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7 Ways To Wear A Leather Dress For Fall

What are the obvious signs of Fall? Falling leaves, pumpkin spice lattes, or leather and suede in fashion magazines?

Personally I am a sucker for leather and suede. If you shop thrift there are quite a few really great suede and leather jackets and skirts to be found (I scored two recently!). Leather dresses are much harder to come by.

I adore this thrifted leather dress from Sea of Shoes.

Sea Of Shoes Leather Dress — image source

I found this pleather dress about a month ago at Marshalls. The cut really appealed to me, fit and flare, with a sleeve.

I could see wearing this with tights and a striped long sleeve turtleneck in winter.

Here are two other ways I’ve worn leather dresses…

A sheath pleather dress with one of my handmade statement necklaces and some bronze shooties.

A real leather dress with some jeggings and groovy crushed velvet booties.

I had some fun creating some idea leather outfits for fall. Check out those boots!

Scarf Boots Dress Turtleneck Handbag

Scarf Boots Dress Handbag Sun Glasses

how to wear a black leather dress for fall

Handbag Left Boots Left Dress Handbag Right Boots Right

Would you ever wear a leather/pleather/suede dress?

Linking up with Throw Back Thursday

I think that must be true.

If I go by what is in my closet it is abundantly true.

I wasn’t able to turn my back on this little fit and flare dress from Dorothy Perkins. It was the swan song (literally as the pattern is white swans) for the Dorothy Perkins line.

I bought it at a super sale close-out at the Bay, the only store that I know of that carried this line of retro inspired clothing in Canada.

I must admit, I am sad and surprised to see it go. It was the only reason I ever ventured out to the mall anymore.

Granted, since I rarely buy my clothing retail (excepting Anthropologie…of course! we all have our vices people) I don’t own lots of that line, but the few pieces I did splurge on really stood out from other retail clothing lines.

I wore this out to the Chris Isaak concert the other night. It fit right in with his Rockabilly music and would have matched his sequined blue suit perfectly.

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Chris why oh why didn’t you see me in the third balcony waving frantically? I would have been perfect on stage next to you! I’m even wearing a sparkly belt!!! We could have sparkled like the stars together Chris!

{le sigh}

This dress is great but is clearly missing the extra magic needed to lure Chris to my seat.

Damn you fit and flare! You may be comfortable and flattering but you suck at ensuring I become Helena Christensen‘s body double tumbling around in the waves and sand with Chris á la From Here To Eternity.

Do me a favour, before you look at the photo below; slam a mickey of vodka, squint really hard, shut one eye, dip a finger in some fresh lemon juice, then rub the same finger with some fresh cut jalapenos and poke your open eye with said prepped finger, then stare for a really, really, really long time, until tears are streaming out of your bulging screaming Cyclopes eye and then… very quickly glance sideways at the photo below.

You can clearly see it is Helena Christensen me & Chris.

Uh huh.