Tips Tuesday: Summer Sweaters!

This week's tip is over summer sweaters! Now we know summer sweater sounds like a contradiction but there ARE sweaters made to wear in the summer. These sweaters are lightweight and can even be brightly colored or have prints on them. We will show you an example below of how to wear a summer sweater and give you a few tips and links on some outfits you can put together that incorporates it in there.

To the right we have Rachel Bilson wearing a "summer sweater". We can conclude it is summertime by looking at the rest of her outfit (shorts and a cami layered underneath). She is wearing a light pink button up cardigan with the sleeves scrunched, a white camisole layered underneath, denim shorts, and camel colored round toe pumps. As far as accessories, she kept it simple with sunglasses and layered a few necklaces.

Here are some links to similar items in case you want to recreate this same outfit.
Light Pink Cardigan
White Cami
Dark Denim Cuffed Shorts (You can uncuff them if you want the long look)
Necklace 1 or Necklace 2
Taupe Heels


Here's a couple of tips and links on summer sweaters and the different ways you can wear them!

Tip 1: Let's take this Wavy Stripes Sweater from Forever 21. This sweater can be dressed up or dressed down. Let's do dressed up first. To dress the sweater up you can layer a plain white camisole underneath, put on some dark denim skinny jeans , and wear with smoke bronze leopard print heels to add some "flare" to it. As far as accessories, just keep it simple with some bronze bangles and hoops. Now to keep the sweater casual you can do the same white cami layered underneath, dark denim shorts , and pair it with a of bronze sandals 1 , 2 , 3. As far as accessories go, do a simpler bangle than for the dressy outfit and maybe some bronze studs. You can pull your hair in a pony so the studs can be seen and be out the door!

 Tip 2: To the left we have this AMAZINGLY cute Foliate Knit Sweater in a sage color from Forever 21. Of course we're going to tell you how to dress this up and down as well. Let's start with it dressing down/wearing it casually. You can layer this Light Pink/Peach Colored Cami underneath and pair it with some shorts of course..but this time you can do these Khaki Woven Trouser Shorts if you didnt want to stick with the dark denim cuffed shorts. As far as shoes you can do these floral print wedges (1 or 2)  to add some print to the outfit and make it pop or even a cute pair of gold sandals: ( 1 , 2 , or 3 ). As far as accessories keep it simple with these Gold Bangles and a pair of simple Gold Hoops or Gold and Cream Studs. Now to dress this sweater up, you KNOW you have to go with Dark Denim Skinny Jeans and you can go ahead and layer a cream cami underneath. As far as shoes you could do these Taupe Leatherette Cut-out Heels or even a simple pair of Tan Wedge Heels. Bracelet 1

So now that we've given you a few tips on how to recreate these looks, hopefully a summer sweater is something you will look into adding to your wardrobe!..Although they are light and made to be worn during the warmer months, when winter hits adding some layers underneath or ontop will allow your "summer sweater" to be acceptable during the winter!