By: Beverly Stinson

If you’re someone who likes to wear fashionable clothing, fall and winter might be challenging for you. Due to the cold weather and snow you might have to put away the clothes you prefer to wear and stick to sweats for 7 to 8 months (in Minnesota), and that’s really sad.

So I want to give tips on how to keep your style while in low temperatures. Of course this article isn’t going to be for everyone but I have tried to add diversity to the outfit inspos I have made.

Now, I personally like to wear more outgoing clothing, such as crop tops, and skirts, two items that are not fit for the cold. But even though they aren’t meant for cold weather it’s easy to rock them by adding warm accessories.

Things like:

• Tights or leggings
• Gloves (the longer the better)
• Jackets
• Cardigans
• Hats

These things will help keep you warm while also not ruining your outfit. But of course there are other things you could wear like coats and scarfs but if you’re like me, those aren’t options, since a lot of the time they ruin outfits.

Something that can also help is outfit boards; instead of just choosing random outfits and hoping for the best you can create boards and plan your outfits ahead. If making your own boards isn’t your thing then a good place to find some already made ones is on the app Pinterest.

I have made some boards to give inspiration:

These are just a handful of styles you can take inspiration from. All of them have warm aspects in them, but of course if your style isn’t included you can find good ones on Pinterest.

Some of these include coat-like clothing but of course they are fashionable and not one of those horrendous puffy plastic coats.

Now a lot of people can’t really afford to dress “fashionably” but you can find so many good things at cheap stores and websites.

There are of course REALLY cheap websites that you could shop from but shops like those tend to be very bad for the environment and very inhumane.

You can find good clothes like this from thrift stores (not the Salvation Army), Depop (things can get pretty expensive though), Japanese mercari, OR you can learn how to sew and crochet, which while it may take a bit, once you get the hang of it you can be making a shirt or a pair of pants + more, every week.

Even though there are these good options for shopping, I’d like to ask that you support small shops and businesses by buying their clothing and jewelry. Shops like these are on Etsy, Depop, Poshmark, and you can find some people’s websites from their social media accounts.

This is all I have for inspiration and tips. I hope this article helps you stay fashionable during this year’s fall and incoming nightmare of a Minnesota winter.

Stay cool!

xoxo,beverly