2011 fall fashion must haves

As most of you know we live in San Diego, California. So you probably imagine us with short shorts, flip flops, a beautiful tan, roller blades, and sun tan lotion in my purse. Well sorry to break it to you, but that is not the case. Due to our hectic realistic lives we barely have any free time, hence the lack of posts in the past months.

Thankfully today we (as in my boyfriend) decided to wake up early and go enjoy the beautiful bay we have about 10 minutes away. Once he said this, I ran to my pile of old magazines I have been wanting to read, I dusted them off, and placed them in our beach bag next to my secret stash of chocolate covered almonds. A wonderful man, the most loving dog, beautiful San Diego weather, some time off, fashion magazines, iced coffee, the bay and last but not least chocolate. Can you say perfection?

One of the magazines I brought with me was the September issue of "People: Style Watch." I know it is no Vogue or Elle, but I do like this magazine because it has 65% of items that are reasonably within my price range, as in comparison with Vogue which my be more like a 2%.

Flipping page after page of super boring and mediocre outfits by over rated "celebrities" such as Kim Kardashian, or Vanessa Hudgens, I spot something interesting;a small article on this 2011 fall fashions.  The article is calld "Top 10 Fall Fashion Trends."

I found this "check list" a bit interesting. Not because of the actual 10 points they has as the "it" fashion trends, but because of two reasons. Number one: I live in San Diego and we don't experience other seasons as much as other places, so to propose wearing a fur coat with rain boots on a 80 degree October night sounds a bit crazy. And second, I don't like to follow rules. So to read that these are the things that will be cool these next months makes me want to go the opposite way. But what if I don't do that anymore? What if I actually play with them instead?

These next couple of days I will try my best to play with the top ten fall fashion trends, which I will list in the upcoming posts.  I am thinking about doing this for this next week and see how many I can incorporate into our local demographic. Stay tuned!