Fall Must-Have: Skirts (One in Every Length + Leather)

Last week I was told I have the nicest skirts.  I do favour skirts, mostly because I'm petite and don't want to shell out the whopping $7 to hem every pair of pants I buy.  Ok, maybe I'm just too lazy to take them in to be hemmed and impatient waiting for them to be ready.  There are places that say they can hem them in an hour but they are LIARS! (Kelly Ripa turned me on to cropped pants - not personally, I don't actually know her - but I haven't found many that I like.)  Since fall is my favourite time of year to shop, it's going to be extremely challenging because I'm really loving the skirts I've been seeing for fall, especially the "midi" pleated ones.  (I know I'm petite and not supposed to wear certain lengths, but I don't listen.  I think if you pair it with the right top, belt, shoes, you can make it work.)  But I know I have about 15 skirts for fall in my closet.  Two challenges for fall: 1) To wear every skirt I have at least twice, or donate/sell them once and for all. No more, "I might wear this in the future some time...maybe...I think I will...I mean it still fits so why wouldn't I?"; and 2) I need to figure out what I actually "need" unlike what I normally do, which is shop without a real purpose, overspend and be left with a lot of new pieces but nothing to pair them with or pieces similar to what I already have.  (Seriously, I bought 6 blue and white striped pieces this summer.  6!?)  One might argue I don't "need" any skirts if I have 15 in my closet (and I agree, somewhat) so I might only be able to justify buying only one - a style that's missing from my closet.  Now, which one to choose.

Mini / above the knee (some pleated)

Medina Jersey Short Skirt: French Connection

Theory Pleated Velvet Skirt: bergdorfgoodman.com

Dallin Chase

Wren

Circa Skirt: Camilla and Marc

Rodarte x Opening Ceremony Cable
Skirt: barneys.com

Another must-have: fringe!

Multicolor Fringed Wool Skirt: chloe.com

Pleated

Allegra Pleated Knit Skirt: dolcevita.com

Nanette Skirt: clubmonaco.com

Plie Miniskirt: wilfred.com

Alice + Olivia Elizabeth Striped Skirt: neimanmarcus.com

Perfect Pleat Midi Skirt: millyny.com

Alexander McQueen Pleated Wool Mini Skirt: saks.com

Knee-length / midi / mid-length / tea length

Loving Fall Tea Length Skirt: freepeople.com

Sashed Sweater Skirt: anthropologie.com

Marc by Marc Jacobs Sphinx Velvet Mid
Skirt: nordstrom.com

I LOVE anything and everything tweed!

Eckly Skirt: toryburch.com

Alice + Olivia Niall Tweed Pencil
Skirt: shopbop.com

Maxi

Marc by Marc Jacobs Cecily Jersey Skirt: saks.com

Maxi Desert Skirt: rag-bone.com

Leather

I did just sell my (faux) leather skirt on eBay so I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to replace what was once in my closet without it really counting as a purchase.

mango.com

Leather Paneled Skirt: gapcanada.ca

Joie Felecia Leather Skirt: revolveclothing.com

Dallin Chase Flynn Leather Skirt:
shopbop.com

LOVE this look!

Vince Leather Miniskirt: neimanmarcus.com

Feather skirt anyone?  I'm not going to lie, I LOVE this!  (I'm definitely missing one of these from my closet.)

Zara

Wear Me Already: Guess by Marciano Wedges - The Final Days

It's September.  Ugh.  I am not prepared.  Today I saw a woman, once again, wearing tights!  It is still warm out, people!  I know fall is coming, but you don't need to rub it in my face.  Don't get me wrong, I love tights, boots, sweaters, the whole bit.  It's my favourite season for shopping.  (Mostly I dread it because it means winter is also coming. I think I lived in California in a previous life.)  I especially LOVE looking through September issues.  But I'm trying to cut down on shopping here and fall is going to be the most challenging season.  I'm not going to pretend I won't be buying anything because I'm desperately looking through my closet to see what I can put up on eBay, just to make up for my purchase(s).  And I'll be working a bit of overtime, which I may have offered to do just so I can go shopping.  I already have a long "need list" and a much longer "wish list". It's too bad I just started falling in love with these wedges.  But like Jay-Z, it's "on to the next one".

Top: Guess; Skirt: FCUK; Shoes: Guess by Marciano;

Sunglasses: Marc by Marc Jacobs

Wear Me Already: Bright Green Handbag - Day 2

I know I was supposed to wear a different bag every day this week but I'm off on Friday again (I love summer holidays!).  I only have three coloured bags so the fourth bag I was going to wear was my Dior.  I felt I had to make an executive decision and change the challenge to be about wearing my bright coloured bags (sorry, I couldn't put this one away!)  Dior will have to wait until next week.  Either way, I'm wearing a bag other than my Louis Vuitton that I wear every day and isn't that the point of this challenge?

(On a side note, recently I noticed that I seem to have a thing for blue and white stripes. I counted 6 new items I had purchased over the spring/summer.  Not quite sure what that's all about.)

Top: Gap; Skirt: French Connection

Bag: Nine West; Shoes: Guess; Sunglasses: Juicy