https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:22:17 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1836338 Tue, 15 Aug 2017 01:33:58 +0000 Berkeley Girl 1836338@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Shevia and Sal, thanks very much for the welcome and the nice words about my style! I've always been a clothes lover but I really have to credit YLF with helping me both reboot my look and create more cohesive, defined style.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1835995 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 03:39:29 +0000 Jaime 1835995@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Welcome - I love your hat among (many) other things! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1835961 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 02:05:59 +0000 Sal 1835961@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Welcome to the forum!! &nbsp;You have great style.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1835940 Mon, 14 Aug 2017 00:14:59 +0000 Berkeley Girl 1835940@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you rachelthrives, lyn67 and delurked!&nbsp;</p> <p>Delurked, thanks for the finds and the tip. I'm still figuring out how to navigate that stuff on the forum and that's helpful.&nbsp;</p> <p>Lyn67, ha, queen of pastels! It'll be my first time being queen of anything.... but I definitely did the whole pastel thing in a big way today! Photo below. </p> <p>&nbsp;I actually wore THREE of my NAS items, the taupe slip dress, the long cardigan and the velvet sneaker booties. Usually I'd start to blend new items into my existing wardrobe more gradually, but I really went all out today. I loved wearing this outfit, even if it's a bit OTT both in pastels and quirkiness (maybe a bit of the romantic/funky vibe that rachelthrives mentions – even though it's a dress I have a yoga top and leggings on under it). Plus curly hair today. Altogether this outfit made a bigger style statement than I'd typically make, but it checked the boxes of pretty, soft colors, romantic, moveable (meaning I could move comfortably in it), and felt fun.&nbsp;</p> <p>And it's a lot of fun to be here talking style and fashion with all of you. Thanks everyone for the warm welcome.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1835897 Sun, 13 Aug 2017 20:00:56 +0000 delurked 1835897@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Welcome. Very cohesive color palette. I especially love the gray sweater. I'm showing a couple finds for you. Click on the heart at top right to collect them for yourself. That way you will be able to add them to your future posts if you like. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1835884 Sun, 13 Aug 2017 19:23:25 +0000 lyn67 1835884@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <ul> <li>Wow, you'll be our Queen Pastels in a blink of an eye! Love your new things&amp; great style! Welcome on board!:-)</li> </ul> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1835813 Sun, 13 Aug 2017 12:00:18 +0000 rachelthrives 1835813@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Berkeley Girl, love the additions! I would have purchased several of these myself! My style is also headed in a more romantic direction lately, with lots of pink and other light-colored purchases this summer--right now I'm going for "romantic funky." The "funky" reminds me to keep it casual and not wear dresses all the time--I also have a casual, fairly active work life (teacher, plenty of getting down on the floor and helping kids into trees). Welcome to the forum! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1835723 Sun, 13 Aug 2017 01:29:11 +0000 Berkeley Girl 1835723@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lisa and Runcarla, thank you! I've been having a lot of fun with my new colors and softer look.&nbsp;</p> <p>Runcarla, I love that description of my style! Thanks.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1835714 Sun, 13 Aug 2017 01:13:09 +0000 Carla 1835714@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You have a lovely romantic style with clean classic underpinnings - if this makes any sense! I LOVE your colours. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1835708 Sun, 13 Aug 2017 00:56:37 +0000 Lisa 1835708@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Welcome to the forum!&nbsp; Lovely soft colors here.&nbsp; I too have been trying to add more softer tones to my wardrobe over time. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1835653 Sat, 12 Aug 2017 18:57:51 +0000 Berkeley Girl 1835653@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I wore the long lightweight cardigan yesterday. It was not a teaching day, so I was able to wear it with a dress. The dress (from Peruvian Connection, possibly my favorite clothing catalog/website) is a workhorse from my wardrobe, one that I haven't been wearing lately, because it's not in my current color palette, but I was happy to pull it out to wear with the sweater, and it does still fall in the "softer colors" spectrum. The scarf was a gift, and is also an old favorite. I was trying to decide whether the scarf or the hat should be the "third piece." In the end I decided on both, figuring that I'd be taking the hat off indoors – and possibly the sweater too, and then where would I be?! I actually wore my rose gold specs with this outfit, which picked up the color from the scarf nicely, but they're not in the photos because I forgot to change back from my reading glasses when I took them.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1835183 Fri, 11 Aug 2017 00:27:01 +0000 Berkeley Girl 1835183@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Laura G, thank you! I can tell we're going to enjoy seeing each other's outfits.&nbsp;</p> <p>The tunic sweater was actually an Anthropologie find. Here's a link:&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.anthropologie.com/shop/savannah-sweater-tunic?color=014&amp;quantity=1&amp;type=PETITE">http://www.anthropologie.com/s.....ype=PETITE</a><br />It looks like it's still available, although some sizes are sold out (and it's no longer on sale). </p> <p>Thanks for the compliment on the look in that photo. Tunics and "almost a dress but not quite" are big elements of my style, since they work so well over leggings and yoga pants, and I'm, ha, in and out of my clothes pretty often on a yoga teaching day. As much as I love dresses, they don't work quite as well for me on work days for a number of reasons, and the "dress over pants" look that Angie and many YLF members wear so beautifully just does not look that great on my little 5'2" frame (alas). Tunics are probably my number one "wardrobe essential" and the one in that photo was custom made for me by a local designer, so it holds a very special place in my wardrobe.&nbsp;</p> <p>And thank you very much for the tips on better ways to collect finds and add photos. Yay!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1835075 Thu, 10 Aug 2017 18:38:53 +0000 Laura G 1835075@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Berkeley Girl, I loved reading your story, I think because we're style twins! Romantic pretty? Check. Color? Check. Dresses? Check. Love Anthropologie but have to steer around the 20something looks? Check. Petite? Also check!</p> <p>I love your NAS haul, especially that sleeveless tunic sweater. I couldn't find it at Nordies. Can you post some details?</p> <p>#20 is so pretty--the tone on tone, the layering, the looks-like-a-dress-but-isn't.&nbsp;</p> <p>There's an easier way to collect photos of items you want to post about:<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="https://youlookfab.com/finds/help/">https://youlookfab.com/finds/help/</a></p> <p>Welcome to the forum! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1835031 Thu, 10 Aug 2017 16:01:57 +0000 Berkeley Girl 1835031@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks everyone! It's lovely to be here with all of you.</p> <p>Rachylou, I did not see the slip dress in the store. I'd been thinking that I wanted a slip dress for the holidays which prompted a search of Nordstrom's website pre-NAS. So&nbsp;it actually came up in a search specifically for slip dresses on their site. (I'm terrible at shopping the store, for that I need my friend Knitting Gene and her great eye.)</p> <p>RobinF, thank you! I'm glad you like my shoes. Like most women, I love shoes but just cannot wear heels at all.&nbsp;</p> <p>Laura1975, thanks! We've all been there with the black and denim, and it's a classic combo. But there is so much more fun to be had with color. We can be the change! I think color is the element of my aesthetic I'm most confident about.&nbsp;</p> <p>Those skinny pants in the last two photos are my absolute favorites. They're wheat/taupe colored yoga pants from Prana, and very thick so they can definitely be worn as pants. As soon as I realized how useful they were in my wardrobe I went to their site to buy more but they were already sold out. I wear them at least once a week and don't know what I'll do when they've worn out... In the meantime I'm continually on the lookout for replacements!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1835022 Thu, 10 Aug 2017 15:19:47 +0000 Laura1975 1835022@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Bravo! Wonderful first post. Welcome! Loving the very first pic. It's beautiful. The range of colours you like is so refreshing. I live in a sea of black and denim, sigh... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1834974 Thu, 10 Aug 2017 12:51:10 +0000 Ledonna N. 1834974@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Love your shoe choices and I look forward to your style journey. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1834967 Thu, 10 Aug 2017 12:32:08 +0000 RobinF 1834967@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like your style, casual but with pretty details and great shoes. Love the flowy looks, especially with skinny pants.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1834939 Thu, 10 Aug 2017 10:45:02 +0000 kkards 1834939@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Berkeley Girl-welcome....how great that you've found a fashion direction that's clearly working for you....and totally agree re white jeans, the 1st time i wore them during a snow storm was so liberating, and i havent looked back!</p> <p>(and i'm adding a find for the bueatiful slip dress) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1834923 Thu, 10 Aug 2017 08:21:28 +0000 rachylou 1834923@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ooh, thx for the link. Did you see it in store? If so, I'm not looking hard enough when I visit Nordies! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1834906 Thu, 10 Aug 2017 05:15:04 +0000 Barbara Diane 1834906@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Welcome Berkeley Girl. Glad you've had such a successful shop and have your style figured out. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1834903 Thu, 10 Aug 2017 04:53:20 +0000 Berkeley Girl 1834903@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for the warm welcome, ladies!&nbsp;</p> <p>Rachylou, the splurge-y blush slip dress came from Nordstrom. Here is a link:&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/a-l-c-annex-velvet-slipdress/4649278">http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/a-.....ss/4649278</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1834901 Thu, 10 Aug 2017 04:40:33 +0000 KnittingGene 1834901@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hey BG, congrats on your first post! That pleated sweater looks like it's going to be so much fun, I hope it works out! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1834897 Thu, 10 Aug 2017 04:24:54 +0000 rachylou 1834897@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Welcome to the forum! You have to tell me about the blush velvet slip dress! Wherever did you find it?! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1834892 Thu, 10 Aug 2017 04:02:01 +0000 Firecracker (Sharan) 1834892@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Welcome to the forum! It's exciting to read about how much you are enjoying this new direction in your style. It's fun to be a part of these kinds of transformations! Your fall finds are such a cohesive style, and they look great on you. I like the soft tones, and pink or blush as key neutrals. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/fall-wardrobe-refresh-including-nas-finds#post-1834887 Thu, 10 Aug 2017 03:40:07 +0000 Berkeley Girl 1834887@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I've been reading YLF daily for several years (and have turned more than a few friends onto it), but I'm brand-new to the forum, and this is my first post. As a longtime fashion and style lover, I'm excited! Hence the very long post. I really love how supportive and positive everyone is on this forum. It feels like a world away from the usual internet.&nbsp;</p> <p>Last year, heavily under the influence/inspiration of Angie, I decided to add a pair of white jeans to my wardrobe. This ended up inspiring quite the style reboot for me, and I've moved to wearing a lot of softer colors, which I've always loved, and retooling my look toward a more romantic, consciously pretty style. I have to say that I'm enjoying my clothes and my style more than ever before. I even got a pair of coppery rose gold specs when I had to update my glasses prescription a few months ago. And I love my white jeans! I actually now have three pairs, one flared from Poetry, one straight-leg from Garnet Hill, and a new pair from Anthropologie which are straight-leg and rolled for a cropped look, and feature embroidery around the hips. I couldn't resist them and will try to get a good photo.&nbsp;</p> <p>As is probably clear from the above, I tend to do a lot of catalog and boutique shopping (the three listed above are some of my favorites) rather than shopping at department stores. But YLF and my good friend Knitting Gene turned me on to the NAS last year, which has been great fun. The few items I got at last year's NAS were big winners, so I was excited to return this year, especially after KG alerted me to the blush velvet sneaker booties (I've developed quite a thing for pink shoes). It turns out that Anthropologie also has a pre-fall sale, or at least they did this year, so I also picked up a few items there. Their boho/romantic aesthetic goes well with my new look, although I have to watch out for not going too juvenile with their clothes.&nbsp;</p> <p>For this fall, I was looking to just add a few fresh pieces to my already abundant wardrobe, and continue to move my style in this new direction that I'm enjoying so much. I also wanted to replenish/update some of my basics with my new color palette in mind. My neutrals are now cream, taupe, and even blush, as well as grey, which is my perennial favorite.&nbsp;I got more than I planned, of course, but I did not go crazy (with one notable splurge-y exception). </p> <p>A challenge for me is that while what I love to wear most is dresses, I work in corporate wellness and also teach yoga, so my daily look has to incorporate active wear without looking like I'm going to the gym. I have worked on this over the years and feel that I've struck a pretty good balance, but it's still an evolving work in progress. I wear a lot of dresses on the weekends (when I'm not wearing my white jeans!), and will sometimes bring one to change into if I'm going out after work. Another challenge is that I'm very petite, and while my current style is as described above (romantic/pretty, a bit boho and also active!), I still want to look grown-up. I'm 56, and while I think I'm a relatively youthful 56 and want to enjoy that I'm very fit from a lifetime of yoga practice – I still wear body-con styles – I'm also a big proponent of both positive aging and aging gracefully; I really want to embody these values and avoid looking like I'm clinging to youth.&nbsp;</p> <p>So, with that long intro, onto the clothes! Here's what I'm keeping out of what I got:</p> <p>Sweaters<br /> Light grey Ted Baker sweater with the lace-y hem (NAS)<br /> Cream and grey pleated sweater (Anthropologie)<br /> Halogen long light-weight linen-blend taupe cardigan (NAS)<br /> Cream sleeveless sweater tunic (Anthropologie)</p> <p>Tops<br /> Silver camisole top (Anthropologie)<br /> <br />Pants<br /> White embroidered jeans (Anthropologie)</p> <p>Skirts<br /> Pleated metallic skirt (Anthropologie)</p> <p>Dresses<br /> Blush velvet slip dress (Nordstrom)<br /> Long taupe slip dress (Nordstrom)</p> <p>Shoes<br /> Cole Haan ribbed ballet flats in nude (NAS)<br /> TWO pairs of the Gentle Souls sneaker booties (NAS)<br /> <br />Bag<br /> Creamy taupe JJ Winters backpack style bag (local boutique)</p> <p>I just love the Ted Baker sweater, which I learned about on another member's post (thanks again, Susie!) and then tracked down by calling my local store when it was sold out on line. I wore it for the first time today (photo below). The neckline is a bit high for my taste but that's easily remedied if I decide to have it altered. </p> <p>The pleated Anthropologie sweater is on back order so I'm still waiting for it, but it suits my style so perfectly I don't anticipate returning it unless the quality turns out to be poor. </p> <p>The sleeveless tunic sweater is absolutely fantastic for the lifestyle fashion challenges I described above – on it goes over yoga clothes and I'm dressed.&nbsp;</p> <p>The silver camisole top is so gorgeous and also very versatile, I've already worn it a bunch, both with pants and skirts, and it's garnered multiple compliments each time.</p> <p>The embroidery on the white jeans makes them a bit more special, something I love about Anthropologie's clothes, and they are sooo comfortable!</p> <p>I got a pink-ish/dusty coral color in the metallic skirt, but could only find a photo of this silver one, which is also lovely (and tempting, I'd totally wear the look in that photo, but I'm done shopping for the moment).&nbsp;</p> <p>The blush velvet dress was an unprecedented splurge for me, I rarely buy anything at full price and I think this cost twice as much as any other splurge-y clothing purchase I've ever made. I probably shouldn't have ordered it "just to try it on," because I absolutely fell in love with it and couldn't bear to part with it. So I just decided it was the dress of a lifetime... and because everything else I got was so reasonably priced, I was still able to stay pretty much within my budget for the season. All the other clothes together added up to not much more than the ridiculous price of this one dress. But, who can put a price on love, haha!&nbsp;</p> <p>The other slip dress was a bargain, mitigating the high cost of the other dress just a bit, and it fits well into my lifestyle since I can easily slip it on over yoga clothes. What I love about both dresses is that they can be dressed up or down. &nbsp;</p> <p>Did I really need two pairs of the Gentle Souls sneaker booties? Probably not, but "need" doesn't really enter into at this point. Clearly I'm taking &nbsp;to heart Angie's recent advice about duplicating shoes that really work in your wardrobe, and these fit my lifestyle so incredibly well. I got the blush suede and the blush velvet, but, just as in the photos, they are two very different colors. The velvet is really a rose color, and the suede, a very light creamy sand color with no hint of pink at all. I love both. A word of caution about these shoes, though – they are VERY narrow. I have narrow feet and they only just work for me. I wear a 6.5 to a 7; I got the 7 in these and could not have sized up more as they are definitely the right length, but I can only wear very thin socks with them.&nbsp;</p> <p>I was able to find a photo online of the bag I got, but not the color; this blue color is lovely, but the one I bought is a buttery, creamy taupe, (close in color to the suede booties), and I love it. A backpack style bag has been on my list for quite a while now, and this one was majorly marked down at the boutique I bought it from. If anyone is looking, after I bought this one I saw that Jigsaw has a blush colored one on markdown at a great price right now.&nbsp;</p> <p>I'm not going to take pictures of myself in every item, but I'll add a few selfies with outfits I've worn so far from these finds. And perhaps I'll add more later as I put together new looks.</p> <p>In case it's not obvious, that third from the end photo is a close-up of the embroidery on the Anthropologie jeans. I'm dressed for my weekend yoga class on a foggy Bay Area morning in the second to last photo, in an outfit featuring the velvet booties (which are the only new item in that pic). And I'm not wearing anything new at all in the very last photo; I included it because I think it exemplifies my current style and gives an idea of how I've tried to combine my style goals with the needs of my very active work life.&nbsp;</p> </p>