GirlsGuideTo | Fall Into Fashion: Leather Details

Ok, you've already heard all about leather. Ok, obviously this is related. But different enough to bear mentioning again. One way to avoid a big leather splurge is to find pieces that contain some leather details, or a combination of leather and some other fabric. This means jackets with leather sleeves, or cropped trousers with leather details down the sides, or a fitted dress with contrast leather inserts.

{This peplum top combines the best of both trends!}

No need to stick with black on black. The best leather combinations are two-toned or leather with denim. In fact, leather with denim is huge this season.

And if you can't afford the actual leather detail, or are anti-leather, try faux leather. Since leather details can be small, no one will be able to notice its not real leather.

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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.