It’s now a peculiar point on the dress calendar: the interim of anticipation.

The spring/summer 2013 collections have been presented.

We eagerly begin to look forward.

Yet we are still anchored in winter attire.

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Although of seasons past,

Christian Dior Fall Couture Collection 2012, by Raf Simons

offered a possible dress solution to the recurrent circumstance:

though the weather outside may be frightful:

pair-  spring blooms (tops) 

with-  winter stems (dark trousers)

to-  bridge the seasonal divide (done!)

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Christian Dior

by Raf Simons

Fall Couture Collection,  2012

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