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!
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:
which will be a lovely match with a melon skirt (anyone else getting hungry?)
Fresh Pear - I can't recall the name of last year's version of this colour, but I have this skirt!:
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!
