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Loads on Sale, Plus $33 Cheap Mondays(!)

01.28.2008

We have been thinking quite a bit about, you know, how all the newspapers are saying we’re all going to be poor, and quite soon, and then, in particular, how this affects the appetite for $200 jeans. (We are trying to find the NY Times piece quoting this guy who was all, ‘And some people will now have to adjust to life with $100 jeans.’ He was hysterical, though we are not sure if he was hysterical on purpose or not.)

Anyway: We happened to be working at a "luxury" magazine (read: $10,000 "seating units") when the whole "masstige" thing hit (mixing Hanes tees and Chanel jackets, Stella McCartney for H&M, etc) and it was weird: especially the way, for the audience of our magazine, everything had to get even more insane and blingier because (horrors!) the poor (read: middle class) could get a piece of Stella McCartney, even if they had to do it at H&M. At the same time, though, we own a pair of $200 jeans. (Just one. And we regret it. All our best denim comes from Topshop and cost around $80, and even that’s inflated thanks to our Monopoly-ish currency abroad.) Anyway, if there is a recession, there’ll be fewer advertising pages in magazines, and fewer stories to face those pages, and we’ll probably go back to fighting for babysitting jobs. But as far as this affects our appetite for $200 jeans: We don’t think we’d mind if they went away. We feature them here, all the time, because sometimes you need a pair of jeans you can wear to your office. God knows if we were planning on having an office job for longer than the next two weeks, we’d invest, and our boss would maybe stop saying things about how "bohemian"-ly we dress.

All we know is that we have another job interview on Thursday, and we have nothing to wear, but we do have a sewing machine, and we’re going to make ourselves a dress, all Project Runway-style. And we know fuck-all about economics, but we do know that saving is a good thing, and while we will defend, to our death, our endorsement, and occasional purchasing, of $200 jeans, we’re going to be as smart about it as possible. Which, in any case, was the whole point of this blog: the realization that sometimes we would either (a) want to buy something really beautiful or (b) need to buy something really smart, and that it would be nice to talk about those things sometimes.

Long story short: We’re tightening the belt around here. We’re still going to talk about $200 jeans, because if, say, we get that job on Thursday, we’re going to need them. But we also want to say that what we’re going to be thinking very hard about what we need, and what we don’t, and the difference between the two.

Did we mention we’re getting over the flu? Because this is the longest preamble we’ve ever made use of to say:

$33 jeans from Cheap Monday (above), hurrah! And now a few more items from the Active Endeavors sale:

Someone we know, who is not a girl, had a sweater at our apartment lately, and we kept hoping, as we hung it on a hanger and hid it on our clothing rack between various heavy coats of ours, that he would forget it here. He did not. Sometimes what you really need are the basics. Joie sweater, was $175, now $88

Lily McNeal makes the nicest sweaters, we swear. Lily McNeal wool sweater, was $207, now $104

And we are so excited to wear this next summer. Or with lots of tights and cardigans. Zooey dress, was $207, now $104

By the way, this is a small, small sampling of their massive sale: See the other 1400+ items here.

Because Life Is Colder Without Them: Cardigans

01.16.2008

american apparel cardigan

Cardigans. These are what make wearing summer dresses in January
okay. We are finding, though, that too many of ours are heavy, and then
too bulky beneath the coats, and so we are looking for the slightly
thinner ones. Not least because we seem to be unable to turn off the
Tahiti-like heat in our apartment. Again.

Anyway: This is pretty much exactly what we have been looking for. Unisex tri-blend cardigan, $40

generra cardigan

This is also sort of exactly what we’ve been looking for, except for the part about it being $230 more. Generra cardigan, $275

vince sweater

We are annoyed that this is so expensive. We would like trade our pillows for this sweater. We really had to think about that. Vince lantern-sleeve cardigan, $195

apc cardigan

And this, we think, is the platonic ideal of black, ribbed cardigans. APC cardigan, was $214, now $107

citizens of humanity cardigan

So we said we were sticking with the let’s-think-about-spring
thinner cardigans, but this one is so on sale that we are finding it
hard to ignore. Citizens French terry cardigan, was $156, now $78

vince sweater

All the Lovely New Things in Yellow

01.14.2008

zimmermann dress

Spring! Generally we like a bit of winter, if only to remind us how lovely and perfect the other months of the year are, especially the warmer ones. So we’ve always been a bit meh on the appearance of springtime-y things in the stores in January. We should say: We’ve always been a bit meh until now. Now, we’re thinking, yellow is our favorite color of all time. We can feel ourselves being prodded into action by marketing forces beyond our control, and we are not entirely sure how we feel about it.

Above: Zimmermann trapeze dress, $366

madewell

This is all from Madewell, which is tragically not doing online shopping yet, but more on that later today.

marc jacobs silk seaboard shirt

Now okay, so we hate everything on the bottom half of this model, but we pray it does not entirely distract from the top, which we actually rather like. Marc by Marc Jacobs silk top, $248

j crew camilla sweater jacket

We also don’t entirely love that headband, but whatever. We are so excited for shorts weather. Camilla sweater jacket, $128

old navy cardigan

Lemony yellow! So much nicer than lemony Pledge. Scoop-neck cardigan, was $29.50, now $20

Our Afternoon Sale Picks: American Eagle Sweaters

01.03.2008

But NB: We saw a couple of these in the store for less.

We bought this sweater! Typically we are firmly against the cotton sweater (given, as it is, to the bagging \ sagging), but … nothing ventured, nothing gained, etc. AE rugby sweater, was $49.50, now $34.95

We swear we saw the exact same sweater in Abercrombie last year, but given our feelings on Abercrombie, we’re happier to buy it here. A year later. Faux fur hoodie, was $99.50, now $69.95

This is the kind of top we never, ever buy, because we’d rather buy something with sequins. But then, not every occasion calls for sequins. Er, most do. But some, tragically, do not. Scoop neck sweater, was $44.50, now $19.95

Now That That’s Done: The Sales!

01.02.2008

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

Our Madewell Contest: Your Favorite Gifts

12.17.2007

Well, we don’t mind saying that we are completely out of gift-giving ideas. This is the way of things, we are thinking, eight days before Christmas, and four days before the exceptionally important cut-off for most online shopping things. Here’s how in denial we are: Until about ten minutes ago, we were pretty sure we could still get something shipped from the farthest corner of Africa in time for Christmas. Like we said, denial.

In any case: again, strength in numbers. This weekend a whole bunch of adorable Madewell t-shirts showed up at our house, and we’re going to give two(!) away every day this week. All anyone who wants to play needs to do is: in the comment section, today, tell us the favorite gift you’re giving anyone. You don’t need to leave any identifiying things, as we’re sure nobody wants to spill their favorite gift on a blog. We’ll be back tomorrow to share ours, since we’re giving it tonight.

In the meantime: tell us your favorite gift you’re *giving*, and we’ll be back tomorrow (really!) to announce the winners! (Who will be chosen at random.)

And in the meantime: We love Madewell, not least for their name, which we think is very clever. Naming is so hard. We spent like three years coming up with Bunnyshop, and then when we were all, “But we’re going to be stuck with the initials ‘BS’ forever’,” just totally gave up.

NB no online shopping yet but we hope soon.

Above: Madewell’s cardigan, $54

Not So Much Sweater Coats as Coat Sweaters (Or Something)

12.07.2007

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

Hmm, the Sweater Coat

12.06.2007

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

We Celebrate the Sweater Coat

11.05.2007

Sweater coats! Longer, and more coat-like, than cardigans. Not to be used in lieu of actual coats. We’ve done that, and rued the choice, more than once. In fact, we did that just tonight, with our Havaianas, and looked like big, roly-poly, sweater coat morons.

Doesn’t this model look totally impervious to the cold? It reminds us of that field where they planted that giant tree in the old Six Feet Under credits. Joie Roxy sweater, $295

We are not totally in agreement with the perspective that “this cardigan is perfect for any holiday occasion”, unless by occasion we are talking about sitting in front of the television because it is too cold to go outside. Which is, if we think about, how we spend most of the holidays, anyway. A+E cardigan, $49.50

We hate Abercrombie, but we admit we like some of their knitwear. But. That. Stupid. Moose! Argh. Cassie sweater, $79.50

This is really quite lovely and professional looking, no? Idaho cardigan from French Connection, $128

And this: We are not necessarily endorsing this. It’s a “cashmere peacoat sweater.” So it is super sweater-coat-y. It’s freaking us out a bit. We thought, at first, that it was just a cashmere peacoat, but it’s a cashmere peacoat sweater. We include this mostly as a question of interest, like when we called our friend K. to tell her about this meerkat we saw at the zoo. Cashmere peacoat sweater, $325

And again: Doesn’t this look rather bizarrely like an actual coat, rather than a sweater coat? Maybe it’s just us. All Wrapped-Up cardigan, $168

Sale of the Day: Marc Jacobs Sweater Coat

10.26.2007

Where the line between a belted cardigan and a sweater coat is, we don’t know. They’re pretty much everything we don’t like in a top: Tops that end at the hips, on munchkin-sized individuals, are rarely positive things. Still. Sometimes it is cold (though not, like, this year, but whatev), and sometimes that’s all that matters.

Also in a slightly more stain-resistant navy (“lapis”).

Marc Jacobs belted cardigan, was $358, now $214

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