Rambling about the Oscars and S is for Stripes (or Spring)

Good morning ladies! Wow, we are almost at the end of week, time has flown for me.

Did you watch the Oscars on Sunday night? Through the end, I mean. I did, but boy, were they boring, and even if I could just watch James Franco over and over I must admit that he wasn't the best host (there is a fun thread over at Jezibel where people who "don't get James Franco" ask what's about him. Personally, besides the cuteness factor, I just like that his career went seamlessly from sweetheart to gay activist and stoned drug-dealer). I know that people think he looks stoned all the time but I think than Christian Bale looked even more stoned this award season (he takes something, right?)
Oh, and did you get Justin Timberlake joke ("I am Bansky")? Honestly, I had to Google it. I thought it was sme sort of sex joke directed towards his partner, the beautiful Mila Kunis whom Justin has been reported to aggressively court (she did looked a little bit pissed, didn't she?) That was the best moment of the show, along with Kirk Douglas pausing before giving away the Best Acress in a Supporting Role award (much better than the F word uttered by Oscar winner Melissa Leo).
Speaking of awards, I was soooo disappointed that "The King's Speech" won over "The Social Network" and that David Fincher didn't get an Oscar for Best Director (seriously!). I loved "The Social Network", it is an important movie for our times that perfectly describes in a very minimalistic way that technology and the shift to virtual relationships can't replace real friendship (BTW, yesterday night I watched another movie starring Andrew Garfield, who played Eduardo in the Social Network. The movie is "Never Let Me Go" and I really reccomend it, if you are up for some serious but meaningful sadness. Now I want to read the book by Kazuo Ishiguro, who, incidentally, also wrote another masterpiece brought to the screen years ago, "The Remains of the Day"). And what about "Inception" not getting best screenplay? Come on, Academy!

The Oscars were a little bit boring even from a fashion point of view, IMO. None of the dresses really wowed me, besides the Gwyneth Paltrow "liquid gold" Calvin Klein number (I would have totally worn that). Did you notice that there were much more sequins than at the Golden Globes? I thought that it would have been a good year to wear JCrew to the Oscars. I also really liked Annette Benning (I always like her and she is such an articulate speaker). My daughter (who watched the red carpet arrivals with me) liked Mandy Moore, she asked if she was a princess ;-).

Anyway, the following are two much less glamourous outfits that I wore this week. You know that I love stripes and my wearing stripes in this deceptively cold first week of March can be considered as an attempt to call for spring (a little bit like the opposite of a rain dance).
The first outfit is a Gap sweater that I bought on sale ($19) around the holidays (you have seen it in one of my Gap fitting room pics back in the Fall). I LOVE this sweater, it is a substantial cotton perfect for our spring weather and I wore it quite a lot around the house already but I broke it out for the first time last Tuesday, with a tissue turtleneck underneath (you can see I was ready for school, as I was wearing the school badge):

Yesterday I wore another striped top, the Loft hoodie that I bought before going on vacation in January. I love this one too and I got to wear it quite a lot already under my black cashmere henley, like yesterday:

Third striped top that I haven't worn yet because I bought it with the 30% off last week and was just delivered to my door is the striped painter tee. I really recommend this one now that it's on sale, it's extremely flattering (fits TTS). I tried it with another item that I received in the same order, the lovely cotton bell skirt in faded black. As a matter of fact I don't have a black casual skirt for the summer and I really liked this one in the two other colors when I tried it on, so I decided that $35 was a price that I was willing to pay and be in peace with even if it goes further down. I am glad that I did because it is still $49.50 in store and it is almost sold out in my size. Shopping at JCrew really feels like gambling these days. It is 17" long so I didn't have to size up and ordered my segular size 0. The striped tee is a XS:

Did you watch the Oscars? Do you agree with the Academy? Who was your personal best dressed? And, most and foremost, do you get James Franco?

I have more new arrivals pics (went back yesterday) including the lace lady popover and the Oleander lace dress. Stay tuned!