Ladies, it's time to FROCK UP!

I don't really understand people who say spring is their favourite season. Maybe in some cities spring actually exists as a season, but that doesn't seem to be the case in Melbourne. Spring in Melbourne is more like rapidly flipping through before and after shots of a fad diet. Here's what winter looked like, here's what summer has in store. Having already lived through winter, I am well aware of what it looked like and quite frankly no longer give a fuck. Bring on the sunshine and heat stroke baby!

I feel like a kid in a candy store on the 'summer preview' days of Melbourne's spring. Or perhaps a lolly shop, since I'm in Australia and all. Today is one of those beautiful, warm, sunny days that leaves me with no desire to be indoors. And you know what the best part about warm weather is? The frocks!

Joni's Top Ten Style Tips #5: Never walk away from a perfectly fitting dress. Never!

I spend the majority of the year in jeans. And jeans are great and all, but they're just jeans. Yeah, you can dress them up or dress them down, but nobody really cares. They're still jeans. Once the weather warms up and I can expand my footwear options though, it's all about being in a skirt! They're so light and flirty and flattering.

But when it comes to looking TOTALLY AWESOME, the only thing that's gonna cut it is a dress. As a friend once pointed out to me, the beauty of a dress is that it's so damn simple! You put it on, and then you look great. Easy as! The only trick to wearing a dress is that it's got to fit right. Otherwise you will not look TOTALLY AWESOME; you will look like you are wearing a burlap sack.

Now, I don't believe that anyone is the kind of person who can just randomly pick anything off the rack in their size and look great in it. That is some weird ass TV land fiction. We've all got different shapes and therefore different styles that do and don't work for us, this was style tip #2. And this leads me to believe that coming across a perfectly fitting dress is a rare find akin to coming across a unicorn on your stroll through the park. Therefore, when you come across this mystic creation, YOU MUST BUY IT NO MATTER WHAT! That is why god invented lay-bys.

Normally I'd feel sick at the thought of such a blatant endorsement of consumerism, but not in this case. The perfectly fitting dress is just too rare and wonderful a thing to let slip by. It is a thing from which there are no regrets. So ladies (of the southern hemisphere anyways), as the weather heats up keep your eyes peeled and maybe you will see that unicorn as you stroll through the park.