Even though summer is coming to an end and fall is around the corner, you can still easily transition your summer cottage dress, in all its puff-sleeves and smocked bodice glory, for fall by adding a pair of knee-high boots, a chunky knit sweater, and tights underneath just in time for leaf-peeping season
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