Madewell in Corte Madera
posted by Colleen Shirazi
on
Monday, August 29, 2011
at 8:19 PM (Pacific)
Yes, San Francisco Bay Area ladies, Madewell is opening a b & m in Corte Madera...tomorrow, apparently. I'd like to see their stuff in person; it's a bit difficult to fathom from the website images. Take this, for example:
Madewell Cloudwriter Top in Optic White
Fantastic, or craptastic? Impossible to say. It looks nicer modelled:
Madewell Cloudwriter Top in True Black
Done well, this could be handy—it goes with everything, and the lace at the top would add something special. It's cotton/modal, machine washable, shouldn't require ironing...hermmm...
That's a random pick; there are many intriguing items on the site (will post back once I've checked the shop out).
Was talking with the co-worker the other day, I said he was like Blondie...underrated, lots of good ideas, the kind of guy who influences...he looked blank. Blondie? What's that?
Knowledge is cute.*
posted by Colleen Shirazi
on
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
at 9:04 PM (Pacific)
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
--Oscar Wilde
Done some random J.Crew diving, to whit:
J.Crew Jackie Cardigan in Lacquer Yellow
Finally, "Laquer Yellow" showed up at the b & m, and now sporting a "c"! Hm. I'm glad I didn't try buying it online, sight unseen. Had been speculating if this were screamin' yellow, or mellow yellow, but it is totally a bright lemon shade. Could do with something subtler...
J.Crew Jackie Cardigan in African Violet
Likewise: is this knock-down, drag-out purple, or more a blue-purple tone? Inquiring minds discover—it's...purple. Were it bluer, I could've been interested.
J.Crew Jackie Cardigan in Saddle
This was a bit of a disappointment...I'd been looking for a "nude" Jackie shell, but not literally nude...more a tan, like this:
Not this exact look (the tank here is silk) but the idea, a very simple look. I'm not even sure a Jackie shell would work here, but Saddle is not it. It's just too flat; it needs a dash of pale gold, or of rose, or of something.
They did not have "Brilliant Pine" Jackie in the store. Wah!
J.Crew Jackie Cardigan in Deep Peri
And finally...this one, I liked. More vivid than the imo rather drab "Madagascar Peri," yet not, ah, screamin' neon blue. I tried it on, and was a bit fuddled by the fact it seemed a size larger than other Jackies I have tried. Neither the Jackie cardigans nor the shells are sized consistently; I've tended to buy Large in the shells (on the notion they could always be shrunk in the dryer), and X-Large in the cardigans, to get them to button without gaping at the bust. But this one buttoned fine in Large. It seems to depend on the shade; my navy Jackie just fits in X-Large.
Why the Jackie obsession? I've found them amazingly useful, the perfect weight for our "summer"—chilly in the morning, almost hot by the afternoon? You don't feel the need to pile on an extra layer for the A.M. nor strip off clothes later on. I can admit I like it they crank out so many shades of these; if you don't see one you like, it seems to me you could just wait twenty minutes and another will come along.
* Why smart cute guys are cuter than regular cute guys.
