lie. I packed horribly for this trip to Moab. Here I thought I was doing so well too! I realized I had nothing other than my jean cut offs (how did this happen?) and a white pair of shorts for multiple occasions. I thought I dressed well for one of the evening concerts (in a theater), but when I showed up, I realized I was OVERLY dressed...it's MOAB gosh dang it (one day we'll have to show you what I wore though...it was very much inspired by Dolce and Gabbana...but I digress). Back to the jean cut offs...they were definitely getting old by the end of the trip. On the early, cold (let's don't forget that) - morning of the hummer tour I asked my sister what she was wearing, "jeans." My text back to her consisted of "good gosh I didn't even bring any long pants!" So she ended up looking all cute and I looked like I only brought one pair of pants (which was pretty close to being accurate). OK and then there was the fedora. I knew we'd be doing crazy things and instead of just pinning my hair back, I decided "hey! the hat will just cover the mess." I ended up at the Grotto concert (a REALLY cool natural amphitheater on the Colorado river) wearin' my trusty hat. Well, after the concert it was time for...you guessed it, pictures. Not just any pictures either; pictures with notable people (like Leonard Bernstein's daughter, the heads of Steinway and Sons, the founders of the Moab Music festival, and a particular shot with Juilliard musicians that was supposedly getting sent to the heads of The Juilliard School). And guess what...I frantically pulled off my hat, got right in my sister's face and said..."hair?" Her reply face said it all. The hat went back on. And so, there is a cute little fedora that made it into every more official picture that day. So it pains me to include more pictures of jean cut offs and fedoras, but alas, it was the Moab uniform.