A Preview of the J Crew Colours of Spring

I am interrupting my party planning to have a quick conversation with you all about spring colours!

You may ask yourself: why the heck is she discussing spring colours on January 10th?  Why?  Because it is snowing a bit again, I am home with a lot of time on my hands (learning to slow down is going to take some time it appears!) and when I stalked the J Crew website this a.m. looking for that darn pink herringbone blazer (that is a sign right, when I start describing it as that "darn" blazer?) I saw there were some new arrivals (no worries - I am being good as gold!) and those new arrivals gave me a great indication of where J Crew is going with its spring colours...

For me, there are two bellweathers as to the kinds of colours we can expect from JCrew - their no. 2 pencil skirts in cotton and their featherweight cashmere cardigans.  In my experience, over the last few years J Crew has had their signature colours in these items in nice solid colours that can then be matched with any of their prints.  I revisited last fall's Fasion Week Spring 2013 here, and it is clear that these are our JCrew colours.  Mind you - I have not included every colour....

So what did I notice?

Actually what I noticed was that the colours are only changing subtley this spring:

neon lime, the kissing cousin of last year's neon kiwi:

Vivi Aqua - the summer version of retro jade, which never was jade...

Morning Sky, which appears to me to be last year's orchid blue with a teensy bit more blue:

And neon Rose is hanging around:

Soft peach,

 

which will be a lovely match with a melon skirt (anyone else getting hungry?)

 

 Spearmint:

 Fresh Pear - I can't recall the name of last year's version of this colour, but I have this skirt!:

 and a lovely Indigo Blue, which looks markedly like Byzantine Blue:

 It is clear to me:

1) that if you lke colour, you are still in luck this spring
2) that everything you bought from J Crew last spring and summer will still be okay, because they have only tweaked the colour palette ever so slightly.  So slightly, in fact, that I am thinking they may have a bit of trouble selling some of this at full price unless there was a colour someone wanted and missed last summer (i.e. me and Byzantine Blue)
3) that J Crew thinks we don't remember what things were called last summer or what we bought (well the latter is often true for me, so I am not going to belabour THAT point!)

No cotton cafe capris in these colours yet, but you know they are coming.  What I am hopeful for is more prints in these colours, so will cross my fingers for one or two special pieces that would go with what I bought last year.

What do you think?  Anything inspiring you?  Are you getting tired of winter yet?  Thank Goodness that I have a party to look forward to!  More on that in the next day!

Have a happy Thursday and stay safe out there!