Gather Round and You Shall Hear....

Of Parcel Received and an Addendum to Cape Fear...(Fred is in France, dammit, so I can take over the rhyme time,...)

First off the mark....

Oh My Goodness.  I am not not only the muse of George Clooney and sometimes other stars of screen and stage, I am now also in complete synch with THE SARTORIALIST!!!!
Imagine my surprise to get emails late in the day directing me here!!

Yes, I WAS thinking of capes.  How delightful that you should ask Monsieur...

Now looking at those capes, I am pretty sure that he was agreeing with Gigi and Ema, as I do not think these are delightful images at all.  I wondered if the cheeky "If You"re thinking of Capes" was the equivalent of anti-smoking ads with wrinkled skin and respirators saying "If you're thinking about smoking.."

I'm not going to lie - the man in the middle scares me.  I am good.  I am not getting a cape....



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Okay - if the Sartorialist blogs about Turquoise, J Crew  or black and white polka dot pants tomorrow, we officially have a psychic connection and this is no mere Halloween Hoax....

So...

Box 1 was waiting for me when I arrived home.  I madly tore into it and there were mixed reactions all around.  This is the one issue of only getting things by mail order.  Oh well, c'est la vie!

First off:  Turquoise cashmere tshirt and antique white pencil skirt:

Note pasty white legs.  I like the sweater, though I see every bump and would need to a) lose that darn 10 pounds and in the interim, b) spanx it.  But great colour, great price, I am in!  The picture does not do the colour justice.  I am going to take a prope photo of it with my camera.  It is lovely.

The antique white pencil skirt is lovely.  I am not 100% in love with it.  I think it could work and i did look at it with a couple of existing sweaters for interest's sake:

Paired here with the nougat london cardigan and the tippi in leopard print.

Or with my black and cream pink tartan cardigan.  I think this could be quite lovely and I will likely keep it,.

Same outfit, topped with the dream cardigan in heather periwinle.  Do not worry, I honestly would not wear it with the tshirt....

I actually really liked this sweater.  I looks all soft and dreamy and is just loverly.

I took a photo of it side by side with my jackie in periwinkle:

Much softer in colour, like looking at a colour through the mist.  I really like this and this would get a thumbs up, as Gigi would say!

Last but not least, the tiny dot cafe capris.  I had high hopes for them after seeing them on other lovely JCAs, but they are not for me:

I am sure with heels they would look better, but... well... they were soft and looked like pyjama pants, but they weren't special pyjama pants...

Another shot:

DOn't ask me about the lighting.  It is Halloween, I guess!

They are wool /viscose and here they are close up:

They are very soft and unlined.  My daughter was not a fan.  Look at the lovely lining however:

They almost felt sweat-pantish to me.  But for what I paid, that was too much.  I think I would prefer silk versions of pyjama pants.  So back they will go!

I am definitely keeping the sweaters, on the fence on the skirt and sending back the trousers.  That means only one thing: crazy pants are in my future... you know they are.....  and then the sartorialist will do a thing on them...

Have the most happiest of Thursdays and stay safe out there, since it Day of the Dead....