Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style.

I'm your host, Shannon Ables.

And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a

cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to Monday everyone the last day of August and fall is right around the

corner and so much is waiting to be enjoyed whether whether it's with our work, our families, our school, and

yep, we got to talk about it, style and fashion.

September begins tomorrow and with it the fall season seems to unofficially begin in many ways.

Much of Oregon is already back to school.

Vacations are winding down and the long Labor Day weekend in the States is just a few days away

which for a few is the true marker of the fall season.

Tomorrow the Simply Luxurious Life's Fall shopping guide will be sent out to

subscribers and as I have been fine tuning my own fall capsule wardrobe this

season I wanted to focus on a staple that is often an unmentioned gem to all to always have on hand

have on hand the blazer.

Having found my dream blazer this season,

as I discussed in last week's outfit of the week post, be sure to visit that

for the shopping link to that particular blazer and a bunch of others, the more I began

to contemplate all of the options now available to me the more excited I became.

Such excitement is almost reminiscent of the first day of school I always look forward to as a young

girl when my mom would prior to that first day take me back to school

shopping and I would have to wait to wear my school clothes until school

actually began. It was pure torture, but oh I was so excited I had the outfits planned in my head and everything was ironed and laid out the morning before

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