To Market, to Market, on a Fall Day

It happens every year.  Every.  Single.  Year.  Just as I have totally given up on having a lovely fall and resigned myself to the fact that it's been to hot, cold, wet, or dry, in other words the conditions just weren't right for pretty colors, and I settle in for a winter that will be that much bleaker without the glory of autumn to see us through, just when I'm in that place, ZANG!  All the colors appear!

And boy did the leaves ever show off this year.  Wow!  I went out to do photos on a Saturday afternoon and everything was still green or turning brown.  On Sunday it was more of the same, and then Monday morning, there it all was.  It was such a glorious display that I set all my work aside and spent half an hour or so just wandering in the woods admiring this most splendid of nature's displays.

It seemed only fitting then if fall was going dress up so nicely that, in the words of Emily Dickinson, "lest I should be old fashioned, I'll put a trinket on."  Or maybe more than just a trinket, actually a beautiful dress and this dress certainly is a beauty.

My long slow break-up with Selkie has hit another speed bump as I went to Free People the other day and saw this new style called the Market Dress in a print that I could not resist.  In my opinion, (and I apologize in advance for the nerd-speak Lord of the Rings metaphor) the Market Dress is to the Puff dress as Gandalf the White was to Saruman the Grey, which is to say that this is such a vast improvement and it's what it always should have been.

This particular print that stole my heart is called Jam Cake.  As far as I know, it is not yet released on Selkie's site and may never be as Selkie often comes out with exclusive styles for shops like Free People and Anthropologie.  It's also available in a print called Beth Plaid, which is certainly part of the Little Women collection that is being released on November 15th.  I loved both prints actually, but at $325 a pop, I could only afford one and that was kind of a stretch.  I figured I would get more around the year wear out of this lovely floral print than I would for green plaid.  Although the plaid of the the Beth print would make the perfect holiday dress, I can't see myself wearing it any other time except maybe St. Paddy's Day.

Once again, I can't say if all the fabric will be like this, because the Unicorn Defends Ritz that I bought last year from Free People is the softest Selkie I own, or at least it was until this dress came along, but this dress is as smooth as butter.  It is so luxe, it feels amazing!  The sleeves aren't too overwhelming and I love the little bow ties on them.  Plus, this dress has a tie at the waist for more definition and that is something that was definitely lacking in previous puffs, and it has pockets!!  Huzzah!  So many design wrongs have been righted in this dress that I really adore it.

Outfit info:  Selkie Market Dress in Jam Cake-$325 from Free People, 

Doll ring from Unlogical Poem