When you feel a little down, do you ever sit around in your bathrobe and wonder what might make you happy again? Well, anything called a mitten dress makes me very, very happy.

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I'm enjoying this new layered sweater dress thing that Max Studio has going on.




See them all here.

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My color palette could best be defined as "muppet." As such, these please me:



Sleeveless mini dress from Chloe and leather tote from Miu Miu.

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Plaid dress from SOC.

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What I would be wearing in a parallel universe. One where it's spring time.



Nicole Miller ruched silk dress $213 and Furla white leather tote $126

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My figure is less "hour glass" and more "well padded in the hip area". Which means I need this dress. Obviously.


Karen Walker Hour Glass Dress from Le Train Bleu.

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Eco Citizen just opened up in all its organic, sweatshop-free glory. I can support a store that denounces the use of big-eyed waifs in clothing production.


Shift dress in entirely waif-free bamboo jersey ($160).

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Frock is such a charming word, isn't it? Calls to mind debutantes sipping tea. Or gin.


Capsleeve dress ($20) from Forever 21. Try with deep purple tights and high-heel maryjanes.



Open back knit dress ($18 ) also from Forever 21. Would look nice with a long, multi-color scarf.

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I'm a big fan of vintage. But vintage is tricky - delicate cloth, mini sizes, pawing through racks and racks of elderly duds. Here are a few dresses that look vintage, minus the frayed seams.



Wee bolero jacket and full skirt - '50s with a modern edge. Myth and Ritual dress from San Francisco's In Lieu.



Another full skirt. For extra points, wear with a cardigan buttoned at the top. She-bible cathedral dress from Doe in San Francisco.

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Magnolia trench. Also works as a dress. Crafty.

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Peter Pan jacket dress from plum & pear ($389). Wear as a dress with high brown riding boots, wear as a coat with dark jeans. Just don't assume it will make you fly.

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Gray is the new black. Sorry, it just had to be said. As the prime neutral for fall, gray is best paired with bright blues and yellows. Or maybe a pair of the red ballet flats I will lust after until the day I die. Then someone will have to go out and and buy me a pair so I can be buried in them.


Structured army jacket from Forever 21 ($35). It will never see battle, aside from the daily commute, but the wide collar and belt are to die for. (Sorry. Cliches feed my weary soul. Not unlike Snickers bars. You know they're bad, but you just want one. )


Lovely gray thermal knit dress from Alice Temperley for Target ($25). I'm thinking bright tights and tall boots.

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I adore the belted gray trench. Makes me want to go comb Target for a gray jacket and yellow belt.


(via Fifi)

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As the air crisps and our thoughts turn to boozy hot chocolate, the fashion world turns its collective eye toward spring. Badgley Mischka does it right.


(via love made visible)

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I don't know about you, but this dress was made for me. Flirty (well, I'm not, but the dress is), a-line skirt, contrasting accents, pleating at the bust. June Cleaver meets Alice in Wonderland.

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Half men's dress shirt, half Dickensian nightgown, this stripe tunic shirt dress is all awesome.

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I think it's awesome to pretend you have no waist. Especially if you do so with a bubble skirt and a fetching pixie haircut.



(luau dress from Julie Haus and jersey dress from Joie)

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Having been somewhat indulgent in the sparkling wine arena last night (there's nothing girlier than sparkling wine - except almond sparkling wine), I'm feeling somewhat fuzzy. Were I to indulge again this weekend, maybe on a lawnchair with my bare feet in the grass and a margarita in my hand, I would want to wear one of these dresses. And that's all the commentary you get because FUZZY.




(twigs and branches dress and river of grass dress, both from Anthropologie)

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Alternate title: Spring Dresses if You're Attending a Funeral.


All right, this one might be a bit short in the skirt to be funeral appropriate, but it's quite sweet in a black sort of way. My mistake! It claims to be a polka dot chiffon dress. My computer monitor is a bit dim. If there are polka dots I'm not seeing then you really don't want to wear it to a funeral. Unless the deceased is Irish; I hear the Irish have themselves quite a party when someone kicks it. In which case, polka dots and thigh display might be fully warranted.


Gray is quite popular recently, and I encourage it. For both its durability and its red shoe options. (I think gray dresses look awesome with red shoes. If I'm wrong, don't tell me. Because it's way too late now.) Rosette cami dress.

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Part one because I am lazy and can eke several days worth of posts out of one tired topic by not showing them all at once. It's called building suspense, people! Actually, it's not. But what screams "spring" higher and screechier than a strapless, stripey dress? Nothing! That's what! (Please note, dress will not actually shriek at you. But your roommate might if she sees you've bought another dress but not yet paid the phone bill. Not that any of you would do that. Just saying.)



How about a dress that reminds me of a butterfly for some inexplicable reason? Yes, I like it too.


And that's all you get for today. OOH, THE SUSPENSE.

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