https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:08:12 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do/page/2#post-1547631 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 17:50:18 +0000 Anonymous 1547631@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like to dress in seasonal colors whenever possible, but the weather is wacky sometimes and can be warmer one day and cold the next. It's like it can't make up its mind which season it wants to be. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do/page/2#post-1547440 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:42:31 +0000 Cheryl L 1547440@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I live in the middle of the United States (a suburb of Kansas City)so we have wild temp swings all 4 seasons.<br /> I am like Celia in that I can wear different accent colors based on skin tone which changes season to season. My base neutral is denim. I focus on teal and burgandy in different weight fabrics from September thru November.<br /> I grew up in coastal Florida so never paid attention to seasonal colors/clothing until I was dragged to the middle of the US (hahaha) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do/page/2#post-1547417 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:16:18 +0000 Anonymous 1547417@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Temperature dictates everything. &nbsp;I actually ignore the seasons and focus on the real life climate. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do/page/2#post-1547340 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 10:50:16 +0000 Helen11 1547340@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This is fascinating. I have always lived in the tropic /sub tropics. Temps under 20C see me pulling out jeans and boots, and generally a bit more black.<br /> I don't think we have calendar -based fashion rules. Or maybe I am oblivious!<br /> I go by temperature alone. The big stores change seasonal stock at frustratingly early times. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do/page/2#post-1547332 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 10:30:54 +0000 Summer 1547332@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I keep my summer clothes going for as long as possible, as our summers are relatively short here in the UK. &nbsp;We sometimes have some lovely sunny days in September and early October, but then things can change very abruptly. &nbsp;At that point, I start to trade some of my turquoise and lighter blues for purple and berry shades, and phase out the white.<br />So, yes, I take my lead from temperature rather than the calendar. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do/page/2#post-1547267 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 05:39:26 +0000 Cerinda 1547267@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My palette shifts seasonally, but doesn't entirely change. &nbsp;If it's hot, I wear more white, and it's been <i>really </i>hot this year. &nbsp;The days are noticeably shorter, and the light warmer, so I'm wanting more cream and taupe and grey. &nbsp;However, our temps are still high, so that means picking and choosing: &nbsp;my wine booties and bag are in rotation, but not yet my wine clothes; wearing lots of natural linen; only baseline black; feeling a little over ink and navy. &nbsp;</p> <p>This may just be what's been drummed into me: &nbsp;my mother insisted that wardrobe colors had to change with the calendar, even if one had to keep to the previous season's fabrics to be comfortable. &nbsp;Looking forward to breaking out my linen sweaters in rust and wine after Labor Day. &nbsp;Thanks to YLF I might actually learn to keep wearing white past then! :)</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do/page/2#post-1547189 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 03:22:12 +0000 Colette 1547189@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I dress for the temperature and don't try to push the seasons. I do wear a bit more color in the summer and it's about this time I start to wind down wearing my summer brights. (Similar to Lisa I have two throw pillows and a rug in the mud room I change in my house seasonally.) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do/page/2#post-1547178 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 03:00:37 +0000 Windchime 1547178@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I use the temperatures as a guide to which capsule to dress from. We've had three days now with temps in the 60's and I've gone back to clothing from my late spring capsule. On the other hand, I just read that early September is going to bring the highest temperatures we've had in sixty years, so I expect I'll keep dressing from my summer capsule, even if the calendar says September. It's all about being flexible! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do/page/2#post-1547166 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 02:44:08 +0000 Shelly 1547166@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I probably dress for three seasons. Summer is quite hot here and I don't wear much black at all I mostly wear lightweight fabrics and cotton if I can.I don't wear long pants or jeans.</p> <p>&nbsp;For winter I change out short sleeve for long and wear jackets. </p> <p>For Spring and Autumn I wear about the same which is getting out of shorts and into longer pants and jeans and transition from short sleeve t-shirts to long.</p> <p>I live in a beach-side town so would never wear heavy colours like brown or burgundy except in the middle of a cold winter. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do#post-1547122 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 01:29:02 +0000 Suz 1547122@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ooh, Lisa, can you come and re-merchandise my home and closet? I always WANT to do this, and get further along towards it in my closet than in my home. You would have to persuade Mr. Suz...he has trouble with this idea for some reason. I have always wanted to switch up slipcovers in summer/ winter, as well as accessories. Hmmm.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do#post-1547109 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 01:12:47 +0000 Jaime 1547109@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am in a similar weather situation. I will start wearing slightly different clothes as the weather goes from the 90s to the 80s. Around people start wearing boots when the temperatures hit 79!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do#post-1547045 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 23:28:00 +0000 E 1547045@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Peri, I still wear my usual muted, cool colours, but my autumn wardrobe is heavier on the taupes and browns and reds while my summer one has more blues and soft whites. It's more of a ratio thing than complete change, though, as I wear all of the colours that I've mentioned, and several more, year round. Just in different combinations I suppose. Really, switching colours was as much to comfort myself when I was in a climate I loathed than anything else! But I also find a lot of inspiration from nature, so I reach for my oak leaf brown trench more in autumn and my raincloud grey one more in spring. This is part of why I have an extensive wardrobe. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do#post-1547039 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 23:12:23 +0000 Anonymous 1547039@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm like a retail store itching to change over the seasons a little early. &nbsp;I treat my home and my closet the same way subtly making changes to colours (first) and then fabrics and textures a little later as the temperature changes. &nbsp;I re-merchanise (the only way to describe it !) my house by the season too, changing up pillows, rugs, accessories, dishes etc according to the season. Even now, at the end of August, I'm done with summer brights and have moved into darker tones . &nbsp;I find the changing light and the shorter days bring new inspiration to change up things, and I've changed to a black pedicure, moved out the brights, and am ready to bring out some darker lightweight pieces now. &nbsp; &nbsp;White jeans get a pass into fall though &nbsp;My closet rotates around 4 times a year! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do#post-1547026 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 22:32:00 +0000 Anonymous 1547026@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What Always Trying said. I get so tired of our long simmer season that I try to break it up. The school teacher in me demands autumn colors after years of putting up September bulletin boards (and leaves used to turn and fall in September). Otherwise I'd be in things I'd already worn for 3 months until late October or even November. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do#post-1547024 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 22:24:01 +0000 Peri 1547024@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Interesting answers! It does seem to be location based for most of us.&nbsp;</p> <p>For me, I don't think of colors as seasonal..I just think of colors I like! I wear the same ones year round. I don't have much in the way of traditional "autumn" colors, and wouldn't think of buying lightweight things in these colors to be more autumn-ish. Same with Spring...I don't do pastels. As a result, I'm in summer clothes until it cools off, and then transition to some long sleeve things until it is time for sweaters.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do#post-1546973 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 21:22:37 +0000 Suz 1546973@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>ETA, when I talked about light...this is especially important for me in "spring." When the rest of the world has moved to wearing lightweight clothes, I am still in snow boots. Literally. So I have a few cashmere sweaters in light or pastel tones that look like "spring" to me. Along with cream jeans, light coloured booties, a silk blouse in spring like tones. In other words, winter weight stuff in spring like colours.&nbsp;</p> <p>This is less vital for me on the autumn end, because it very quickly goes from summertime heat to boot weather. It usually happens by the third week of September, and then it's booties, boots, tights -- basically winter but at least no snow boots and puffer coat.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do#post-1546972 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 21:19:35 +0000 Suz 1546972@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I go by temperature and light.&nbsp;</p> <p>For the most part I wear the same colours and neutrals all year -- but in different combinations/ doses and with different accent colours emphasized. So, there's always blue. But in summer, there is cobalt. In winter, there's more ink and navy and no cobalt. There's always white -- but in winter, it's cream or winter white. In summer, optic white for shorts and jeans. And so on.&nbsp;</p> <p>Blue and white are my summer staple. I tend to go lower contrast in fall and winter.&nbsp;</p> <p>I don't wear most of the traditional autumn colours very well, apart from cranberry/ burgundies and purples. So I try always to have an item or two that I can wear in those colours in a not-too-heavy fabrication. Or at least a scarf. I also wear my light plaid jeans a lot more often in autumn, and my light taupe jeans. Plus my light taupe booties.&nbsp;</p> <p>I guess what I am saying is that I typically reserve a few items mostly for one season or another.&nbsp;</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do#post-1546967 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 21:16:30 +0000 milehighstyle (Linda) 1546967@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>A good part of my work wardrobe is all season, which I can wear in warmer weather without tights and in cooler weather with tights.&nbsp; Those are the kind of things I wear when transitioning from summer to fall and from spring to summer.&nbsp; Pencil skirts instead of very lightweight "high summer" skirts;&nbsp;blazers and jackets&nbsp;that are neither wool nor linen; bare legs but with closed toe shoes instead of sandals; ankle pants with lightweight long sleeve&nbsp;tops.&nbsp;&nbsp;I don't really&nbsp;do seasonal&nbsp;colors as much as fabrics.&nbsp; For work, the outside temperature is not really important as the a/c is frigid and the mornings are cool.&nbsp; The walk to the train (all of 5 minutes) after work&nbsp;may be a bit uncomfortable if I'm wearing long sleeves, but I can handle it.&nbsp; The buildings provide a lot a shade.&nbsp;For weekends, I'll be in shorts until October unless we get&nbsp;a really unusual cold snap. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do#post-1546965 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 21:14:06 +0000 Elly 1546965@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Temp-based for me. However, if I moved to a hot climate I'd probably have to create a larger "transitional" capsule-- right now my warm and hot clothes are pretty much split 6 months and 6 months and I combine the two to cover most of my transitional weather. If I lived somewhere hot I would definitely have a 3rd season where I wore clothing like linen long-sleeves.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do#post-1546944 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 20:45:29 +0000 CocoLion 1546944@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It depends on where I am. &nbsp;If I'm at home, it's hot well into September. By mid-November it finally starts to cool.</p> <p>I have started to change my color palette in late August/September just to keep things fresh. &nbsp;I have olives and burnt oranges that I pull out, but the fabrics are still made for hot weather. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do#post-1546941 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 20:40:24 +0000 gryffin 1546941@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Boots, I live for boots. &nbsp;I still wear booties all summer but short or cut out. &nbsp;Unless it's dreadfully hot, third week in september, I begain again....leather only. &nbsp;Suede won't come out till it cools down. &nbsp;I never last past that point. &nbsp;If we get a cold snap then labor day would be my cut off!! &nbsp;I'm hopeless!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do#post-1546934 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 20:30:22 +0000 Word Lily 1546934@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't wear different colors for different seasons (at least not that I've noticed; I certainly don't wear many colors I've traditionally thought of as autumnal), but I do have a yen come this time of year to be wearing fall-ish clothes — I love layering, etc. — despite the tendency for September here to still be generally warm/summery.&nbsp;</p> <p>Maybe because school has already been in session here for more than two weeks? Maybe because we're losing huge chunks of daylight every other day, practically? These are cues of autumn, even if the temps aren't (for the most part) agreeing with that yet.</p> <p>I think for me, this translates to addressing the transitional fall/spring seasons, which I kind of ignored for years, but which we really have four months of (if you count spring and fall together) here. </p> <p>I've started looking for pieces that communicate Fall without being suffocating when it's not actually all that cold. And, likewise, pieces that communicate Spring but that won't result in me getting frostbite.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do#post-1546909 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:51:53 +0000 always trying 1546909@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Our hottest months here are August, September and most of October. I am so tied of hot and the hot weather dressing, but when it gets in the 90's not much choice. Hopefully as we get shorter daylight hours it will get cool enough &nbsp;in evenings for some more fall wear.&nbsp; I usually try to wear some more autumn colors after labor day when I can. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do#post-1546907 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:48:29 +0000 E 1546907@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>When I lived in south Texas, I built a hot autumn capsule (summerweight fabrics/cuts in more autumnal colours) to keep my sanity in September and October. Now I can happily just follow the temperatures, since my new four season NE climate corresponds fairly well to my mental seasons (I did find a few cold spring pieces helpful in early April, but I love cold temps, so no matter how long winter wishes to last, my sanity was never in peril). I have to be careful though that my enthusiasm for layers and handknits doesn't make me bundle up at the first sign of cool temps, and then be stifled since my body runs warm. Lol </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do#post-1546890 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:28:45 +0000 celia 1546890@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I do change colors as the seasons change, kinda. I could tell you that it is because we have 4 distinct seasons with very different light and mood ( if not temperature sometimes ), and the cold seasons are so long that we have to make it feel like Spring somehow even if there is snow on the ground. My skin tone changes with seasons and I can wear different color , and my mood and color preferences change with the seasons. And this is all true. However I also do it because it's fun. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do#post-1546877 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:15:50 +0000 cobalt 1546877@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Here in northeast Wisconsin, Labor Day is the cue to transition to fall clothing -- and in fact with temps barely reaching 60 this week, I've already pulled out a handful of sweaters. &nbsp;How many days until spring? &nbsp;:) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do#post-1546876 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:13:07 +0000 Elizabeth P 1546876@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Great question Peri.<br />I dress for the temperature, and even then, I push things... my toes refuse to be put away until they are cold.&nbsp; Part of that is that covering up season is sooooo long, I don't want to head into those clothes before I have to.&nbsp; The other part is that I am generally in denial that yet another summer has flown by.</p> <p>I wear the same colours year round, although I do wear a LOT more navy and black in the winter, and white and colours in the spring/summer.&nbsp; </p> <p>I always thought this "no white after Labour Day" thing was so strange... we can get some of our warmest days in September.&nbsp; Perhaps not warmer than August, but certainly warmer than July.&nbsp; </p> <p>Sept/early Oct can be a visual hoot here actually, you'll get somebody with a sundress and flip flops walking with somebody in knee high leather boots.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do#post-1546875 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:09:44 +0000 kerry 1546875@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I live where there is a distinct fall albeit a short one. I love it! Having said that, I wear what's temperature appropriate rather than what season it says on the calendar. I will, though, start breaking out colder weather gear for temperatures higher than I would in Spring. It's all relative. In fall 70 starts feeling cool whereas in spring, it usually feels pretty balmy after a long, cold winter Oh, and I don't do fall colours well so that's out for me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do#post-1546872 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:00:06 +0000 Jenn 1546872@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I keep my whole wardrobe out year-round, because Colorado is weird. We're already having mornings in the 40s, with afternoons in the 90s. If we go up into the mountains, all bets are off. It can easily be snowing up there in July, and even down here, it's been known both to flurry and top 100° in June (though not generally on the same day). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/do-you-change-before-the-temps-do#post-1546868 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 18:52:12 +0000 Laura (rhubarbgirl) 1546868@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rachylou makes a good point - here the light starts changing and the days get noticeably shorter before it gets seriously fall temp-wise, so I tend to aim for some sort of "warm fall" in-between in my outfits. Colors and styles that aren't so full-on summer, but are still light enough to be comfortable in the middle of the day when it's warm. And layers to deal with the variation between times of day, and if you're traveling between microclimates.</p> <p>The range throughout the day is what I've struggled with in spring and fall, even after living in the Bay Area for 15+ years. I grew up in a place that pretty much stayed warm when it was warm or cold when it was cold. I just looked up the weather for today and the high is supposed to be 93F and the low 63. Thirty degrees variation in temperature, how even do you dress reasonably for that? Even assuming most of us aren't out and about at 3 am in the morning, when it's coldest, it's still a 20+ degree temperature variation between early morning, midday, and evening. </p>