GirlsGuideTo | {21 Summer Fashion Essentials #19}: Ankle Boots

We’re counting down until the official start of summer with one of our fave fashion bloggers, Gabrielle of Resort Rock Sugar. She’s made a list of the 21 fashion and beauty essentials no girl can do without this summer. Make sure to check back daily to kick off your summer looking fab! Take it away Gabrielle:

Counterintuitive, yet not, ankle boots look great with little summer dresses or denim cut-offs (#1 summer fashion essential). Plus, they are perfect for cooler nights. In fact, I'm envisioning you in them right now watching fireworks under the stars in cut-offs, a lightweight summer sweater (#4 summer fashion essential) and a sexy side braid (#17 summer fashion essential). You’re welcome for the 4th of July styling tip :)

*Written By: Gabrielle, a self-professed fashion junkie, and the blogger behind Resort Rock Sugar, leads a dual life. Quite paradoxically, she spends her days in a downtown highrise office building as a busy civil litigation attorney, but you wouldn't guess it if you peeked inside her closet. There you would find everything from fringe tank tops to short leather mini dresses, essentially nothing she can wear to her 9 to 5, err, 8 to 8 job. On the weekends, when she isn't discovering hot new designers whilst hitting up her favorite shopping haunts in LA, or taking in the brilliant fashion that is LA's scenester crowd, she is documenting it all via her blog, and probably from a prime seat at the Coffee Bean on the corner of Beverly and Robertson, because in LA all you need to do is step outside to get a little fashion inspiration.