JCrew January Catalog: IRL Pics

Last Saturday I needed to get out of the house, so I went to a couple of stores just to try the new stuff on and take pics to post, which I haven't done in a while because I am always wearing layers and layers of clothes and I get easily impatient these days. I wasn't particularly interested in any of the new items (especially when they are full price and there are such great deals to be found in the sale section) but you never know. Plus I am starting to look at resort clothes because we are taking a vacation at the end of the month and even if I don't need anything, I like to look at vacation clothes and to buy one new piece every year to mark each vacation (last year winter vacation for example was marked by the Boden tunic that you have seen here).

But first, for those of you who have still months of cold weather ahead, they had a new very cozy cashmere sweater that I don't see online. It is very thick and it retails for $295. It wasn't very flattering but it was very good quality cashmere, so I thought I would share:




I tried a few summer dresses. First, the much talked about Shelby dress. This dress doesn't do anything for me and makes my mid-section appear wider. Plus it is sloppy in the chest area. I am trying my regular size (0):




The following is similar but much cuter IMO and also more expensive ($178). It is a black shift dress where the skirt portion is cotton and the top portion is a different material (that I forgot to look up but probably something like silk organza). Trying a 0 (fits perfectly):



Exposed zip in the back:



The Striped drawstring dress, which is a knit, was really unflattering on me (pardon my pants, I had tried it on another occasion and was too lazy to take boots and pants off. I have the Marin dress from lat year so I wasn't interested in purchasing this). This is a XS (fits TTS, no need to size down, IMO):



The next one was my favorite. Really a well-made dress and so comfortable to wear, but I will pass at $148. It is store-only for the time-being (style # is 33975 and the color is dark charcoal even if it looked more like a faded navy) and I am trying a 2 as the 0 was sold-out (I would need a 0, the 2 was definitively big everywhere):



The Lace Dobby skirt was a real surprise because I really, really liked it. I had read somewhere that the fit was the same than the wednesday skirt from last year, but it isn't because it is a A-line skirt (even if mini). I tried both the 0 and the 2 and I found the 2 to be more flattering without being too big:



Another skirt where I sized up is the following one. I thought that it was available online and I didn't take note of the style number (it retails for $88 or $98). Such a beautiful print, completely ruined by the bubble hem:



It was funny to see that the caprese tunic is back (for $49.50. I still see it pop back for 14.99). I tried it just to see if this time around it fits smaller. Well, no. This is a XS (but it now also comes in XXS):



I kind of liked the outfit though ;-). Third and last mini, this lace one that I also thought was online but can't find. I tried it because I liked how it was styled in the stores but I didn't like it on me, it flairs out in a bad way and I felt like a cupcake. Can't remember if I tried a 0 or a 2:



The shirt is the lovely Indian voile boy shirt. I ws interested in seeing the blue seashore color but the stores only had the strawberry and the indigo, that I'am trying here in my regular size 0 (fits TTS). It was very lightweight but not sheer:



This will probably be a sale purchase for me in the blue seashore color (the strawberry will be very nice too when the weather warms up).
A couple of days before I had tried, the Selvedge Eleanor Popover that had caught my eye since it came out. I liked the fit but not $98 liked it. It is a little bit plain but denim on denim is a difficult look to pull off and maybe I would have liked it more had I tried it with something with more contrast. This is the XS:




Next, I tried the chambray belmarin pant that is not online yet. It was TTS to a little bit small IMO. I find it to be just OK, nothing to talk home about:




That's about it for now. Any question let me know. Do you like anything here or in general from this rollout?