Stylin' In Lands' End Summer Dresses

Summer, my favorite season, is always on my mind. Lands' End is already selling its summerwear ... and look at all the super cute and practical dresses!

The dresses featured range from 100% cotton to nearly 100% cotton with a touch of spandex. All are machine washable and dryable. I also like the casual smart style of the dresses. Dress them up or down, with a change of shoes and accessories. They can go from afternoon errands to a night out on the town.

This last-bottom dress👇 is really a beach coverup but doubles as a lovely summer dress. The dresses come in multiple colors and patterns. 

My experience with Lands' End cotton dresses is the cotton fabric is substantial and durable. It takes decades to wear the dresses out making them good investments. Plus they go on promotion often!

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A Difference In Style: Classic, High Fashion And Trendy

1, 2 or 3 ... Guess Scarlett's style?

Clearly there are style differences between classic, high fashion and trendy. You know it when you see it, but how do you define them?

In a nutshell ... and using photos from the same event, the Golden Globes 2020, let's explore a few differences between the 3 styles. Think of the following as your cheat sheet:

Go here to see the photo credits from CNN Style of the Golden Globe dresses used as examples.

1. Classic style is timeless. Simple, elegant, understated, abiding. The look has a lasting quality that never dates, or goes out of style. A dress you could wear in 1950 or 2020.

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Go here to see each of the dresses with photo credits and more. 

2. High fashion style is custom-made-and fitted. Traditionally high fashion, or haute couture is expensive. One of a kind garments hand stitched using the finest fabrics. Nowadays they are the dresses you often see on a runway, or television awards' show. They are meant to be noticed or to surprise, yet often you can't wear the dresses anywhere else as they are impractical, and as a society, we've become very practical. Frequently the fun just doesn't transfer off the runway.

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Go here for photo credits and to see all the Golden Globe after party dresses.

3. Trendy style is what's popular today, the latest fad, what collectively everybody is wearing for a duration of time. The up-to-the-minute mode can range from style [mini or maxi dresses, skinny jeans] and quirkiness [underwear as outerwear, or short pants] to fabric [faux fur, velvet, lycra], and color [4054 classic blue in 2020], or patterns [like Royal Stuart, Prince of Wales, and Houndstooth plaids].

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At times the styles can overlap ... and how fabulous when they do! You can be on trend and still classic, or classic with a touch of high fashion. Personally I strive for it!! Take some lessons from the runway and make a style your own. Isn't fashion a blast!


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Summer Gingham Ideas

Dapper James - Mary Beth cotton sundress

According to fashion magazines, we will see lots of gingham over the summer. Indeed, the pattern has been popular since bombshell Bridget Bardot got married in 1959 wearing a pink gingham dress. It never truly disappeared. Gingham is a lightweight cotton fabric that comes in checked white and a bolder color.

Here are some stylish and comfortable ways to wear gingham:



From retailers: 1) Free People - swing dress; 2) Forever 21- jumper dress; 3) Madewell - bell sleeve shirt



4) Ellen Tracy - lace and gingham dress; 5) Draper James - cloister top; 6) ASOS - smock dress;


7) J Crew - cigarette pants; 8) Topshop - embroidered gingham shirt; 9) Madewell - 3 '' shorts;

and Dapper James - the garden party skirt (a floral and gingham pattern).

To celebrate the summer solstice😎 in the Western Hemisphere, THE SAVVY SHOPPER will feature not just gingham, but a trilogy of playful summer patterns to wear. Two others are just as fresh, crisp and full of fun. Can you guess what the other 2 are? Well stay tuned -- numeral 2 is our next blog!

A final (Getty) photo: The Duchess of Cambridge in shurbert gingham by British brand, Epinone.

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