Time to Accessorize

Now that we are firmly within the Fall season and soon to be in Holiday times, it is important to think about accessories. With the tough economic times, we need to reinvent some of the wardrobe, and when black is so fashionable… accessories are the easiest way to take last years look and turn it to this years trend.

The accessories of choice this season are unquestionably jewelry. Most often a necklace and second place goes to the bracelet, most often a bangle. Earrings are taking a back seat to larger necklaces and pins takes their usual far behind favor to bracelets, although it is hard to lose if choose any of the options.

A pointer on how to achieve a memorable look will be one question, ”Is it too much ?” If you have to ask, start subtracting immediately. If you wear an important necklace, there is no need to wear “important” earrings and an arm load of bangles. Choose one and then reduce or eliminate the other components. My choice is to keep the necklace as it is the one “thing” that can transform a look from finished to fabulous with the “closing of a clasp.”

Keep in mind that there were accessories of all categories during the Fall and next Spring collections which included gloves and belts as well, neither of which is an accessory for everyone, so it is your choice to pull together your look. And please don’t forget LEOPARD, you even saw the first lady wear albeit for Halloween, but rest assured that was no cheapy set.

I spent a great deal of time researching “the accessory of choice” and here thanks to Shopbop, Nordstrom, Bloomingdales,  Miriam Haskell, Henri Bendel, Net a Porter, and D&G is what I found. Always keep in mind “it’s a look!”