Beginning School Essentials: Day 2, The Statement Dress

It is day two of our trip through the essential beginning of the school year pieces. Today I want to focus on the statement dress.
The statement dress has two rules:

It must have a head-turning pattern.

OR

It must have attention-grabbing details.

Christopher Kane Fall 2010 RTW

The statement dress has a "certain something" that makes it pop, and stick out from the simpler dresses. Basically, the statement dress is the center of attention and the center of the outfit. Without the dress the outfit is not complete, and the dress should be worn alone or accessorized/worn with simpler pieces so the outfit doesn't become overwhelming.

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Beginning of School Essentials: Day 1, The Comfy Sweater

So I figured since it's the beginning of the school year and the beginning of this blog, I would start with the essential trends for Fall 2010, especially for the beginning of the school year since we're all going back to education now.
Other than your steaming cup of morning coffee and your laptop, you've got to have some pick-me-up pieces in your wardrobe for your fresh start. You dress the way you feel or the way you want to present yourself, so let's kickstart the school year with some fresh but comfortable must-haves.

Day 1: The Comfy Sweater

Alex Wang Fall 2010 RTW

We all need that perfect sweater to wear when we feel crappy, throw on when there's nothing else that goes with our dress, or curl up in during cold mornings in the classroom or dorm.

Thrifting yourself a second hand sweater is always the best way to go, in my opinion, because you can never go wrong with a warm old sweater from the 90's, but if thrifting isn't your tempo here's some well priced options you can easily get your hands on.

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Weird Facts

"In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats."

"Roman women especially enjoyed when their husbands went to war against Germany because the naturally-blond hair of Germans captured in battle would be used to make wigs."

"The punishment of a Vestal Virgin who broke her oath of chastity was to be buried alive."

Plague Fashion?

During the 14th century when the Bubonic Plague was spreading in Europe, physicians wore these getups to supposedly keep the disease away from them. I don't know about anyone else (I'm sure most people find this creepy) but I think this is wicked fascinating.

“The beak of the mask was often filled with strongly aromatic herbs and spices to overpower the miasmas or “bad air” which was also thought to carry the plague. At the very least, it may have served a dual purpose of dulling the smell of unburied corpses, sputum, and ruptured bouboules in plague victims.”