Where: CW's Bible Play.
Ease of Wear: (4.5 of 5 stars--5 being the most easy to wear.) I love the ease of this outfit. I normally try to dress up more if I am going to the kids' school, especially if it is for a play/performance, but I wasn't feeling up to getting kitted up that day, so I figured a dash of color would make up for the fact that I am wearing jeans. :-)
The Must Have Tee
is super soft and just warm enough, even though it is fairly lightweight (see my original review of it here). I didn't have to wear a coat that day, by some minor miracle in this Canadian winter of ours, we had a day of semi-warmth.Cool Factor: (2.5 of 5 stars--5 being the coolest--for both outfits.) Very pretty, but also very casual. Just somewhere right in the middle of cool...
Anecdote from the Day: You can never hear kids when they are performing, huh? There is a chance CW did say her line properly, but we aren't sure. They all sang the songs really well, though.
Where: Home sewing and school pickup.
Ease of Wear: (4.5 of 5 stars--5 being the most easy to wear.) Again, a super high score for comfort. Those Pure Collection
pants are sublime, and I am so glad I have these in both the navy and the black color (I am wearing the black now as I type). Even though I haven't been able to do a lot of in-depth reviews of Pure Collection lately (budget constraints, boo!), I do look over there from time to time (and keep their coupons in my sidebar) since I LOVE everything I have from them. Looks like they have a near dupe of these pants in their current collection called the Pure Silk Tie Waist Trousers, and I kind of think I need to save up for the ones in jade. My pants are made from a heavy poly mix, so I suspect the silk ones would be even more luxurious and special. Pure is having a big mid-season sale and the pieces in there look to be very pretty, especially all the cashmere in sherbert shades. The Pure Silk Tie Waist Trousers are not in the sale (the sister, the silk tie waist skirt is, though), but you can use the sidebar coupon to get an additional 25% off those, if you like the look. (The 25% off does not come off the mid-season pieces, though.)Cool Factor: (2.5 of 5 stars--5 being the coolest--for both outfits.) The Downtown Field Jacket seems to be the coolest bit of this look, as it is so popular that J. Crew keeps bringing it back season after season. The rest of the outfit is fine, of course, but not especially cool.
Anecdote from the Day: My stinking Pants Sloper I worked SO HARD on is TOO BIG! I spent hours redrafting the sloper into a new pants pattern with a yoke and pockets only to make the whole thing up and find the whole thing was too big by one whole inch on each side. Sigh. I put the redrafted pattern against what I had made in class and it was the same, so the only thing I can think is that because I wore tights and not bare skin to the lessons that the friction from the fabric allowed the pants to stay up since they definitely were falling off of me when I finished all the hard work on the pants I made at home. I can save them, I took an inch off each side seam and they fit better, but still a bit loose. I think I need to redraft the pattern again and hope for the best. I can save the pants I worked on, but they will likely become "at home" "fat day" pants.
At least the crotch length and depth is accurate, so small favors, right?
Where: Finishing the kindergarten class quilt, the Veronica Mars movie, and Girls Night Out with B. and T.
Ease of Wear: (3.5 of 5 stars--5 being the most easy to wear.) The Peter Pilotto for Target tee is very soft and comfortable (and worth the $20 I spent, only thing from the collection not overpriced in my estimation). The points off are for the jeans, which while look fine on me are just not *super, over the top,* pj comfy the way I have decided I want all my pants to feel. LOL. I am getting soft in my old age.
Cool Factor: (4 of 5 stars--5 being the coolest--for both outfits.) This outfit is pretty cool. I think the whole look makes me look a touch younger, maybe not super youthful, but maybe, possibly, *not a mom with three kids* young? :-) Here's to hoping, anyhow.
I cannot believe how much the people in the UK were willing to pay for these Target pieces. They were sold at Net-a-Porter UK and from what I could tell they simply took the American price and put a pound sign in front of the amount instead of a dollar sign. So this tee would have been 20 pounds, or nearly $35. Yikes. And then of course some of the items sold out and the ebay people over there then double or tripled the UK price. Seriously. Wow. I made a joke with some of my UK blog friends that I could go to the local Target, buy most of the pieces on sale, and then make a *stupid* amount of profit if I did that. I guess we didn't want these pieces as much as the ladies over there did.
Anecdote from the Day: My hubby and I love Veronica Mars. I loved it enough to obsessively watch it, but my husband was obsessive enough to actually give money to the kickstarter to get the movie funded. It turned out that he couldn't give money in the end since the whole project was funded in one day (fast!!!). That's some serious love. It was a good movie, but it was weird, like it should have been on TV, but there I was, along with other adults reliving their *decade old* youth in a theater. Did anyone else out there see it?
Okay, that's all for now.
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