End of the year. And with it, time to recap and make some sort of personal balance of 2016. As always, it's been a year full of nice moments and bad times, it is what it is. As always, I try to be conscious of making too much resolutions for the coming year, but there's always room for improvement and there will always be things to work on.

2016 is been a year full of unexpected things, unexpected friendships, moments and experiences. It's been a year full of unexpected bonds and teamwork, of exciting things and mostly a year plenty of illusion for me: about new projects, about my career, about what's to come next. It's been the year I experienced firsthand how it really feels to work in an architecture studio, dealing with crazy deadlines, huge papers and the bosses. It's been also the year when I've started discovering my true self, how many stuff I'm capable of handling, where's my limit and still, I'm trying to figure out if I can reach further. It's been also the year I've said goodbye to those whom I felt didn't contribute to my life anymore, for many reasons. Sometimes, it's just better to let go.

Maybe it hasn't been a year plenty of blog posts, but I think I've taken enough fresh air out of the blogosphere and I've been looking around to know how to focus better on this task, how to communicate better, or how to boost my ideas to write more about the things you care the most. Because as I'm always saying, my task here is to inspire and to be inspired, and all of you are a big part into this. After 2016 I feel more capable of taking Something Fashion into the next level, getting the most out of fashion, streetstyle, emerging designers, vintage and so on by twisting everything, and giving it a new point of view.

What's to come, then, for 2017? I'm currently considering tons of options, tons of new projects and partnerships. Hopefully, there will be more blog posts to come. I'm also considering giving the whole "blogging specialization" thing a chance. However, as there are lots of things I've been mixing around here these almost 7 years, I don't know if that will work out. I'm also considering if staying local as I've been since the very beginning, or in the other hand, being more internationally focused when writing about fashion events or news. I don't know. Right now, I'm waiting for everything to settle down a bit: for Christmas holidays to end, for my exam period to end as well, for that time I have enough savings to invest on blog improvements... Everything is a bit blurry now, but as always, it will eventually work out!

I can't believe it's almost Christmas and we're almost done with our quarterly subjects, which include (as always) tons of work deliveries and presentations for December 21st-22nd. After that, I'll be mostly at home for the coming exam period and working on some nice architecture contests we've been looking after. But, as Christmas always is, the season includes uncountable relative meetings, dinners, casual meet-ups with old friends around cups of tea and biscuits and so on. That means having a bunch of easy and quick outfit fixes for every event the holidays might come up with.

A nice idea is to take out of your closet all your mid length, mid sleeve dresses in warm tones or with subtle details and pair them with your best opaque, thick tights or leggings and medium heels. Then, get wrapped in your warmest scarf and coat and you're done to rock this Christmas! I did so in this grey, A-line dress from Lightinthebox which arrived just at the perfect time to assemble my Christmas outfits for casual events or evenings strolling through the streets of Valencia. This dress is the perfect match for the holidays, and for less than 30$, which is a real deal!

It's made of an elastic grey cotton, it ends a little bit above the knee, has a side zipper, is cut at the waist with a ribbon to adjust to your back and a lovely V-neck. It runs true to size, but I must say I was a bit scared of if I could wear it successfully or not as I ordered an XL as these kind of dresses usually run pretty small. But, if you follow the size charts at the Lightinthebox site as I did, I'm pretty sure you won't face any problem. As you can see, I succeeded at the sizing and it fits nicely.

The quality of the dress is also great. It has no lining, but I don't think there's need of it, as the grey fabric is thick enough and nothing can be shown through it. All the hems and final touches have been sewn carefully, as no thread has gone rogue in the way of wearing the dress. As said: a real deal to wear this coming Christmas season, and a dress you'll get tons of compliments with!

The whole shipping process was also very easy and quick. The dress came in about 2 weeks since I ordered it, and arrived to Valencia during one of the stormiest weeks I've ever lived. Thankfully, we've been having an exceptional warm weather for the past two or three days, which allowed me to wear the dress for a family lunch and to an event at the Architecture School without even carrying my coat with me. Not even a light blazer. Seriously. Valencian weather is the craziest thing.