Spotted at Fashion Week: shirts tied around the waist

Fall is by far my favorite season but it does pose a challenge when temperatures vary a lot. The weather can change at the drop of a hat or whether you are in sun or shade, or if that chilly autumn wind is blowing. In Portland especially right now, this has been challenging: cardigan on, cardigan off; wearing boots in the morning only to switch to sandals in the afternoon.

Leandra over at Man Repeller somehow managed to make having a shirt or cardigan tied around your waist look great. I have always found this a rather bulky, and quite dorky, thing to do. At NY fashion week, she wore it with the same dress on two different occasions and was able to channel Marc Jacobs for Perry Ellis circa 1993 a little bit, with the plaid one. And then go a bit more 80s with the denim shirt.

Marc Jacobs for Perry Ellis (one of my favorite collections of all time, by the way) :

And then both at London fashion week and in Paris this past week, I saw quite a few more doing this. Either with a skirt that gave the look of a shirt tied around:

Or just straight up in general paired with a short skirt, so the shirt is longer than the skirt.

Or to add a pop of color: