Current Obsession: Peter Pan Collar (And Zara Finds)

I am a little bit high today (a shopping high, that is) and I have plenty of stuff to blog about. So many in fact that I don't know where to start, so I will start by the beginning. Bear with me!

A while ago, when Bloomingdales had their F&F event, I bought a Sandro sweater that was one of the highlights of the Fall/Winter Sandro collection, as seen in this image from the ad campaign:

Many of you have probably never heard about Sandro (unless you read and remember my post here where I was already obsessing about peter pan collars and Sandro), because the brand just launched this fall in the US market, first with a standalone boutique at Bloomingdales and then with a store (just opened) on Bleeker Street, but it is well established brand in France and that image above is in every French magazine. The sweater with the leopard-print Peter Pan collar sold out in a blink (it was also available at net-a-porter) but I happened to be at Bloomingdales after someone had returned one in my size (and with 20% off on top of it). It was expensive, even with the 20% off, but it is very special with that leopard collar and felt so "me" that I thought that it was worth the splurge.

The sweater is a pretty substantial, almost boiled, wool and so far it has been too mild here to wear it, even if occasionally I wore it in front of the mirror (now this is strange, I thought I had taken pics but I just can't find them and I don't want to delay this post; in any case the sweater looks on me exactly like on the model, with the difference that I can't wear brogues and men's socks with a skirt).
I really love it but when I rationalize the purchase I have to admit that I love the leopard Peter Pan collar more than the sweater itself. It is a lot to pay for a Peter Pan collar and I started to look for alternatives to copy the look without spending the money on the sweater. I found at H&M a cheap peter pan collar tee and I tried it under my grey cashmere sweater by Zadig and Voltaire (for the French touch). The effect is pretty amazing:

This is the H&M tee and I wouldn't recommend it to wear it alone, it is quite shapeless/stretchy/bad quality:

So I tried to convince myself that I didn't need a $250 leopard-print peter pan collar and one day last week I took the Sandro sweater to Bloomingdale's determined to return it, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it (I even went to the register at the Sandro store and asked if it went on sale, hoping for a yes and a price adjustment. But no sale). That leopard Peter Pan collar was too hard to give up on!

This morning I had planned to checkout the JCrew sample sale that started today in NYC. But instead of going directly after dropoff I lingered at home and when I arrived there (still before the opening) the line was CRAZY. I took a peek inside and saw that it was classic hit or miss sample sale stuff, so I didn't bother (I guess that those who were first in the line got some great deals but it wasn't worth the wait to me).
Now, I am so happy that the line was so long that it scared me off because all of a sudden I had nowhere to go and I started to walk on Fifth Avenue, until I magically ended up in a Zara. I always forget to checkout Zara because I don't have one close to my place and I don't make special trips there, like I do for JCrew. Oh Zara, how could I forget thou? If you are looking for a knockoff or a trend that comes from Europe it's the first place to go. And in fact they had peter pan collars galore. I almost died when I saw this:

Zara blouse with Peter Pan collar (buy here)

That's exactly what I was looking for, the solution of my dilemma, and if you have ever experienced this you can understand that I was holding my breath while I frantically looked through the blouses on the rack for my size. I am typically a S in Zara, rarely a XS and while there was no XS, there were two blouses in a size S. I think that the XS would have pulled on my chest, so I happily bought the S.
This blouse is less easy to wear under a crewneck because the fabric is more substantial than the H&M tee (I can't wear it under my grey cashmere sweater for example, even if I tried it with the cashmere cable sweater by Jcrew and it works) but it is very pretty worn alone. Here it is:

While I was at Zara a zillion things caught my eye since I hadn't been there in a while but I ended up buying only the leopard collar blouse and this tie-neck blouse, vaguely reminiscent of the Jcrew Bonnie blouse (I can't find it online but check back if you are interested). The color is a deep bottle green, simply TDF (it is totally sheer, so I am wearing it with a nude cami):

If I am not wrong the Bonnie has a mandarin collar (which in general I don't like), while this one has a rounded collar, even if teeny (not sure if it can still be called Peter Pan in this case):

It has the same colors than my favorite jacket by JCrew, the Tatum tweed jacket from last year:

And the sexy-ness of undoing that tie? Priceless...

More Peter Pan collars opations at Zara:
Top with contrasting collar (I tried this one and it's very well made but the tulle sleeves are very skinny)
Horse print shirt I haven't tried this one but I saw it and it's beautiful
Blouse with Peter Pan collar This is the white/black version of the blouse that I bought. The material felt slightly different, more fluid. I tried the XS and fit perfectly withought being too tight on the chest (it wasn't sheer and it is a true white)
Combined dotted Swiss blouse This should fit the same, but I believe it is very sheer.

So I think that I will finally be able to return the Sandro sweater without regrets. What do you think that I should do with the H&M blouse? Keep it to wear it with my grey sweater like in the pictures above or return it?
Is there anybody else obsessed with Peter Pan collars out there?