A Conversation about Jcrew

Friday was one of those days. I woke up a little bit stressed already because I had THREE Xmas parties to attend, one at my daughter's school in the morning (not that a 2-years-old Xmas party stresses me out "per se" but it meant that I had very little time to do stuff on my own, as drop-off was at 9 and the party started at 11, and should I mention that it was the only day where I could have potentially gone THE TORY BURCH SAMPLE SALE wasn't it for the party?), one in the building for cocktails and one later in the evening at friend's and plenty of errands to do in between. I already knew that I wouldn't have the time to do everything, but as to make things worst I LOCKED MYSELF IN THE APARTMENT after dropping my daughter at school. I know, it's pretty unusual, normally people lock themselves out, but what happened is that a piece in my door's lock broke and I couldn'open the door from inside the apartment because the knob wouldn't turn without the key (and my lock doesn't have a key-hole on the inside). Luckily my doorman had my keys, so he let me out and I could go to my daughter's Xmas party but I had to call the locksmith anyway because once back from school I wouldn't be able to close my apartment's door without locking myself inside again (which I actually did: closing the door is such an automatic action, one of those things that you do all the time without even realizing that you're DOING something). Well, the locksmith came and worked on the door-lock all the afternoon, so around 6 I just had the time to dress and rush my daughter out the door to the building Xmas party.

All this to say that it was an exhausting day and I didn't even have the time to take a shower before going to the evening party and without showering I didn't feel like putting on the outfit that I had planned to.
Instead I wore this (actually I wore black jeans instead of the ones in the pic):



The jacket is a Banana Republic velvet jacket that I found recently after deciding that the Eden blazer looked weird on me (I have ordered the Eden twice because I really nedeed a black jacket and ended up returning it twice). This is the same outfit with the Eden jacket:



Weird, right? Too high-waisted and short. The Banana is AWESOME in comparison, it has a much more tailored (cropped) fit and looks great with dresses AND jeans. In case you are looking for something like this, you can find it here.

While at the party, a friend of a friend (very nice guy) asked me where I got my tee because he liked the design. When I uttered "Jcrew" he couldn't believe his ears, he asked me if I was joking. He thought that Jcrew was "a catalog company" that made basics like cords and standed at the same level than Old Navy. I wanted to die, so of course I launched myself in a "Crewlogy" (Jcrew elegy? Jcrew Eulogy? You choose) and talked about the Jcrew "success story" and MO and Jenna and the store on Madison (he didn't even know that Jcrew had actual B&M stores). He didn't seem convinced, then he looked at my velvet blazer and said "OK, but this can't be Jcrew, right?". I almost lied because it could have been Jcrew, in fact it could have been the Eden that I had returned, but then admitted that it was a Banana. So maybe he won, but it was fun to speak with someone who didn't know anything about the "new" Jcrew.

We had a big snowfall last night, my daughter and husband are already outside in the snow, have a nice Sunday!