‘What Price Do You Want To Pay For Fall Fashion?’ Series #2

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‘What Price Do You Want To Pay For Fall Fashion?’ Series #2

August 8th, 2006 by markdownmom

This year’s fall fashion can be summed up in one word–Leggings! This style from the 80s is back and is more popular than ever. Everyone looks great in leggings, especially in black and brown, and you can easily wear them straight from the work place to a night out on the town.

This item of simple sophistication can be spiced up by wearing it with long tunic tops, long camisoles, sweaters, mini-skirts and even sun dresses. Chic looking outfits are kept as a uniform color. Depending upon the rest of your outfit, leggings can be worn with high to low heel shoes and ballet style flats. According to Shop Etc. when wearing skirts with leggings, the shorter the skirt the smaller the heel. Therefore, the best choice for mini-skirts are flat shoes. Other accessories that work well with leggings are layered necklaces, preferablly three necklaces of increasing length. To get you started on your leggings search, look at the following sites MDM has found.

Bloomingdale’s™ has a number of leggings in various styles and colors. MDM likes the Three Dots Long Leggings for $78.00. The Three Dots Long Leggings come in granite, clove, black and dark blue in sizes 0-10. These longer leggings are extremely fashionable with a long sweater that can be layered with a camisole, tank top or t-shirt.

Nordstrom’s™ is also stocked up on leggings. For a twist on leggings, look at Splendid Leggings in army green, sizes XS-L for $50.00. Other available colors are black, expresso and vanilla.

Spiegel® has a sale on leggings ranging from full length to capris. A classic look that should be made a permanent is the Pintucked leggings. This sophisticated look features tapered leggings with back pintucks. For something different, try pairing these leggings with high heel to medium heel shoes in black. Only available in black in sizes 4- 18 , on sale for $29.00.

This is the time to pick up leggings at JCPenny™. JCPenny™ has a sale on Mixit® Leggings in black. Mixit® has full length and tapered legs in sizes XS-XL for $14.99. These leggings would look great with a jean mini-skirt.

Lane Bryant™ has leggings in plus sizes (14-28) for a great price. The hottest look is the cropped leggings in black, reg. $ 29.50 , on sale for $9.99. Leggings also come in white. This is a great look with long tunic tops or even a dress!

Target™ carries the hard to find brown leggings in deep chocolate. The Mossimo leggings hit slightly above the ankle and are a steal at $9.99.