Summer-to-Fall Dresses
Our Chief of Stores Mel is back on the styling floor after a summer hiatus, and she's rounding up the August-perfect dresses & jumpsuits that breeze straight into fall—without skipping a beat.
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0:00 [Music] 0:07 hi friends of every it's mel chief of 0:10 stores back in the fitting room with you 0:11 today after a little summer hiatus being 0:14 off of eetv but excited to show you some 0:17 new dresses and jumpsuits that we just 0:20 got in this past week so what i love 0:22 about dresses and jumpsuits is they're 0:24 such a fantastic transitional item so 0:27 right now i'm sure all of us are 0:28 thinking what are we buying and adding 0:30 to our closet that also is going to get 0:32 some longevity through the fall season i 0:34 think this dress by velvet would be a 0:36 perfect addition so this is called the 0:39 ray a dress i'll kind of stand back 0:41 longer dress again i'm about 5'7 for 0:43 reference this comes a few inches above 0:45 my ankle and i've got a little stacked 0:47 heel on with it 0:49 it's a nice lightweight cotton 0:51 fabrication 0:52 but it has a lot of volume on top that 0:55 is really fun and stunning so i i really 0:57 think with the right accessories i've 0:59 kind of dressed this up a bit i think 1:01 this could be a great event dress as 1:03 well 1:04 but also get a lot of use out of your 1:06 closet because you could throw it on 1:08 with a sandal and wear it very casually 1:09 too 1:10 so let's talk about shape first the 1:12 expression of fit on this is very 1:15 voluminous up top okay so i'm in a size 1:17 large which i normally take 1:19 and i really wanted to get that volume 1:22 play out of the top so you can see it's 1:24 gathered on the arm it's actually also 1:26 gathered at the waist i've just belted 1:29 it to even accentuate and create a waist 1:31 a little bit more for me because i'm 1:32 more of a rectangle and i carry those 1:34 curves kind of down in the lower half of 1:37 my body so belted it with this little 1:39 harriet isles croco belt just to define 1:42 the waist a little bit more and then 1:44 kind of you know let it kind of balloon 1:46 out off the top you see i keep putting 1:48 my hands in my pockets i love this dress 1:51 for the pockets again great little 1:53 casual feature 1:55 and then with the right accessories the 1:56 belt also the shoe i'm wearing this 1:59 little dolce vita pasco sandal i have 2:01 the black on but i really wanted to show 2:04 you this pretty pretty caramel color as 2:06 well i think you could go either way 2:08 with this dress 2:09 little croco across the slides stacked 2:12 heels super comfortable 2:14 easy to wear and then finally just a 2:16 little bit of jewelry right so i love a 2:19 little earring pack so i have on the 2:21 little drop earring and then you get two 2:23 more in the set this is the cleo pack 2:25 for 38 dollars you get all three pair 2:27 they're just fun little earrings and 2:30 then just layered on a little bracelet 2:32 stack this is the milani it's a coiled 2:35 gold with a little pop of kind of clear 2:38 beading with some black through it which 2:41 is a great finishing touch to this dress 2:43 so again velvet dress by raya 2:46 i'll get on the next one okay in a 2:48 jumpsuit by clea bella cleo bella is a 2:51 new brand for us and it's really a 2:53 personal favorite so i'm so excited to 2:54 introduce this jumpsuit to you um 2:57 because cleo bella has a bit of a boho 3:00 style vibe to it which is very much my 3:02 style 3:03 i am i don't have a lot of jumpsuits in 3:06 my closet i'll be honest and this one is 3:08 one i would love to add because most 3:10 jumpsuits are very fitted they're very 3:12 kind of utilitarian and style and this 3:15 is kind of a boho version of a jumpsuit 3:18 which i love so let me just talk about 3:20 the shape of it first of all so you've 3:22 got a lot of volume on the sleeve you 3:24 can see that eyelet detail there's 3:26 eyelet all throughout the jumpsuit 3:29 it's just lined through the middle so 3:31 it's very easy to wear 3:33 but beautiful detail volume on the 3:35 sleeve 3:36 belted here at the waist so you can kind 3:38 of create your own waistline where your 3:40 waist sits so then you get a little kind 3:42 of volume and play through the middle 3:44 yet it creates that nice waist fun 3:46 little pockets here for casual and then 3:49 you can see it's gathered down at the 3:51 bottom so 3:52 volume here the expression of fit is 3:54 definitely a lot of volume again 3:56 but a nice little gather at the bottom 3:59 let me hold this up in case this is hard 4:00 to see on video here's that eyelet 4:03 you can see the eyelet runs through 4:05 everything another great feature of cle 4:08 bella is it's mainly organic fabric so 4:11 this fabric is beautiful 4:13 also sustainable there's the gather at 4:16 the bottom 4:17 and then let me show you this little 4:18 belt little eyelet belt as well 4:21 so fun easy to wear 4:23 i have on this great little sandal this 4:26 is so fun going out date night maybe out 4:29 with girlfriends this is by vince camuto 4:32 it's the santa saddle excuse me santa 4:35 sandal 4:36 and look what they did for us on the 4:37 heel just added that little bit of a 4:40 flare on the heel which makes it so easy 4:43 and comfortable to wear 4:45 super little sexy straps on the top and 4:48 then accessories 4:49 super simple right because this is 4:51 eyelet head to toe you might not see it 4:52 on camera well but it is all kinds of um 4:56 stunning detail so little stack ring 4:58 this is the bella three little rings 5:00 here you buy in a stack together this is 5:02 the fae hoop super simple gold really 5:06 lightweight easy to wear 5:08 um but really really fun 5:11 okay final dress number three for you 5:14 if you want stunning and simple my 5:17 recommendation is this beige dress by 5:19 opt so this is a really nice fabrication 5:22 it's silky here it is definitely 5:25 something that would take you to a 5:26 dressy dinner or a dressy special 5:28 occasion it's fully lined underneath so 5:31 it's very very bra friendly easy to wear 5:34 kind of a baby doll style here it's got 5:36 two tiers after the bust line gathered 5:40 sleeve and then can you see that teal 5:42 probably the best thing about this dress 5:44 is the color it is the most rich 5:46 teal color 5:48 which makes it so stunning in this just 5:50 really simple silhouette 5:53 so what a great fall staple 5:55 i'm thinking out to dinner right now