Seasonal Transitions

Finally, after four long months of summer (including the warm months of late spring), the dreaded season is coming to a close. There's no valid reason as to why I hate this season, except for the fact that the hot weather makes me uncomfortable and fashion choices can be slightly tricky. I've still made the best of this season by making warm weather fashion choices impossibly cool, but knowing that it's almost over only brings a smile to my sweaty face. I'm excited for this upcoming season because it's the first fall where I get to show off my autumn style on this blog -- I only started getting serious with the blog this past winter. Only five more days until I can wear autumn color schemes, boyfriend jeans/overalls, and the most envied fabric of the season, aka suede. However, it gets difficult when fall weather is a few weeks behind the actual change of the season. This is especially relevant in the South, so the final question is this: how can we dress for fall and still be comfortable in this awkward climate transition? I've noticed from the weather in the past week that it can be as low as 50 degrees in the morning and as high as 85 in the afternoon. If it were a perfect world, we would just have two outfits for the day. But for most of us, this isn't possible with our unglamorous and busy schedules. To fix the problem, we have to find a happy medium. And I found this solution a few days ago when the weather was especially complicated.

Dress and socks by Urban Outfitters. Shoes by Doc Martens. 

Photos taken by me. 

Playing with seasonal transitions can be really fun and experimental at times because instead of just mixing styles for the weather, we can mix styles based on seasonal trends. With fashion today, you can do absolutely anything you want, and with good reasoning, it can be deemed stylish by even the most important people in the fashion world. For example, wearing a fun, floral summer dress with grey thigh-highs and black Doc Marten oxfords completely works because it combines summer and fall trends for an outfit perfect for seasonal transitioning. Instead of just wearing thigh-highs to work with a cool and warm day, pair them with an item that screams summer on its own, but says autumn with the combination of the fall accessory. This brings contrast to outfits, and it also gives a uniqueness to a traditional fall look. The floral and bright blue pattern of the dress brings summer style, the neutral and dark color scheme of the socks and shoes brings winter style, so the combination of the two gives a happy medium -- fall style. It's a dimensional outfit -- it solves the awkward weather dilemma, but if you dig deeper, it also works with the seasonal styles. Maybe it's not everything we see on the runways these days, but putting thought into how to make a fall outfit by combining items from different seasons proves that you didn't just copy what you saw in Vogue or the Calvin Klein fashion show. Fashion isn't just buying the most expensive things you see on the runway. It requires an innovative, creative mindset that can thrive in a world that is filled with these types of people.