Back from Seattle and a OOTD

Hello everyone, we are back from Seattle but because our flight to NY had a seven hours delay due to mechanical problems (you know, you get into the plane and make yourself comfortable, then they tell you to get out of the plane and wait, which when you travel a toddler is particularly challenging because toddlers can't "wait") I have been a little bit more tired and jet-lagged than I should have the last two days.

Anyway, we had a great time in Seattle. The weather was as one can expect and actually colder than I thought (I traveled with my Script coat and I was happy that I had decided to take it at the last minute) but at least it didn't rain.
It was my first time in Seattle and my knowledge of the city could be reduced to two movies, "Sleepless in Seattle" (of course) and "Little Buddha" (the first part). So we did all the touristy things and we went up the space needle (my husband really wanted to do that because he had been to Seattle a couple of times before for work and he never had the time). This is one of the few pictures that I have from the trip (we had our camera with us all the time but for some reasons we didn't take a lot of pictures):



My wedding outfits worked very well (in the end I wore the Banana Republic dress at the reception and the beaded ribbon top with jeans at the rehearsal dinner). It was actually a much colorful wedding than the last one that I had attended in NY and I would say that less than half of the guests were wearing black.
My outfit to the church with the Ames dress and the Celosia cardigan (topped by the black script coat) was just perfect and I even got a compliment from someone (a man, I should add) in the bride's side whom I had never met before and who almost cried out, after eyeing me from top to toe, "That's a nice outfit!". It really was.
But I have to say that because it was the wedding of a close friend, the outfits in this case were less important than being witness of our friend's happiness that day and listening to the heartfelt speeches of the two family members (the mother of the groom came from Cameroon and the bride is from a Greek family settled in Seattle so they had jokingly called it their "big fat global wedding").

Back to NY, we slowly went back to our daily routine. Yesterday we celebrated "Mother's day" at school and I wore a casual but cute outfit with the hand-cut flower art tee:




I liked that the color of the cardigan is almost the same color of the applique flowers on the tee. The cardigan is the Featherwight rolled-up sleeves cashmere cardigan in the copper dust color (which is less reddish and more salmony IRL, almost a neutral) and I got it for a real bargain in store a couple of weeks ago (it was $54 but I had 10% off on top of it). It is currently $69 on the website and there are few colors/sizes left but I am sure that they will restock it at some point. Because it is short-sleeved it is perfect to throw on to go out in the morning when the air is still fresh.

While I was at school a friend who regularly reads this blog (and I actually met through this blog) called me from the Jcrew sample sale and asked me if I was still interested in the downtown field jacked (that I was hoping to find at the last sample sale) because they were selling it for $45. At that price I was still interested, of course, and she was so kind to pick up one in black for me. I have to say, I could have used a downtown field jacket in Seattle, my Zara windbreaker (that you can see in the first pic) wasn't heavy enough. So hint to the New Yorkers, there could still be a downtown field jacket waiting for you at the sample sale if you are looking for one. These are from the stock and aren't defective (they only have a black mark on the inner tag to prevent in-store returns).

Coming up a review of the Cozumel tunic and a very unexpected purchase...