Must buys for autumn wardrobe?

[LadyThompson]

Summer is over, I reckon...so what are the essential colours and styles for autumn? I would quite like to buy a new coat or jacket, but am currently 32 weeks pregnant so would be buying it for post late September when I think I will still be a size 14...however, if I wait until then, all the good ones will have gone.

Any other suggestions for good (and in my case, necessarily flattering) buys for the up to Christmas period?

I would like a coat but no idea where to look.

M&S are way too short and Im not sure what the style/fashion will be this year.............

Crochet is in for Autumnn

I have no idea really, just eyeing up what dd has purchased this week

Little green military jacket from H&M
Crochet jumper from charity shop
Lace-up boots (distressed, brown, mid calf with mid size heel)

Oooh, I like those boots, Mary. Am going shopping in Oxford today. Sadly, it's dire for clothes shops.

I bagged a couple of capes from my mum at the weekend - pukka 1960's-70's jobs. These have wrap-scarf fastenings and a bit of draping rather than buttons as I know buttons up to my neck wil give me a vast chest like a shelf. Not camel, sadly, but then camel washes me out.

I can do jewel colours, so am looking forward to buying those. Can do black, too.

you are all joking about the capes aren't you?

So far I have bought:

Two tops from AW10 Marni Winter Edition

Knee-high flat brown suede boots and a cow-hide/skin bum bag (both fabulously lovely for every day wear) from a shop in Salzburg

A red and blue fitted check shirt in Super Dry

I would NEVER wear a cape. I am NOT a nanny on Nanny 911

Oh, I love capes. But then I always fancied myself as a girl about town in the swnging 60's - in the autumn at any rate. But there was are. Come next summer I'll be fancying myself as a flower child again.

I've done poncho's to death, lovely fine knit ones for winter, and vast pashmina's swung over a shoulder and around, I think a cape is the same kind of thing....

I quite fancy a camel cape and am ttc so would be v bump-friendly.

However purchases this season include Gap "relaxed tuxedo" trousers:
bit.ly/9MhdzR
(yes, that is Gap's brand spanking new UK online shopping site - atbloodylast)
Topshop camel shrug cardi:
bit.ly/d7zz1r
and, best of all, purchased just last night, Oasis's chocolate brown aviator jacket:
bit.ly/9rV0gh
a seriously fabulous garment

Still on the hit-list are a pair of flat, knee-high black boots (a nightmare for me and my 'generous' calves) from Duo and some cropped black trousers - either from Boden or Gap, depending on fit.

Am quite excited at the prospect of dressing like a grown-up for a season.

Do we like this one??

camel cape

I have bought this stunning little number from TKmaxx for a bargain price of £49.99. Its really good quality and v flattering. Just hae to wait till DEC to wear it as I am currently 24wks pregnant and the coat is a size small.

coat

Apart from this am on the lookout for some nice ankle boots and maybe another coat but knee length as I am quite tall. I loved this one last year in Karen Millen but no longer available. If anyone has seem anyhing similar please let me know!!

karen millen coat from last year.

Why is it so difficult to find a knee length coat? I am 5ft 7 so hardly a giant.

Yes Mary, I do like it - double breasting not going to suit me, but on someone less norked, a good look.

Partyhats, didn't realise TKMaxx have a website. Not sure if this is good or bad...

Am very at all you lot who will pop out your babies and pop on your pre-pregnacy clobber. There wasn't any discernable difference after my three came out. Not that much now either, to be honest.

partyhats that Gharani Strok coat is a stunner, worth waiting for!

spirit I have norks and wore a similar one last year from topshop which unbelievably looked great. Have ordered, will let you know if I look like a ship in full sail....

Ooh! I wanted knee-highs but thought only ankle boots acceptable this season. However feel 'tis acceptable if Bonsoir is wearing. Paris, here we come!

DO NOT get the cape thing. Large shapeless jumpers with no sleeves, anyone?

There are knee-high boots all the way up Bond Street - we went shopping there on Wednesday!

This is the closest I can find to the capes that I've just bagged, except mine don't have the sleeves. Probaby not the 'on trend' shape then.

The coat is lovely Partyhats-well done.Tk Maxx is my favourite shop and i always feel virtuous buying really good quality coats there - but then i spoil the illusion and end up buying three of them.[because i can't decide which one would be most useful and i end up buying - one in every style!]

Good! I LOVE knee-highs but didn't want to spend £££ and then feel hopelessly unfashionable.

party - are you a size 12? If so look here

Sweetheart - I actually have that coat already! Its from about 4 years ago and it is very similar to the one I missed out on buying last year but it is a style, cut and length that suits me so I shall keep my eyes peeled on ebay for a size 10 in the grey. Thanks anyway!!

LTEC where is this navy military coat of which you speak?