Fitting Room Pics Brought You By Sick Child

I had great plans for today since it was my daughter's first day back to school after the (extra-long) winter break: my favorite gym class (a mix of core fusion and cardio, where you really sweat it out) right after drop-off, then grocery shopping and a stop at the Collection store where I have something on hold; some ironing and then as a reward a (long due) mani-pedi.
But my daughter is sick with a bad ear infection so I am stuck home with a grumpy child (who is sleeping now) and I am officially bored to death. So if you want to do a good action today, leave a comment to this post and save me from myself (when I am bored to death I do stupid things like clicking on every possible site until I find something to buy that I will regret the day after).

I had these fitting room pics of a few new arrivals since... last year but it seems that so far I had more urgent things to say and do than posting them. Thanks to my daughter and my subsequent boredom I am finally going to post them. I have a request though: don't laugh. It was snowing outside that day and I was wearing my heaviest clothes so many of these pics mix resort wear with ski wear! Mind you, that could be perfectly fine with Gayle and her acolytes and actually a PS at the store suggested that I pair the scroll print shorts with a cashmere turtleneck. I don't know where you are supposed to go exactly in a pair of shorts and a cashmere turtleneck but it didn't seem to bother her that THERE IS NO PLACE ON PLANET EARTH IN ANY SEASON for such an outfit. Unless she meant that I should wear the shorts with tights and boots which gives me the opportunity to make a digression. Please, PS united, could you give me a break on the "wear it now with boots, wear later with sandal" thing? I don't want to wear summer clothes with boots, I have enough WINTER clothes to wear with boots and I don't even wear those BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE TO WEAR BOOTS in the first please. Yep, we exist, people who don't like boots. See, I am grumpy too!

Now, moving on, here are said shorts in a size 2. They fit pretty TTS and I actually liked the print much better on the shorts than on the Jules dress. The yellow is definitively more golden on the shorts than on the dress and there is little beige-pink (which I find odd in the dress):

I always regretted buying shorts too early in the season (not only they invariably go on sale before you can even think of wearing them but weight fluctuations make them an especially risky ahead-of-the-season purchase) but I am going to Miami again this year for President's Day in February and I am considering them for the trip. I just have to figure out if I can pull them off other than on vacation. They are short but they don't feel that short on, if you know what I mean (I don't feel very exposed, maybe because the fabric is rather stiff).

Next is the Jules in the botanical print (I couldn't try the Jules in the scroll print because they were out of small sizes but I can tell you that it is made of the same thin silk than the Blythe blouse and not a silk twill like the botanical one. It is so thin that the first time that I touched it I thought it was unlined, when in fact it is partially lined in poly as all the Jules. With exception that the poly in this case is the one that mimics silk chiffon and not the heavier one that is similar to acetate. Are you still following?)
I tried this dress on for our friend DaniBP, who had asked me for some advice. As you know Dani ordered this dress and had a thoroughly review up on her blog so I will only add a fact that could be useful to some of you if you are still considering this dress. The Jules, as we all know, is a short dress silhouette but this one is about one inch and a half longer than the scroll print one (and, as far as I know, the other Jules) as I found out comparing the two of them in the same size at the store (it looked longer already on the hanger).
Demonstration: I tried a 00 (again, they didn't have a 0) and while it was overall a tad small and pulling a bit on my hips, it was still longer on me than my Jules in Italian paisley (that I own in a size 0, my "Jules" size). In fact it is almost knee-length on me (as a reminder I am 5'2"), while my other Jules hits me mid-thigh:

In case you haven't seen Dani's post yet, this is a close-up of the print which is beautiful and has much more blue in it than I could tell when I looked at it on the website:

It is partially lined in white poly:

I also tried a few cover-ups but I can't post the pics on the account of sheerness. However, I wanted to show you one that I really liked and is not on the website. It is a long kaftan in lightweight cotton. Completely overpriced at $98 but I would consider for half the price or less (I am trying a XXS):

As you can see from the pic above I also tried the sheer stripe tunic and while I loved it on the hanger it disappointed on. It looked very ordinary and the v-neck is much lower than the tunic above, which makes it a no-go to wear as a tunic over jeans (even with a cami).

Ok, that's all I tried. My little patient woke up so I am going to go. If you have any comment about these that you want to share, please do!