We saw someone in basically this coat today, and an extra-long-sleeved turtleneck, and we were totally jealous. Our nature is to hope that she bought it full price, while we get it on sale, but we are trying to improve our clearly negative frame of mind.
MK2K bubble jacket, was $216, now $151.20
Honestly we just don't know where to start with all this sale stuff, but as we figure it out, we will gravitate to the cashmere things, and the coat things, because it is still cold as fuck.
Above: Ella Moss cashmere dress, was $304, now $152
We have seriously wanted this coat for like a million years \ three months. That is a lot of coat for a not-entirely-absurd amount of money. Karen Zambos Vintage Couture swing coat, was $561, now $280.50
We would be fairly happy with this coat as well. It totally looks like she is not wearing any bottoms. L.A.M.B. bubble coat, was $485, now $242.50
This is not cheap. Chiffon! Never enough chiffon in the world. Or something. Rag & Bone swing dress, was $560, now $280
We swear these exact same jeans, more or less, were Oprah's pick yesterday for slimming denim. James Jeans - Dry Aged denim, were $198, now $99
That is nice pair of black pants, well discounted, but NB they're final sale so try on elsewhere. Helmut Lang stovepipes, was $355, now $106.50
Ooh, we don't mean to be such horrible grinches, but we are, in fact, horrible grinches, and we must say: January! Hurrah! Everything is feeling very clean and do-over and new start, we're thinking. We may hate New Year's Eve (and Jesus help us, we do) but we love New Year's resolutions. We make ours on an Excel spreadsheet. Last year we think we got to one of them (out of maybe 250) but. You know. Ever upward.
We're working on making the site here a bit more ... er, [positive, business-world-type adjective here], and we are all psyched about the new search box (hurrah!) and our new, fancy, top-ten posts to the side there. It's all looking a bit of a mish-mash to us at the moment—we would live in a clean, white box, if we could, even if we would immediately fill it with magazines, clothing, craft supplies, and other detritus.
Anyway. If anyone has any comments, we'd love to hear them. For now, back to our regular, though holiday-interrupted content. Sales! One of January's leading features. We begin today with APC. It is a top favorite. And this shit is going to fly out the stores, if you will. Above: the hooded coat, was $686, now $343
These are "very tight jeans. We are sure they will be a lovely fit following four weeks of stuffing, gravy and cookies. V. Charlotte Gainsbourg, we're thinking. APC very tight women's jeans, were $140, now $70
There is something distinctly Belle de Jour about this dress to us. Lace dress, was $427, now $214
And this is so Au Revoir, Les Enfants, minus any of the horrible war parts. Schoolgirl skirt, was $244, now $122
This is the sort of thing we'd be like, urg, so boring, but then we'd own it and be so exceptionally happy. Rounded collar cardigan, was $214, now $107
We love half of this coat, and are baffled by the other half. Plastic Island sweater \ coat, $261
Ditto this one, from Charlotte Ronson. Those sleeves are knit (and detachable). This is cuter on than in the picture. Charlotte Ronson detachable sleeve coat, $497
We were never hugely pro-Charlotte Ronson—it's the wealth and connections, we just can't help ourselves—but we like this coat as well, even if it has nothing to do with the sweater \ coat theme here. We have totally come around on patch pockets, as well. It's one big ball of positivity here today, apparently. It's funny—we were trying to link to somewhere other than Shopbop for this, spreading the, er, wealth around, but everyone but them seems to be sold out. Charlotte Ronson Paddington coat, $338
It is the season of the sweater coat. We always feel like we want it to be the season of not-actually-going-outside, but every once in a while, we run out of lightbulbs and food, and outside we go. Ironically, we feel like sweater coats should only be worn prior to actual winter, when we're not going outside unless in some sort of North Face. And then in spring, they just seem a little ... autumnal. You know what we mean? Sweater coats for fall, or at least what's left of it, light-colored trench coats for spring. Or whatever.
We like this one because it's made out of boiled wool and thus won't be subject to the same level of sag as its cotton cohorts. Above: Anthropologie sweater coat, $188
We love this one, even if it is really topping out the sweater-coat budget by more than a bit. LaROK kimono sweater jacket, $348
Topshop carries no sweater coats. We are not sure if this is a cultural divide or just good sense. We are feeling, like fanny packs, they are a particularly American invention. This is a designer sweater coat that we cannot afford. Mrph. We don't even necessarily want it. We add for the purpose of reflection. If it is possible to reflect upon a sweater coat. Stella McC sweater coat, was $1495, now $899
We are trying so hard to find a sweater we like that is (a) not from Anthropologie and (b) not $900 and we are totally failing. Woodcutter sweater coat, $168
Er, we just don't know. Conceptually: sweater! Coat! In one! We should love nothing more. And yet. And yet. Louisa sweater coat, $229
All these sweater coats and this is probably what we'd end up buying. It's not even a coat. Scoopneck cardigan, $26.50
Short-sleeved coats: apparently an oxymoron. But not always annoying. For one thing, it does not snow everywhere. There are plenty of places in both this nation \\ on this planet, where there is a climate suitable for the wearing of 3/4-sleeve coats, even during winter. Also, long-sleeve shirts beneath three-quarter sleeve shirts are quite warm-making. We are not cautiously but unreservedly pro.
This has got to be one of the prettiest coats we've ever seen. Especially pls note the lovely tie detail at the wrists. Anthropologie overcoat, $248
Trench coats with 3/4-sleeves kind of freak us out. We can admit this. Boxfresh trench, $102
We would totally wear this, especially with one of those black dresses we were just discussing. Faux leopard swing coat, $168
We love this, even though we'd probably swap out that belt. Cashmere funnel neck coat, $230
We are pro-this coat because it is totally basic but that leather trim, and we are so often anti-leather trim, makes this look just quite not totally pulled together in the dark. And we love those jeans, no? Mike & Chris 3/4 jacket, $369
So like we were saying, we were warned by the sponsor behind our $500 Shopbop raffle \ fundraising event to better publicize the whole deal, and it is thus: Donate $5 to the Mongolian charities we're raising money for (it all sounds so random, but they're Mercy Corps Mongolia and the perfectly named Send-a-Cow) via the button to the left, and for each $5, we'll provide you with a ticket for Saturday's $500 Shopbop raffle. That is all. That is so complicated. We come up with the most convoluted plans sometimes, really.
Anyway: Win $500 and this lovely Rebecca Taylor coat will only cost $26 out of pocket. It's less than ... some really expensive books! Box sets of DVDs! Etc!
So today we were in H&M, minding our own business, when we thought—thought!—we saw the grey duffle coat worn by Daria Werbowy in this commercial and coveted by us in real life. Midway between our starting point and our mirage—stairs! Stairs we did not see, until going splat. We have a sprain. We have a new British friend who lifted us to our feet. We have a lingering resentment against the Marble Arch H&M for not marking their steps more clearly.
Anyway, we have decided they are not for us, these grey duffle coats, and we are going back to safer, more familiar, sprain-free waters: the coat with furry collar. (These are all faux-fur, btw.) We don't think they work for anything much fancier than, say, going to the store for magazines and Diet Coke (or, in our case, hopping on nice foot on the way to the store), but as it happens, that is how we spend most of our free time.
We know that in many parts of the country it is still too warm for jacket-buying, but all we're saying is: We're not getting caught out in November when everyone else is wearing cute jackets and we're wearing, like, a bath towel around our shoulders.
Ooh, quite dramatic, that. That model above is so, like, 'Where's my cheese?" Urban parka, $125
Few things say 'fall' to us than, basically, precisely this jacket. American Eagle faux-fur jacket, $79.50
We have been posting a lot of Marc Jacobs this season. MXMJ jacket, $228
Why do Macy's pictures always look so weird? Bizarre-oh. Esprit coat with hood, was $237, now $177.75
Sometimes what you want in your coat is actual warmth, and that's where North Face comes in. North Face Nebula jacket, $249
We will allow that there is a fairly cute hooded jacket at Abercrombie, but it's overpriced, and no matter how hard we try, they will not let us (in London) access their US site. Dummies. Ugh, we hate them.
So we know, and are always a bit annoyed about, US brands that have EU designers for all their stores in Europe. Our most-hated guilty party is Lee: Lee! Lee Jeans has got to be as American as freaking apple pie, and yet all of their US designs are crap and all their European ones are beautiful and nice. Levi's is also bringing their EU collection home, as it were, at some point. And to this we say: What is the problem with making nice things for Americans? We are so over the thing about Americans being all about the bad shorts and the fannypacks. Spare us.
Anyhoo, the Gap, another guilty party in the make-nicer-things-for-Europeans-than-Americans thing, is making a few of their Euro designs available to us ... provincials, at least online. It's sort of weird, we're thinking, because even if it's all stuff designed by actual Europeans, it looks styled fairly American-ly, no? We might just be a little overly suspicious about this, however.
Above (in a different color, we believe): cotton\cashmere dress, $78
We actually think this is quite pretty but we'd like it even more if were cut just a bit more narrow-like. Open-knit sweater, $68
Honestly we're dying for a duffle coat, and it is possible that this might be the one. Duffle coat, $148
Honestly, we find a lot of this line just a bit too boring. (We have no idea what makes this particularly European, or interesting, or anything.) We guess we sort of like this coat, but it's really stretching the boundary of our boring limits. Military coat, $128
Oh! Worth mentioning that our lovely Shopbop is doing one of those sales where the more you spend, the more you get off. If we had the cash, we would clearly use this as an opportunity to bring home a fall investment-y piece. Like, for example: a coat! And then we would think we were being quite smart, getting it at a discount. And we would be happy about our coat. And less angry that it was no longer summer.
Important note! Sales ends at midnight, central time.
Obviously, the sale's open to any purchase, not just our selection here. Anyway: spend $500, get $125 off with code FALL2007. Above: Marc by Marc Jacobs coat, $628 (-$125)
Summer: It lives on in our hearts. Medical waste: thankfully waiting until Labor Day weekend to show up on our nation's beaches. We do not advocate torture for anyone except those who dump medical waste off the coast of New Jersey. We would like to dump medical waste all over their houses, and their beds, and their cars, and then rub their little noses in it. Ooh, a bit weird, really, but fall is here, and we are, without doubt, getting back to business here. Until we can figure out how to swap hemispheres, etc.
Anyway, fall: It finds us, once more, without suitable outerwear, in the sense that American Apparel sweatshirts are not, quite, suitable outerwear. Pea coats are suitable outerwear. What we really want is the shaggy-furred jacket from Topshop (see very far below, where we almost cannot get to it) (ETA: It just disappeared offline, so we are taking down the link here and removing ourselves to the store immediately), but we are hoping we will be sensible and buy a peacoat.
Can we say we become quite disinterested in our peacoats when they get (a) a bit too marching band or (b) a bit too trench.
Really we just put this one in here to laugh at the idea of a $1000 peacoat. Hahahahahaaha. We are laughing on the inside, too. Burberry peacoat, $995
We are not laughing quite at hard as this one. We are more sighing wistfully while sneering at our bank balance. Rebecca Taylor pea coat, $473
This is what we consider a warmish-weather peacoat. Also in the slightly less stain-resistant "stone" and "brioche". Er, brioche. Whatever. James Perse peacoat, $204
This is our favorite of the bunch, being at least a bit peacoat-ish. Ish! The eternally flexible modifier. Double-breasted coat, about $110
We like the silhouette (and the price, obvs) but: velveteen? Velveteen? Really? Velveteen peacoat, $39.50
Fall things at Shopbop! And 10% of all Shopbop purchases (linked-to from this site) for Mongolia efforts! Oooh, we love it.
Now, we are total Juicy haters—the starlets in the tracksuits, barf—but they keep making non-tracksuit things we really like. This is a fantastic coat. We just barely understand how it was produced by the same people who make the tracksuits. And the velour hoodies. Argh. Juicy Couture quilted hoodie, $328
More fall-ish things from Shopbop! And another mention that 10% of all the Shopbop purchases linked-to from here will go to fund all things Mongolian. So quadruple hurrah for that.
Can we just say that we honestly dream of the day when we will confidently buy our top-choice fall coat before it is, say, January. Theory trench, $495
First: Hurrah! New week, new discount. And this one, we will say, was the popular winner when we asked everybody who they wanted a discount from. (Another idea? Please, please let us know, and we'll get in touch with them. We're happy to ask anyone.) Anyway: Active Endeavors! All 20% off. Discount code: "bunnyshop20".
We are always confused, when we have a discount, if we should buy inexpensive things, and really make out, or use it to buy expensive things we would otherwise really not be able to afford. Today, we go with the latter. And! We asked the lovely and excellent Abby for her fall splurge
We just absolutely need a coat like this. Rebecca Taylor shawl collar coat, was $473, with discount, $378.40
But we also want it in the supremely stainable white. Rebecca Taylor coccoon coat, was $548, with discount, $438.40
And then also the nice cardigan (at top). Apparently it's Rebecca Taylor day here at Bunnyshop. RT cardigan, was $440, with discount $352
Not quite as expensive tomorrow, we're thinking.
So in addition to gray jeans and peep toes, and mini-dresses and sandals, we are extremely excited about our other spring look: shorts and frilly tops. Although the word we want is not really "frilly." Maybe we will say "regal." Better: "polished." Now polish is something we'd fight for. Shorts ($248), top
($188) (we'd like it even better in the "wild strawberry"), and coat ($628), all MXMJ.
The perfect trench: Is it white? Rather than beige? Or, er, any other color? For spring, we are thinking, it may be white. This one, from Michael Kors(-ish), won't break the bank. But what are those ridiculous epaulette-y things? Argh. Argh. So close, so far. Michael by MK double-breasted trench, was $160, now $96
And actually we quite like this one. Even cheaper, and no annoying superfluity. If that is a word. American Eagle spring trench coat, was $79.50, now $59.95
There is also a very cute white trench at Benetton, which horribly refuses to sell things on the Internet. What is wrong with them? What?
We are so baffled by the Burberry Prorsum coat parade. On one hand: terrifying! On the other: sort of bad ass!
Our favorite is the one on the left.
Maybe we will satisfy ourselves with an over-the-top belt, like this one.
This model looks a little naked to us. Nonetheless, we are thinking that this may in fact be the trench for which we have searched so long! Appropriate tan color: check. Reasonable lapels: check. Reasonably short length: check. We're a a touch iffy about the sleeves, but our hopes are high.
We are still so aggravated by Juicy Couture, in concept and tracksuit-actuality, but past the hoodies we actually quite like a lot of their stuff, even when it costs a little more than we'd ideally like. For the right trench—staple! staple! is what we keep telling ourselves—we'd probably pay. JC 3/4 sleeve piped trench, $350
It was just one of those things: We saw one of our teachers just sort of ... throw on her lightweight trench coat, like a cape, as she walked out of class, and we knew we needed one immediately. We are aware that in many parts of the world it is weather-inappropriate for lightweight trench coats. All we know is that we went into Abercrombie today and pretty much everything they are selling involved some sort of pun with either the word "spring" or "break." Maybe if we were going on one, we would wear it to the airport. We do not know. All we know is: We want one.
Unbelievably, or not, we saw a fabulous range—well, two—of them, super-cheap, at Forever 21, and we cannot recommend them more highly—as long as you can live with a big, super-full skirt, which, because we have the height of a munchkin, cannot. But still: under $40, there's little reason to complain. They're going too fast to end up online, but if you're interested, your local F21 might have one in stock. We liked the black ones: one with a [subtle] polka-dot belt, and the other with a polka-dot lining. The one above, in our dressing-room budget-cam, is the former. We were totally into it, but the skirt was just too full, and we are just too short. Both under $40.
This is, unbelievably, almost exactly what we want: not super expensive, lightweight, trench-y. The open neckline is just right. And not too bell-y at the bottom. Coffee Shop trench, $68
Doesn't seem like it makes sense to have any list of trenches lacking one from Burberry, if for no other reason than comprehensiveness. Burberry London Windsor trench, $1175
This one makes us laugh [not just because of the price but also] because at first we were like, "Oh, that's kind of cool, it looks really lightweight," and then we see it here and it is such a Hugh Hefner smoking jacket, no? Calvin Klein metallic linen trench, $1700
We can't afford this one either—apparently that is today's refrain: it's either $50 or $1000, there's just no middle ground here—but we looooove it. Actually, we're a little suspicious about the belt, but the neckline is just so perfect we may be willing to in this case overlook it. Honestly, if we were buying one "nice work" coat, this would totally be it, or in the black. Mara Hoffman trench, $726
We have always loved our plastic-y raincoats, even our green one from Topshop, which we wore to class one day, and our teacher was like, "Raise your hand if you think this green raincoat is the best item of clothing in the room," and nobody but us raised our hand. Honestly, horrifying. But anyway: raincoats! We loved that raincoat, even when we tried to wear three sweaters underneath it (we get cold) and the plastic overlay split down the seam, and we took it to bemused-but-not-helpful tailor after bemused-but-not-helpful tailor.
Which means it is now time for a new raincoat. We believe it will be by Sara Berman. And we love this one, for summer. (It is summer weight.) And: It is $500 off! It is still $200, but $500 off is a lot. Ooh, better if it'd be $600 off, but beggers \ choosing \ etc.
Sara Berman puffball trench coat, was $715.40, now $215.60
We can afford this one even less. We like it even more. Tss. Sara Berman tartan puffball trench, was $607.60, now $454.72
Now we're no vegans. We eat meat. We wear leather. But. Seriously. Something about this Karl Lagerfeld mink coat and we're just like ... meh. Or not even meh, but ... barf. It's so white, it's so fur, it's such a sizable percentage of our annual salary. Maybe it is what we hate about fashion, all the indulgence ("pure glamour in white mink"). It is the economics as much as it is the mink for us, though we're open to varying reads: We just don't know about the person who spends $5,500 on a white mink. Not just a mink, but a white one. The whole things just gives us a headache, and little frown lines between our eyebrows, and we blame no one but Karl Lagerfeld and his over-the-top mink coat.
We hesitate to link to it, but: Karl Lagerfeld mink coat, $5,500
We are not kidding or exaggerating when we say that today is offically better than Christmas. Except in the religious way. Whatever. In our mailbox, from the exceptionally helpful Nora Lynn:
Apparently topshop.com now ships to the US. Which may or may not be news to you.
You probably already know this and announced it on your site with great fanfare and I was, like, in a fugue state or something and missed it, but I just saw this and didn't remember seeing it on Bunnyshop and, since you are The Greatest Fan of Topshop Ever, felt like I should make sure that you knew for sure.
Here's the wording re shipping costs cut-and-pasted from the Topshop site:
Delivery Information and Costs
United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland
* Standard £4 delivery charge
* Express £5 delivery charge (UK only)
Delivery is free for orders over £100
United States of America and Australia
* Standard £10
We're shaking our heads. There are no words. Except: Thank you sweet Jesus.
This is what we would get. This is actually a little fucked up, because now we can buy all the things we have just sort of passively wanted, and that is extremely bad news for our income-to-debt ratio. Ah, who cares.
Now, to be honest, we are a little disappointed, because two of the things we wanted just last week have gone out of stock. But adapt we will.
We love these shoes, we just absolutely love them. There is nothing else to say. Glitter heels, about $50
This could be great. Great! Grid quilted smock dress, about $90. Really excellent timing with the pound at a 14-year-high against the dollar. Seriously. Fuck you, whoever decides those things.
We hate buying white coats. It is a story that has never ended well. But ooh, there are some mistakes we just seem to enjoy making over and over. Asymmetric wrap coat, about $210
This dress could look absolutely horrible but we are convinced it could look equally freaking amazing. Peter Jensen for Topshop puffball dress, about $160
We have no idea what we'd do with this, but we think it's hysterical. Romper, about $70
Personally, we avoid double-breasted coats like the plague, or at least a bad cold. Either way. They make us look like we are twice as big as we normally are, and that is not, unfortunately, the look to which we aspire. There are, however, quite a few reasonable ones out there, and they are tempting us. Like the cookies we cannot throw away. Forcefully and stealthily.
This is our favorite. Honestly. It's just perfect. It is even better with that hat. Ugh. Perfect. APC coat, $487
