We do not like the trend of harem-style cargo pants: too many pockets, too much drape-y fabric—altogether not what we are looking for. We were about to paint these, above, with that same, broad brush, and yet: we were wrong (they’re not harem-y at all, really), and we love them. These, beyond being the $190 cargo pants of our dreams, are exactly right: just the right fit, just the right color, just the right degree of folded up leg. We swear to God that all we want in life is (a) to be on Work of Art; (b) to somehow teleport, rather than fly, to southeast Asia next month; and (c) these cargo pants. Actually, also, a national park passport book stamped and stamped and stamped. And a million other things. But the pants, in particular.

These go on the wishlist rather than another category because “wishlist” is where we put things we would only buy if we had a leprechaun living in our closet who occasionally handed us gold bars to take shopping. Eh, we promised ourselves a Lululemon top once we paid off a credit card. Rewards: they work surprisingly well!

Current / Eliot cargo pants, $188

We’re not sure what we think about the Nook—or the Kindle, or the iPad, or, you know, electric lights and motor cars. Books! Lovely, paper books. Eh, we’re just grumbling because we can’t afford one. Our position, we think, is migrating to this: lovely art and design books, always paper. Classic favorites (though of course it is difficult to recognize one of these when you buy it, before you’ve read it), always paper. Books with embossing on the covers—go digital. (Again, we’re just jealous that our own book didn’t get embossing. But it did get hand silk-screening! Who’s looking for a great beach read with an unbelievably labor-intensive cover-production system?)

Anyway: the new Kate Spade covers for the Nook. These are so inferior to the Missoni fabric iPad covers we’re working up that we can hardly deal with it. We actually started researching adding “like” and “don’t like” buttons for our posts just for this one, as we find them so aggravating. (The Jack Spade ones are cuter.) And: stupidly expensive! Sheesh.

Kate Spade covers for the Nook, $125

To be honest, the dress we really want is this one—but it’s sold out! Tss. So we found the designer, Corey Lynn Calter, and this is the dress we love next-best in her collection. And we love it! Plus, bonus, it is not sold out. It is embroidered. And we keep reading about how white’s the color of the summer, etc. etc., and we do like to do as told. White! Embroidered! It’s a close second. And as diehard lovers of the short dress, we adore this designer—see the entire portfolio here.

Krista Ladder Embroidered dress, $128

It’s apparently the week of 1000 sales here—we have our new sale item of the day page (with a new sale item!) and news today of a big sale at Maya Brenner Designs: 35% with discount code SUMMER. There could be none finer: charm necklaces, or discount code. (Our only sadness is that we no longer have summer to look forward to, and must satisfy ourselves with simply sucking the marrow from it, every morning between now and mid-September. Beach! Barbecue! New season of Intervention!)

Anyhoo: this would be our choice at Maya Brenner. “As seen on Penelope Cruz”! Jewelry Box necklace, was $160, with discount code summer, $104

True, we returned the vast majority of what we bought on J.Crew last week, but 30% off sale is incredibly tempting. Check it out, and if you’re interested, do so quickly – looks like good stuff is disappearing fast. Just be forewarned, page loading times and the ability to add items to your cart seems to be extremely buggy (and annoying!).

Case in point: we don’t love the t-shirt shown above, but it was the only page we could get to load.

Microspun t-shirt, was $48, now $20 with promo code EXTRA30

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