Steal Your Daughter’s Style

by Laura Bennett

This season, it’s unfair that teens and twenty-somethings hog all the best trends for themselves. How dare budding fashionistas readily exclude real women from rocking trends? Wrest back some control and recover that high fashion hijack. Here are four pivitol Fall fashion trends and suggestions on how to make it more age appropriate for real women. To see how real women made these trends work for them, watch Laura Bennett on the Today Show on October 27th.

	1. Over the knee boots These are being shown on every runway from here to Moscow, but usually with short skirts or even shorts. An older woman can totally rock the look, but she needs to mind the gap. When worn with a garment that comes down to the top of the boot, you get a sleek look that’s age appropriate.
	2. Big shoulder pads On the runway girls they look great because you can tell they were toddlers the last time the trend came around. In order to avoid looking like you’ve been wearing that jacket since 1982 it’s important to mix the look with very modern accessories; like a platform shoe, and no big hair.
	3. Leather Leather is the new black. It’s everywhere this season, but a studded motor cycle jacket is not the way to go if you have a few miles under your belt. Instead try a classic, more traditional silhouette done in leather instead of fabric, like a simple sheath dress in chocolate brown or deep plum.
	4. Neon These acid colors are all over the runway, but be careful not to look like you’re wearing a road safety gear. Just a dab will do you, and instead of mixing these colors with black get a more updated look by mixing them with a different neutral. Try brown or navy blue.