How To Wear A Winter Dress In Spring

Tina, here.

It's time to put away your winter clothes. Or is it? Not if you're willing to wear them into spring with a few adjustments. As you've heard us say, or preach more like it, if you buy the right clothes, and know how to wear them, you'll have endless outfits and always feel like you're wearing new clothes. It's all in the mix.

So today, we're showing you how to wear one winter dress in spring 3 different ways and feel like you're wearing a brand new dress each time!

Enter the denim jacket.

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Fall and Winter: dark colors and accessories.

Spring: same dress with light colors and accessories.

The major contributor to this transformation is the white denim jacket. It brightens up the whole look and says, "Hi, Spring!"

I wear nude shoes all year long, but I make a purpose of wearing nude heels with colors traditionally considered fall colors in the springtime. Vault members, shop our fave white denim jacket, updated, in the April Style Vault, under Style Notes.

You know I love spring coats. Here I decided to dress up my fall dress with a silk ivory trench coat. You could use a cotton khaki trench coat as well. The idea is to introduce a spring fabric and color to layer over a fall-looking dress.

Accessories play a huge role in transitioning your wardrobe from one season to the next. A big, fun necklace like this one with spring flowers creates a spring feeling.

And finally, when the days are warm enough you don't need a covering, wear that fall dress proudly with just a pretty silk or cotton scarf.

The whole purpose of the scarf is to make the outfit announce it's a spring dress. So choose a scarf that has spring flowers on it, or at least a spring theme and pastel colors to play off the autumnal color of your dress. This works with a black dress, too, by the way.

You can wear your scarf around your neck like a necklace, and not even tie it. Sometimes I feel like scarves can look kinda frumpy unless you wear them very nonchalantly and casual. I switched to grey suede heels, which I also wear year-round, but in the spring I wear them almost exclusively with paler colors, whereas all fall and winter I've worn them with browns, jewel tones and black.

You can also wrap it over your shoulders for cover and a bit of warmth. Just don't tie it or you'll look too buttoned up and stiff for spring.

Vault Insiders, don't forget to shop the spring topper inside April's Style Vault. It has been a huge hit with members. We added a second one since it's been so popular (found under Style Notes). We updated our favorite white denim jacket, too. And added a pretty spring scarf.

We’re real personal stylists who shop like you do – we want the best look for the best price. But we’ve done all the legwork to hunt down the best style for you, and we put it in one easy-to-shop place, the Style Vault.

*Vault members, over 60 new items have been added to the April Style Vault this month!

Want us up close and personal? Get us in your closet now! We’re booking in-home spring wardrobe makeovers now. Check out our wardrobe packages from Tina Adams Consulting here.

Best,

Tina