First off, I just wanted to thank everyone for their nice comments and input regarding my ‘retail-me-not’ post from last week. You all made me smile. Thanks for joining in the discussion.

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Well after a rainy rainy weekend here in San Francisco, the sun is out and shining with a crisp chill in the air and it finally feels like true fall. I am no longer overheating in all of my fall clothes.

My adorable blonde friend and coworker Rachel showed up to work yesterday in pretty much the most perfect on-trend Fall in SF outfit. It also serves as inspiration to us all on how to wear the season’s key trend leopard-print well. I love her neutral grey-scale leopard print sweater dress (a find at a consignment store) that she wore belted with bare legs and flat sandals.  And that beautiful head of long blonde effortlessly wavy hair (I lust after it). She took the leopard-print look to an easy and effortless place. She’s from the East Coast originally but she does California cool so well, doesn’t she?  I can’t get enough, I love her. She even has her own little blog you can check out here.

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p.s. ASOS just did a round-up of the leopard-print trend and I like their choices.  How great is Rachel Bilson in that long Roberto Cavalli dress? There are even some halloween costume ideas in there….