it's Fall 2013: the Non-collegiate Sweatshirt.

There are here, there and everywhere.  Updated 'sweatshirts'. No, not with 'Harvard University' emblazoned across the front.  With gems and top stitching, the new sweatshirt is cool and comfortable.  Easy over jeans, cords, and dressed up over a pencil skirt.

The Polyvore set below uses my favorite casual item du jour to create a very wearable look for fall that will go miles, from drop off, to the office, and back out for lunch.

Created by Lisa Bida on polyvore.com.

Here's a few more ideas for sweatshirts too if you are curious about how ye old sweatshirt could be anything but collegiate and unflattering.

Created by Lisa Bida and Jennifer Houston on polyvore.com.

So the next time you see a sweatshirt, look at it a little differently than you did in 8th grade. ~ LB