First Week of October Outfits

Last week was the hottest first week of October that I can remember. It has been in the mid 80s almost every day and people around here were actually buying summer clothes! The only sight of merino in a store made me sweat. I tell you, if the temperatures stay like this we have big sales of Fall merchandise ahead of us!
Anyway, I tried to make the best of it and wear clothes that didn't get too much wear in the summer. I hope you enjoy the outfit roundup!

Monday. I really liked this outfit, I think it is one of my best. I am wearing the JCrew striped flower tee from the spring (I bought this one on a whim when it got super marked down in store and it turned out to be one of my favorite tees ever), my J Brand Houlihan skinny cargos in sahara, my Theory double-breasted blazer and my red Kikis (the red in the tee perfectly matches the Kikis):





Of course it got too hot during the day to wear the blazer and I had to take if off:




Tuesday. Another hot day. I wanted to wear a dress but at this point I am tired of my summer ones, so I took out a Calypso suede dress that doesn't get much wear because there isn't a season for it (too hot in the summer to wear a suede dress and the style doesn't lend itself to be layered). Well, I should wear it more often apparently because three people stopped me in the street to ask me who made it. It is true that the suede looks luxurious and it was a very expensive dress but I got it for a song at the outlet (like $70). The problem with suede is that you don't want to sweat in it because it is expensive to dry-clean. I also broke my rule of no open-toe shoes after Labor day and wore Calypso snakeskin sandals so it was a 100% Calypso outfit:




Thursday. I am blanking on what I did or wore on Wednesday, probably nothing to talk about. BUT I remember what I did and wore on Thursday because I had lunch with a girlfriend at Café Boulud, which is a very upscale restaurant on the Upper East Side with one of the nicest terraces in town. Thursday was the breeziest day of the week, so I took advantage of the not too sticky weather to break out my H&M leather pants. If you haven't read my post about these pants the bottom line is that they are the best leather pants around but I don't recommend them to tall girls as they are VERY cropped (I ended up exchanging the size 6 for a size 4 and they fit much better, the 6 was definitely too loose on me). I dressed them up a bit with the JCrew short-sleeve silk tee from last year but I wore sneakers (black leather Converse). I felt very cool in this outfit:




Everything we ate was delicious but the mini-madeleines served warm out of the oven with coffee were out of this world (and I am not even much of a dessert person). I was so impressed that I went out of my way and found the recipe here (what did we do before the Internet?) and baked them on Sunday since my daughter was starting French afternoon class yesterday and she was supposed to bring a French "gouter" for the entire class. They were quite delicious!

Friday. My plans for Friday (ironing and cleaning the house) got shook up by an email sent by Tory Burch that announced the start of their Family and Friends sale. I wasn't expecting the sale to start this early (usually it's over Columbus Day weekend) but I had one thing on my wishlist that I was planning to try during the sale so I went to the store to see if they had it. Unfortunately it didn't work (as in I didn't like it on me and I crossed it from my wishlist) but the Revas were included in the promo so I got a pair of classic black. I practically live in my Revas and as you know I have quite a few but I hadn't bought a pair of black since my first one bit the dust a year and a half ago and I really missed them so I know it's money well spent. I went with the black/silver because I think that they will pair better with this year biker trend and also because my navy suede and camo ones have a gold medallion.
Since I was going to the Tory store I wanted to wear something Tory so I paired my Alexa cropped twill pants with an old JCrew silk shirt that is a bit Tory Burch-esque with its little golden buttons. In reality I like this shirt better in theory than IRL, it drives me crazy because it does not want to stay tucked in AND it gets underarm sweat marks very easily (now I remember why I don't wear it that often).
Anyway, it is a good match for these pants and it looks cute for the five minutes it stays tucked in:





Most of the times it looks more like this:


We did something a bit special on Saturday, I will come back with a dedicated post.

How do you cope with the "Fall heat wave" (if you live around here)? Which one of my outfits do you like the best?