Wearing a dress when the weather turns cold is not only possible, but highly encouraged! Plus it’s the perfect canvas for layering on the cool accessories.

I don’t know about you, but wearing a dress in the fall is kinda hot – not only because it’s slightly unexpected, but you get to show off a little leg, too. Although they’ll probably be covered by tights (patterned is a plus), this definitely breaks up the monotony of wearing pants, jeans, and leggings all the time.

Whether you choose a knit, or something that you’d normally wear in the summer, keeping those dresses in rotation means less money spent on new clothes, and getting more wear out of the great pieces you already have. With accessories like scarves, tights, boots, coats, and more, you can use much of what you already own for several stylish concepts that also happen to be very wearable and down to earth.

Dresses with Ponchos

Photo: Megan’s Moda

Poncho sweaters and capes are popular for fall, and we can’t seem to get enough of these! They’re like the perfect layer – great over long sleeves, other sweaters, jeans, leggings, and as you can see from the photo, dresses. Throw your poncho over a dress and style it a few different ways.

Belting the waist, layering a long necklace, or several necklaces, and pairing with a felted hat are all great styling options. Fortunately, things like belts and other small accessories can be picked up from a thrift store to make this outfit more sustainable. Hell, you can even make your own no-sew poncho dress topper from an old (but good looking) blanket. Check out the nifty tutorial here.

Dresses with Socks

Photo: Gurl

The socks with dresses look is almost always in for fall. Whether you remember it from “Clueless”, your time at private school, or some other encounter, the whole knee and thigh-high sock look is trending, especially when paired with autumn’s “it” pattern, plaid.

Mixing the two is totally your choice (perhaps you prefer the boho look pictured above), but it would be a shame not to try the high sock trend at least once, especially with a dress.

Choose something that hits above the knee, similar to the photo, and pair with either tall boots, booties, or some other shoe, like a Mary Jane style heel. Another option for wearing tall socks if it’s really cold out, is to put on tights first, and then layer your socks and shoes over top.

Dresses with OTK Boots

Photo: Style Pantry

Booties, knee-high, and over-the-knee boots, often abbreviated “OTK,” are all great types of warm footwear to pair with your fall dresses. The OTK boots, however, is a trend that you don’t see worn around town very often, which is why I’m encouraging you to try it.

Not only does it look cool, modern, and sexy, but it’s also practical for keeping your legs warm when wearing a dress during the chilly months of autumn. Take a queue from the blogger pictured above in her gorgeous OTK boots, and mod style long sleeve dress. This is a great outfit to pair with a tailored trench coat, tights, and a scarf.

Dresses with Layers

Photo: Aelida

Tights, scarves, coats, hats, sweaters, belts, leggings, socks, and accessories are just a handful of items you can use to create the perfect layered fall look with your favorite dress. From pattern mixing to contrasting textures, layers are all about creating depth, interest, and warmth from your favorite closet staples.

If you’re adventurous, like the woman pictured in our photo, then pairing herringbone with paisley won’t phase you in the least. However, if you like to keep things less quirky and a little more classic, then picture that same herringbone coat with a mix of layers that are black, white, tan, and brown, as opposed to patterned and multi-colored.

Layering neutrals, especially in a monochromatic scheme, is one of the simplest and classiest ways to roll in the winter. With all of these extra pieces, you won’t realize it’s cold out – even in your dress.

Dresses with Long Sleeves

Photo: Glam Asia

Yes, ya’ll, long sleeves under dresses can and should look good. Whether you want to go ’90s throwback style by pairing a long sleeve top with a spaghetti strap slip dress, or a little more mod squad, like the model, this is not only a wearable tip, but practical, too.

One way to make this look even more special is by choosing a simple, black sleeveless dress and wearing it over a dressier long sleeve blouse. Extra points if there’s something special about the sleeve, be it lace, chiffon, or an interesting pattern.

If you’re going the plain tee route, then opt for something with a bit of stretch to hold its shape all day. Wearing this to work? Then throw your sleeveless dress over a collared button down shirt for a professional vibe. Don’t forget your tights, coats, and closed-toe heels or boots to complete the look.

As you can see, wearing a dress in the fall doesn’t have to be intimidating or difficult. With a handful of accessories and a little imagination, you can make just about any dress work for whatever season you’re in.

What’s your favorite way to wear a dress when the temps start to dip? Share your tips with us on the EcoSalon Facebook page!

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Forget expensive designer clothing. Your next gown could be constructed out of upcycled food waste.

We probably don’t have to tell you that an exorbitant amount of food is wasted every year, but to drive home our point, get a load of this depressing statistic: “The United Nations Environment Programme estimates that 1.3 billion tons of food go to waste each year,” TakePart reports. And all that food waste creates “an annual global carbon footprint of 3.3 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalents.”

Okay, so we know food waste is a problem and we need to discover different ways to use this food. And although a lot of it can be eaten and donated, there’s still some that can’t be consumed because it’s not edible. So, that’s why using food waste to make clothing is so awesome—even if it seems incredibly strange.

Second generation food waste—things like orange peels, coconut husks, and salmon skin—can be transformed into synthetic fibers and then used for constructing fashionable duds.

So, which companies are using these food-based materials? Let us introduce you to a few of them.

1. Nau

This Portland, Oregon-based sustainable clothing company uses alternative materials, such as 37.5 Technology insulation, to insulate its jackets. The insulation—it’s made from coconuts—provides wicking, and temperature and odor control.

2. Tidal Vision

Fish waste is still a problem for sustainable fisheries. That’s why Craig Kasberg, a former commercial fisher, decided to try and upcycle aquatic leather and chitin/chitosan. After a lot of trial and error, Zach Wilkinson and Kasberg successfully launched Tidal Vision’s line of sustainable wear, which includes vegetable-based tanning products, salmon-leather wallets, and belts.

“Additionally, Tidal Vision developed a way to transform crab shells into chitosan textile fiber,” TakePart adds.

3. Ecoalf

This company collects leftover coffee grounds to make shoes. Weird, but once the process is explained, it makes sense… kind of:

“Since 2009, Ecoalf has been collecting leftover coffee grounds, primarily from a Taiwan-based restaurant chain,” explains TakePart.

“The still-humid compounds are taken to a recycling plant to dry and have 11 percent of their oils extracted to maintain a microporousness that allows for binding with other materials. The result is a nano-powder that’s mixed with either recycled polyester or nylon polymers to create yarn.”

4. Qmilk

Anke Domaske discovered a zero-waste way to make her company’s unique, milk fiber. Domaske created a process, using 100 percent natural ingredients with casein, a raw milk product.

“It only requires a maximum of two liters of water per kilogram of fiber and a maximum processing time of five minutes,” Domaske says.

Once perfecting the process, Domaske launched Qmilk in 2011. Qmilk is a biodegradable yarn that can be used in bedding, carpets, paper, and medical textiles.

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When the sun is shining and the flowers are blooming, the last thing you want is an outfit that falls flat, which is why we’ve provided you with several wardrobe ideas that will help you revamp your closet just in time for spring. Take a peek below and get inspired!

1. Clean Sweep

A good rule of thumb is to only keep the clothes, shoes, and accessories that you’ve actually worn in recent months – this will help you know what you still need to round out the perfect spring wardrobe. However, when warm weather clothes have been tucked away for two seasons, then you may feel like you could be getting rid of something good. So, rather than fret over what to keep and what to toss, check out a few of our helpful tips below.

• Ditch the outdated. Banish the seriously old looking duds and accessories that aren’t considered currently trendy or timeless – like blazers with shoulder pads and neon everything.
• You’re waiting for the item to fit, because right now it’s too small, or you’re not tall enough, or it would look great if (insert stipulation here). Don’t hang on to things that aren’t quite right or are ill fitting, unless you can convert it.
• You haven’t put it on in the last two or three spring seasons, or you always try it on but never actually wear it out of the house. This is probably a good sign that it can go.
• The clothing, shoes, handbags, or whatever are completely worn out – it’s too faded, pilled, overly scuffed, or has holes, and not in the right places, then it’s time to parts ways.

2. Update Staples

After getting rid of the pieces that you no longer need, you may feel a little panicked about the state of your (barely there) closet, but never fear, because now you can really assess what you have to work with. If there are some spring essentials that you don’t own, then it may be a good idea to go ahead and buy the items to round out your current wardrobe before adding the fun stuff. Below are some common spring staples – just try to stick with neutrals when creating a solid base.

• Great fitting dresses – sun, shirt, or maxi dresses
• Breezy tops – button downs, tanks, and tees
• Bottoms – skinny jeans, cropped pants, and shorts
• Skirts – skater, A-line, and maxi
• Outerwear – cardigans, a blazer, trench or rain coat
• Shoes – ballet flats, wedges, heels, and sandals
• Accessories – cross-body bag, backpack purse, sun hat, sunglasses

3. Repurpose Pieces

Sometimes you can get extra mileage out of items you may have normally worn during fall or winter, or out of items that you can actually wear multiple ways. We have a few ideas listed below on how to accomplish this.

• Wear a lightweight scarf around your neck instead of a necklace or as a chic pool side headband.
• Refashion oversized button downs, like denim, into belted shirt dresses and pair with flats or wedges.
• Ankle boots can stick around even during spring. Wear them with denim shorts, dresses, and rompers.
• Accessories and some clothing items are usually safe to keep around, especially when the colors and fabric weights are suitable for warmer months – suede skirts, flats, handbags, jewelry, cardigans, long sleeve dresses, and belts are generally good to go for springtime.

4. Converted Clothing

With the internet at our fingertips, it’s easier than ever to find some really cool wardrobe ideas in the form of clothing hacks. You can totally transform or personalize a lot of the items you already have in your closet, with some not even requiring any sewing skills. A few of our favorite suggestions are outlined below.

• Update old shoes. Scuffed heels can be glitterfied, pumps can be given new life with some strategically placed jewels, and other kicks, like flats or canvas shoes can see better days when recovered in a fresh material like a floral print or lace. Clipping on cute embellishments like a flower or bow can go a long way, too.
• Turn jeans that are too short or outdated into cute cut off shorts. Take said jeans, or a pair of shorts you already own and give the back pockets some interest by adhering fabric to the pockets, perhaps from an old dress you’re about to toss out.
• Dress up plain Jane bottoms by adding lace to the hem line of a mini skirt, pair of shorts, or a romper. Bedazzle your cuffed crops with fun embellishments and some heavy duty fabric glue.
• Create cute tops out of old t-shirts. Tanks, crop tops, and racerback tees can be created with a pair of scissors, a little imagination, and a tutorial or two.

5. Sizzling Accessories

More than just the icing, good accessories are akin to the binder in a delicious cupcake recipe – in addition to providing pizazz, they also have the power to bring and keep your outfits together. We’ve rounded up a few ways on how to how to best utilize your accessories for spring and they’re listed below.

• Floral prints are in for spring, so why not use accessories as the vessel. Floral faced watches, floral print bags, heels, and scarves are all great ways to rock the trend.
• Mix vibrant hues with a neutral outfit. All white looks gorgeous paired with pops of color, like pink sandals and a lemony yellow handbag and a piece of statement jewelry that ties it all together.
• Don’t skimp on the polish – think of your fingers and toes as a mandatory and easy to update accessory. Choose fun colors and patterns to really make your mani and pedi pop!

We hope you’ve enjoyed our wardrobe ideas on how to revamp your closet for spring. Whether you use what you have, convert a few thrifted pieces, or splurge on some new staple items, by applying our suggestions you’ll have a closet full of your favorite things. Let us know what you think on the EcoSalon Facebook page!

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As a new year’s resolution, we would all love to update our wardrobe. We would also love to make less waste and support eco-friendly businesses. For designers, the reality of creating a responsibly made collection and also make a living from it is much tougher. It’s hard enough to make it in the fashion industry. Making the choice to produce upcycled fashion adds additional challenges that mainstream labels don’t have to worry about.

Americans are filling landfills with 10.5 million tons of discarded clothing a year. There is ample opportunity for this waste to be remade into something useful. However, designers of sustainable fashion are mostly independent labels producing small runs; making it difficult for corporate retailers to work with. There is also a resistance from fashion fans to purchase clothing made from trash.

So what can designers do to compete with upcycled fashion?

1. Find consistent sources for your materials.

Many designers create their collections from what they can find. Not knowing what your next collection will be made of or how to design it takes extra time and hampers your own marketing plans. Decide on a consistent product line and how you will supply it. Oregon Company Looptworks creates its collection from neoprene and excess materials from wetsuit manufacturing. It knows where its supplies are coming from and can plan for the fabric use and design before each season.

2. Emphasize uniqueness.

Large retailers may shun an indie designer for not filling a huge order with mass market products. For a small boutique or designer, this can be your advantage. You can market to your customers that they are getting a one-of-a-kind creation. Looptworks also makes it a point of never producing more than 500 of any product. The company hand-numbers each piece to identify it as a limited edition item.

3. Have a defined aesthetic.

The Bella Sisters in Portland specialize in upcycled jackets and outerwear. They buy pieces in all colors, textures and sizes. However, their customers love their signature embellishments of peacock embroidery and romantic appliques. They also add flattering knit cuffs and peplums to create a consistent silhouette. They may have started with pre-made garments as a base, but the final product is clearly a work of their design. Re-making a recycled item as your own is a great way to eliminate the “second hand” stigma of recycled clothing.

4. Develop a service.

You don’t just have to sell products to get into the upcycled fashion game. Former brides have been finding ways to re-fashion their wedding dresses for hundreds of years. You can build a responsibly made fashion business helping clients renew pieces from their wardrobe.

Brooklyn designer Shannon South of ReMADE USA offers a service to remake your old leather jacket into a chic bag. The benefits of offering a service as an alternative to manufacturing are that you don’t have to invest funds and space to obtain materials beforehand. You only work on confirmed (and paid) orders. There is a large market for this beyond weddings. There is clothing that is no longer in style or doesn’t fit. There are always sentimental pieces customers own where the materials or heirloom value cannot be duplicated.

5. Have a story.

Shoppers and designers alike don’t choose sustainable fashion just to be cool. They pursue it because they find it meaningful. As a designer, be ready to explain what inspired your collection. Let your customers know where your materials come from.  When planning your marketing, ask yourself why you chose this path?

Toronto boutique owner Nathalie Roze specializes in warm weather accessories made from recycled sweaters. She also collects donated knitwear at craft shows to refashion into stylish winter hats and gloves to give to communities in need. Detroit based Rebel Nell is a jewelry company that trains and employs underserved women in shelters to make jewelry from discarded graffiti concrete.

People pay a premium for farm-to-table dining. With upcycled fashion, they pay a premium over mass market items. Customers are willing to spend more because they are buying the story behind label as much as they are buying the end product itself. If you are a designer with a great story, make sure you tell it well!

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We all know by now that Brooklyn is the center of the universe, and this past weekend, it was the headquarters for ethical fashion.

I arrived at Industry City, a massive warehouse in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, not knowing quite what to expect. I hadn’t heard of any of the designers on the roster, and I was eager to see their offerings.

The first thing I noticed was that this wasn’t like any fashion show I’d attended before – it was the most beautifully diverse scene I’ve ever encountered in the fashion world. Instead of a sea of white people and Anna Wintour clones, multiple races and ethnicities were on the scene and running the show. I liked the vibe immediately. There was a rawness and authenticity you rarely see, even though the event was well-produced and sponsored by the likes of Uber.

After a few cute, quick runway offerings from a dog(!) designer and a children’s clothing line, wearable, sustainable, ethical fashion began to float down the runway. I noted and approved of the fact that it wasn’t just the crowd that was amazingly diverse – the runway was too. The best known designers still can’t get it together around the issue of race – every year they have their token black, brown or Asian face, so they can say they did that. Not here, at Fashion Week Brooklyn – the gorgeous models streaming down the runway came in every possible beautiful hue as they showed us the spring and summer 2015 lines. (Hello, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week – are you paying attention?)

I am not going to lie to you and pretend I have any journalistic integrity when it comes to fashion – I write about the looks that I feel like I’d want to wear, full stop. The first designer I fell for was Born Again Fashion by Bridgett Artise. She offered gorgeous sustainable looks with a Caribbean flair – all using upcycled vintage materials. My fave was a brightly colored afghan blanket turned into a set of fringed short shorts and a sexy crop top. Taking the best of vintage and turning it into wearable, ethical fashion isn’t a simple task, but Bridgett makes it look easy.

Designer – Born Again Fashion by Bridgett Artise

Next on my most adored list was L-L-B by Lisbeth Lovbak from Norway, offering more upcycled designs with a twist — most of these looks can be worn in multiple ways — like a wearable version of a Swedish Army Knife. This summer collection played on the idea construction/deconstruction, offering a lot of pretty denim vests in different configurations. This was ethical fashion at its cutest.

Finally, I loved the quirky, zero-waste designs from Iliana Quander from her Amparo 3 collection. The Bob Marley dress (top) looked light, airy, whimsical and delicious.

Designer- High School of Fashion Industries

Stefanie Iris Weiss is the author of “Eco-Sex: Go Green Between the Sheets and Make Your Love Life Sustainable”  (Ten Speed Press/Crown Publishing, 2010) and eight other books. Stefanie keeps her carbon footprint small in New York City, where she writes about sustainability, sexuality, reproductive rights, dating and relationships, politics, fashion, beauty, and more for many publications. Follow Stefanie @ecosexuality.

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Jewelry designer, Susan Domelsmith of Dirty Librarian Chains crafts handmade jewelry and elegant accessories out of second market materials from past jewelry factories on the eastern seaboard. Materials dating back to as early as the sixties have found new ways to shine through in Susan’s collections. EcoSalon caught up with Susan to discover more about her craft, upcycling process and made in NYC appeal.

Juliette Donatelli: Your line is produced in New York City?

Susan Domelsmith: Yes, by me.

JD: Do you do all the labor yourself?

SD: Yeah pretty much. I have a few assistants that come in and I teach them as well. It’s like continuing the manufacturing process and trying to keep it here.

But I also work with materials that were primarily made in the United States. I shop at factories that have shut down in Providence Rhode Island, and components from the sixties to the eighties. Second market

JD: Are all of those factories closed down now?

SD: A lot of the production has moved overseas since primarily the mass market stuff is made in China now. But I feel like there is a resurgence where people are starting to care more where their products are made and who makes them. So I feel like there are some new ones that are opening back up.

JD: When bring your handmade jewelry to a buyer or the larger public, and they find out it is made in NYC, is that an appeal to them?

SD: Yes definitely. I do a lot of markets where I am selling straight to the customer and they definitely love meeting the maker and knowing there is a nice person who made the jewelry, infusing it with good energy, rather than someone being forced into this kind of way to make a living. Which you know, some people still have to do in other parts of the world.

If they can identify with the way of life of the maker then I think that’s nice for the customer.

JD: Are more jewelers using reclaimed materials?

SD: Yes. When I first started — I’ve had my line for almost ten years — so when I first started I saw that was not really something people were doing. But it has definitely become more of a common way of designing and producing jewelry. I am really happy a lot more people are taking the more environmentally conscious route, because then it takes all the chemicals that are involved in plating and the mining of the materials as well — it takes that out of the equation, and it is still nice things that are beautiful to wear. So I am happy that that’s becoming more of a movement.

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 Check out America’s hottest upcycled fashion designers making wonders from waste!

Upcycling means taking waste materials from factories with leftover scraps or from consumers who no longer want their used goods, and creating something new, functional and incredibly chic with it. As one of the largest producers of waste in the world, the U.S. needs designers with clever ideas for how to give new life to everything that would otherwise end up in our ever-expanding landfills. Luckily, we’ve got some pretty amazing ones to be proud of. Five are highlighted below. Find your next treasure, sustainably and creatively made from someone else’s trash!

1. Armour sans Anguish
Oakland, CA based Armour sans Anguish is a collection of whimsical and romantic dresses, tunics, and bridal wear made entirely from found and recycled materials. Designer Tawny Holt uses vintage tablecloths, bedsheets, nighties and prom dresses to piece together one-of-a-kind garments that evoke wood nymphs, Greek goddesses and flower children. The Asa collection offers dreamy everyday dresses, bridal gowns, flower girl dresses and thematic bridesmaid dresses perfect for your summer or early autumn woodland wedding.

2. Looptworks
Founded by Scott Hamlin and Gary Peck, Pacific Northwestern Looptworks is the answer to a better solution for the billions of pounds of waste produced by large name brand apparel and sportswear companies. The result is a company that sources top quality, leftover materials like leather and performance textiles from premium producers, creates functional and aesthetically pleasing designs, and pays a fair wage for the production of these re-fashioned items. To top it off, Looptworks offers a lifetime guarantee for each product, as the company believes that the phone and laptop cases, iPad sleeves and garments it offers should be made well and made to last.

3. Piece x Piece
The team at Piece by Piece collects sample fabric swatches at the end of each production season and crafts them into gorgeous, wearable attire. The label has turned the concept of patchwork designs from hobo hippie-wear to sophisticated, chic and edgy everyday garments that help keep thousands of textiles from the landfill. Since the fabric chosen for each garment is selected from an ever-changing stock of luxury discards, each piece is naturally unique and limited edition, but also designed to be timeless. As the team states “Our mission is to create beauty from this waste, and progress toward a new philosophy about what waste really means and how we address it. We hope you enjoy our work as much as we do.”

4. ReMade USA
Shannon South, the genius behind ReMade USA, has created a fantastic service where customers can send their vintage leather jackets into her studio to be artfully crafted in to incredibly fashionable, high quality and one-of-a-kind bags, purses and clutches. These completely personalized creations give new life to garments that would otherwise sit in closets or end up in the trash. Each jacket is carefully deconstructed and reconstructed according to the style preferences of its owner, resulting in an accessory that is unique and looks like new. Make sure to also check out Shannon’s amazing collection of handbags made from remnant luxury leather from the furniture industry!

5. ReUse Jeans

So, almost everyone in the U.S. wears jeans, which are in fact part of our national style definition. Unfortunately, the denim industry is extremely toxic, wasteful and exploitative. That’s why ReUse Jeans has come out with an awesome denim collection that is made almost entirely out of recycled fabric. These fashion forward and affordable jeans are made from denim with 80 percent recycled content obtained from factories in China, helping to clean up the waste of the apparel production hub. Choose from skinny styles, bootcut, pastel colors, bright shades and everything in between!

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