OOTD (Spring Is In The Air)

Good morning everybody, I hope that you had a great President's Day weekend. I came back from Miami last night very late and I am still under the effect of a very enjoyable if not exactly relaxing vacation. We had gorgeous weather the whole time, definitively too hot for merino (Dominique, you were right!) or even anything with sleeves during the day (at least until Monday, then it got a little bit more windy thus chillier in the shadow but we are still talking high 70s).
I was impressed by the service and overall beauty of the hotel but the downside was that we were very far from South Beach (like 35-45 minutes by car) so we got a little bit lazy and we didn't se as much as I would have liked to (the taxi ride was very expensive, even if the hotel had a free shuttle) and we only went one night for dinner (quite a disaster because my friend's kids were jet-lagged and sleepy and we ended up in a very touristy place where they charged us $150 for three heated-up pizzas. In fact eating out with three kids turned out to be more challenging than I thought and the culinary highlight of the trip was when we had dinner at a local Cuban restaurant called Little Havana, that was good but in the middle of nowhere) and yesterday, when we spent the whole morning strolling up and down Lincoln Road (where my italian friend spent a euro-fortune but not at JCrew). On the other side the pool and the beach at the hotel were awesome, it wasn't like being in a city at all, and I would go back in a minute. This is one of the few pictures that we took at the hotel (you are going to recognize the fanfare swimsuit, which was perfect for the hotel and Miami. I wear a size 4 in JCrew swimsuits):

Luckily for me it isn't too cold in NY, in fact we expect temperatures as high as 58 degrees today and 60 tomorrow, so the transition isn't that bad and I can actually make the vacation mood last by wearing a spring-y outfit:

Isn't it a great spring shirt? I rarely buy this kind of shirt but the colors were too good to pass, they put me in a good mood. I also like the fit a lot, very long and tailored so that I can both tuck it in and untuck it (in fact I amabig tucker-in but in this case I prefer it untucked). The best of all is the price, only $29 at Joe Fresh and it is a very nice Oxford cotton (it should still be in the stores if you are in NYC). When it is warmer I plan to wear it alone or with a blazer, like the schoolboy summer stripe from last year:

Now, can you believe that this blazer popped back last week during the 30% off promo and I just received it, in perfect condition? I jumped on it since I tried to buy it on sale with no success last summer. It was only $48 so I decided that it was worth to pay the shipping instead of trying to figure out what else to add to the order and risk that it would fly off my cart. So never lose hope on something that is soldout because they always come back, that's how JCrew keep our interest alive! OK, gotta go now. I promise that the Luccas review is coming up next.