Slub Cotton isn't Only for Tees

To be honest with you the word "slub" doesn't mean anything to me and when I tell you that I am wearing a "slub cotton" tee I really don't know what I am talking about. I mean, I have come to recognize a slub cotton tee (if someone were running an experience and asked me to point to the slub cotton one from a display of five different tees I would point to the correct one), but if you ask me why it is called "slub", I really can't tell as the word slub doesn't conjure up any image in my brain. How is it possible, you may ask. Well, when you live in a foreign country, you have to make some compromises and in my case that's living in a rather imprecise world where words sometimes don't mean anything. I would say that I understand about 70% of what I hear and read, but the remaining 30% is a rather blurred universe where I have to constantly fill gaps if I want to make sense of it. It's the linguistic equivalent of being short-sighted, I guess, and I have come to terms with this condition. The truth is, in a million years I will never speak and understand the English language as a native speaker so just let's be it. Sometimes a dictionary is my best friend, sometimes it doesn't help and I am left in my linguistic fog.

All this to say that I have no idea why the shirt that is the subject of this post is called "slub cotton perfect shirt". It carries no resemblances to a slub cotton tee, which my only term of comparison. And I think that what makes it quite special is the Tencel component of the fabric. I have never seen anything like this shirt before: it is as if the fabric has been slightly (not uncomfortably) waxed, if it makes sense. This isn't something that you can see but only feel at the touch, so I think that it's worth mentioning for those who are nowhere near a store. With the current 20% promo, the price of this shirt comes down to $32 which is quite a good price. I had tried it at the beginning of the season in store and loved it but I waited for it to go on sale as I didn't really "need" it. This shade of light blue is very summery and because it is a perfect shirt the fit is just ... perfect. It is a great alternative to the contrast-stitches perfect shirt from last year if you have missed it.

This is how I wore it this morning, with madras bermudas (these are from AE and I bought them post-pregnancy, so now I can only wear them belted or very low on the waist but I still love them):



And this is how I am going to wear it later this afternoon (I have another "wine" playdate), with white jeans and TB silver sandals:




When I first wore the shirt this morning, my daughter said "Why are you wearing daddy's shirt?" as she almost never sees me wearing button-ups and it is true that it can have a little "office wear" feeling to it, especially when the collar is not wide open and I guess that you can wear it under a suit. Personally I like it because it of its crispness and I think that it can be dressed down as well as I showed you here. You can see the always stylish Tabitha wearing this same look here.

I am almost done with the LA pics but I am sure that I will come home tipsy from the playdate and won't be able to post anything tonight!