The Casbah Paisley Collection Is Here

You probably remember the green paisley romper from the JCrew Spring Lookbook. As many of you I was eagerly awaiting to see that print in stores, as to me it was the highlight of the summer Collection.
Well, it is finally here. It is called "Casbah Paisley" and so far has been made into a perfect shirt, a short-sleeved blouse, a strapless dress, a cotton tunic, a couple of swimsuits and a scarf. I previewed some of these items yesterday at the Collection store and except they are all available on the website as of this morning. Quite strangely the romper, that was showcased as the highlight of the collection, wasn't in store (but it is available online here.

I had high hopes for the dress (featured in the new May Catalog) because I have an occasion to wear it this summer but it was disappointing. I usually do well with strapless styles but the fit of this one was off and gave me the pregnant look (and I don't need a $198 dress that makes me look pregnant, thank you very much). This is the 0:

You can already see that it wasn't extremily flattering from the front but wait for the side pic. I look 6 month pregnant:

Now you know why in the Catalog they show it with a belt under the bodice. But I really don't know how anyone could wear a belt around the ribcage in real life. I hope that it works for someone else, because it is such a beautiful print for a dress. Now that the dress is out of the question, I could actually go with that romper!

The perfect shirt was much better. It is the typical silk-cotton lawn blend of their summer perfect shirts and it is particularly suited to this striking print, it looked very breezy. I usually don't buy the summer perfect shirts because it gets too warm here to wear something silk and long-sleeved but I might go with this one or the blouse as I want something in this print (I was joking about the romper, I think I have exceeded the expiration date for wearing rompers). This is a size 2 (I am usually a 0 and it fits a little bit "relaxed" so I would say TTS):

The cotton tunic looks promising, even if a little bit overpriced at $88 (this is catalog only, so I couldn't see it IRL):

As I said before, they also made a beautiful swimsuit collection and scarf in this print. I saw the scarf in the store and I thought it was linen but I see on the website that it is actually wool (boo!):

I also tried some other stuff but I wanted to share this first. Stay tuned for more new arrivals pics!

What do you think? Are you shopping the Casbah Collection?