So, I’m doing something new and different his week, and co-hosting the Fabulous Friday link-up with the lovely Jennie of A Pocketful of Polka Dots. I hope you’ll join our link-up party (I’m so excited to see who comes!) and maybe you’ll be selected and shared next week as a favorite blogger! But first, your regularly scheduled post!

I just wrote here about wearing bold colors in the fall, but you can also take a more subtle approach. Florals as an accent work fabulously for fall, and so many of the colors coordinate so nicely with the warm, spicy colors generally associated with the season.

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Take this Bobeau top, for example. It’s really a summery top – sleeveless in a crepey fabric. But the colors in the flowers are so rich – the deep corals and olives, gentler apricots and celadon greens – they go beautifully with the rusts and olives of fall. But they’re also strong enough to stand on their own, as they are in my outfit today. And the top itself is ideal for transitional dressing as it layers nicely under a lightweight cardigan with no sleeve bulk.

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I love letting the floral print be the strong component of the outfit, and the supporting pieces more subdued. Old Navy calls this cardigan color “Palomino,” but if *I* were naming it, I’d call it “Fair.” It’s not white, it’s not beige…it’s fair. Like a fair skinned person. It’s a very gentle color that complements a lot of other colors – I really like it with my white jeans. I like mixing tones of white like that.

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I’m wearing my favorite earrings that I bought at a handmade fair eight years ago in Brooklyn (and I haven’t lost them?! That’s amazing!). There’s not actually any turquoise in the top but I feel like turquoise complements almost everything!

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And a chakra bracelet made by adult clients with autism in one of our programs at work.

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This particular top is several years old now but Bobeau has a few very nice floral tops available currently in both plus and straight sizes:

B Collection by Bobeau Curvy Lily Floral-Print Pleat-Back Top

B Collection by Bobeau Curvy Dahlia Floral-Print Blouse

Bobeau Dahlia Printed Blouse

What I’m Wearing

  • Bobeau top, no longer available, see above for comparable items.
  • Old Navy open front sweater in Palomino. This exact style is no longer available. but there’s a hip-length one in this color in straight sizes here and several comparable items in plus sizes here and here.
  • White Gloria Vanderbilt Amanda jeans in white, size 22w short here in plus and here in straight size.

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I’m linking up today with:

And now, on to the Fabulous Friday link-up!
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Hosted by Jennie of A Pocketful of Polka Dots.
A Pocketful of Polka Dots, Fabulous Friday Linky Party

Meet your host for Fabulous Friday,
Jennie of A Pocketful of Polka Dots. ∼ Hey y’all, I’m Jennie
and I am a 48 year old frugal fashionista! I am mom to two wonderful
(and handsome!) sons and Glamma to one very spoiled Pitsky. After
spending most of my life in black and boring clothes, I now enjoy
trying new trends, am a confessed shoeaholic, believe life is too
short for boring hair, and never met a polka dot I didn’t like. I am
also an avid photographer, reader of Jane Austen, Paleo/Primal
enthusiast, and lover of DIY. You can follow me here ∼

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Jennie and I have each chosen a favorite look from last week’s Fabulous Friday linkup.  You can find hers by heading to A Pocketful of Polka Dots and mine is….(drum roll please!) (ooh, it’s so hard to choose just one, there are so many good ones!) (okay, stop talking to yourself, Bettye, and commit!)…is…Joi Smith from In My Joi…in this sensational golden velvet dress. I mean, Come On! She’s spectacular, all velvety and shimmery and attitudey, bouncing her curls and strutting her stuff!

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And now it’s time to share your own amazing looks! I can’t wait to see them!