Some Lilly Fun

As I mentionned in my previous post, one of the few post-holidays sales I partook in this year is the Lilly Pulitzer two-day sale last week. Sales at Lilly Pulitzer.com take place only twice a year (in January and late August) and last only two days, then everything that is not sold-out goes back to full price or is removed from the website. So if you are interested in something in particular this is your only shot at getting it for a reduced price, at least on the website (you can get pretty good deals in store year-round but that's another story). It is also one of the rare occasions where they offer free shipping no minimum, so it is worth it to throw in some non-sale items to try out.

The first day I had a good look at the sale but couldn't pull the trigger on anything because many of the items heavily reduced in price were marked final sale (it's a retailers pleague!) and I wasn't stalking anything in particular. I went quickly to the store the morning after to try something that was tempting me but I decided that I didn't need it after all. So in the end I pulled the trigger on one item that I had tried a long ago in store but decided that I would get only at a deep discount (I also ordered some of their fleeces and a dress for my daughter. Love when I can get some mini-Lillys for the price of a Gap on sale) and wasn't final sale.
It's a little funky jacket called "Sylvia" (as I said it has been removed from the Lilly website and it is back to FP at Splashes of Pink, which is a Lilly signature store):

First, let me tell you that they price that they asked for this ($228) is absolutely crazy IMO, being a knit. I got it for $59 and I wouldn't have paid much more (in fact when I tried it in store it was already on sale for $79 and it wasn't a price that I was willing to pay at that time). But for $59 I am happy to add something unusual to my closet.
I got it in this brown/ivory colorway, which is the color that I had tried in store. It also came in a navy/pink colorway (with a smaller-scaled print) but I have more than enough navy jackets. What really pushed me to get it is that I have now the perfect dress to wear with it, a recent acquisition that I got on sale at Joe Fresh (I have the same one in burgundy too, as some of you will remember):

This was already cheap at full price ($39) and was only $19 on sale (when it sold-out I really regretted not getting it at full price, but one day I found this one on sale, probably a return. I really had zero hopes to find it but it paid to go in often just to check because you never know). By the way, I don't know what's going on with the lining being longer than the dress itself but for $19 I thought I would find a solution (even if I have to have the lining hemmed).
The dress is a year-round dress (because of the lining and quite substantial weigth) but I was afraid that I wouldn't know what to wear with it in fall/winter time (thus, my not buying it when it was FP). I found that this jacket really complements it and all of a sudden I have a no-brainer outfit ready, which makes the dress much more weareable:

And yes, those are shoes on the jacket! Funky, as I said. Because of the print, the big ivory button and the collar shape, it has a vintage-y feeling, like something that you would find at a thrift store:

As I said, I wouldn't probably have bought it if I hadn't found the dress on sale. It does look good with pants and jeans but I don't need another pants jacket, as pretty much all my jackets are pants jackets. This is with my toothpick cords, for example:

I am really happy with this "find". At least it isn't another schoolboy blazer ;-). If it weren't for the problem with the lining of the dress, I would wear it tonight to a school event and then out to dinner with friends.
Instead I am going to wear a much more serious outfit (the dress is by the Loft, the jacket is an old Zara from the time when I worked in an office and the necklace is a Majorica pearls necklace that I won at the school benefit auction last year). Yes, I am pretending to be a layer or something (just kidding but you will agree that it doesn't look like something that I usually wear):

What do you think of my funky jacket? Would you wear a jacket with shoes on it? Did you partake in the Lilly sale last week? Please share!