Winter in Minnesota doesn’t quietly fade away. It lingers. It tests you. It asks for your resilience long after the holidays are gone and motivation feels harder to find. Yet, this is exactly when you being refined matters most. Style isn’t just for perfect weather.

A ribbed dress is the ultimate cold weather power piece. It delivers warmth without bulk and structure without stiffness. A deep chocolate tone just rich and yet grounding to wear out on a week night dinner date. Softer than black, more interesting than grey, it brings warmth back to a season that can sometimes feel endless.

I choose to style this dress with a sharp cowboy faux crocodile brown boot. The ombré browns in the boot create a sleek contrast to the matte brown of the dress. I grabbed my darker brown suede fur collared longer coat to be functional yet sophisticated. However, to keep the outfit on par with the dinner being a week night dinner out, I added a Roxanne Assoulin Super Size Happy Cord Necklace. It’s not a metal necklace making it more casual, but the charms you are able to switch out, can be gold, silver, whatever you choose.

Winter may still have weeks left to go here in Minnesota, but refinement isn’t about the season ending, its about deciding that no matter the temperature, you show up beautiful, strong, WARM, energized, and fully yourself.

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