Two OOTD with the Casbah Paisley Perfect Shirt

I wore my Casbah paisley perfect shirt a few times in the past weeks. At first I was at a loss as I didn't know what to pair it with but it was still too cold to wear it alone or with the matching shorts. The following outfits are nothing extraordinary but I want to show you that grey is a very good match for the shirt and tones it down a bit while the contrast with navy make the bright colors in it even more vibrant.

I wore it the first time with my matchstick jeans, grey accessories (grey patent jeans belt and driving mocs) and the grey cadabra cardigan left open:

Last Friday I wore it with my Gap navy blazer and it looked very polished:

While I was out and about it started raining and I didn't have an umbrella with me. I waited in a store for the rain to stop (how convenient) but at some point I had to go because I had to pickup my daughter at school and my blazer was completely wet when I got home. So I swapped it for a Jackie in navy and I liked the outfit even better:

I am not a Jackie person (I only have three in basic colors), probably because I don't wear this kind of shirts that much but I am considering buying the organic green one to wear with this shirt and also with my Rebecca Taylor dress.

How do you wear the Casbah print perfect shirt?

Have a good one!

OOTD (Where I Reveal One of My Purchases) and OOTE (The Most Glamorous ER Outfit Ever)

So only mrs.anketell got this one right, sort of. I am surprised because the checkered dress is so "me" and so made for my lifestyle that I thought you would have guessed this one.

Anyway, I broke it out on Friday already (a sign of love) to go to the playground with my daughter. We stopped at the Collection store to make some returns and every single people in the store (not only the SAs) complimented me on it. The only hesitation that I had with this dress is that I was afraid to look like a little girl myself but people don't seem to receive it that way. I only saw looks of appreciation and well-meaning smiles while I was strolling with my daughter, but I have to say that people are forgiving about childish-looking outfits when you are with a little kid in toe. So I recommend it to all the moms out there (and it's playground-friendly).

When I bought the dress and I was trying to think what I would pair it with, I thought that it was just about time to buy a Jackie cardigan in navy (as you now I have a lot of navy in my closet, but not a single summer cardigan in this color) and that's how I wore the dress on Friday in the early morning (later in the day it got too hot for the Jackie):




I got a 0 in this dress even if it is a little bit roomy at the waist on me but the 00 was too short and uncomfortable around the armpits. The bag is my Longchamp "Le Pliage" in white, the perfect bag for strolling around on a summer day (even if it gets dirty very easily). I apologize for the slippers that peek out in the pic: in reality I wore my driving mocs because I couldn't locate my white sandals and I was at a loss. So I think that now I really need those navy Tory Burch Sally peep-toes, what do you think?

And now on with the second outfit. Yesterday night I was invited to a party to celebrate our best friends' 15th Wedding Anniversary (I know, you normally don't throw a party for the 15th Anniversary, but they love parties and so do I!) My husband left for a business trip yesterday after lunch so he couldn't attend but I wasn't too bothered by the fact of going alone because I just love them and a lot of my mom friends would be there. The party was held at a very nice restaurant where that had rented a private room with live music to accompany the meal and dance after. The perfect party, I tell you.
As soon as I received the invitation, I knew what I was going to wear: the dress that I wore for my 40th bday party. My long-time followers will remember it from my post last summer. I love this dress but because is very noticeable is the kind of dress that you don't wear twice around the same people (and that's why I didn't consider wearing it for the wedding in Seattle, as the groom was one of the guests at my birthday party and I thought it would be disrespectful to wear at his wedding). But none of yesterday night guests was invited to my party last year (as they are new friends), so it was the perfect occasion to wear it again. I put on my best "dancing shoes" (a pair of silver snakeskin sandals with a medium-height stacked heel):



So I was all dressed up waiting for the the babysitter to arrive and my daughter was sitting at the table all quiet. All of a sudden she started to cry and at the beginning I didn't understand why she was crying (I have to say that she is scared of little bugs and she bursts in tears very easily so I thought that she had just seen a fly or something). But when she started to point to her nose I immediately understood that she had stuffed something up her there (after inspection it turned out to be the cap of a toy that had a small water tank and that she was able to take out). I was between panicked and terribly angry with her for ruining my evening, one of those time when you regret the day when you had the bad idea to have a child. After trying for fifteen minutes to take it out her nose with a Tweezers, where the only result was that it got even higher up, I gave up and I decided to take her to the ER. In my outfit (but I changed my shoes). The babysitter arrived just when I was running to stop a taxi, so I asked her to wait in case it wouldn't take long because I was still hoping to be able to go to the party.
The last time that I was at the ER I waited for 4 hours only to be admitted, but this time we were lucky and when we got there there was only another patient before us, so we were admitted after fifteen minutes or so. The doctor was able to take the cap out in just one try with a hooked little stick (I should have asked him where I could get one of those for the next time) and actually the wait for a cab (Saturday night around 9 pm in NYC) took longer than our stay in the emergency room.
In the end I could go to the party, even if I was very late and I made an entrance a la Carrie Bradshaw as everybody was seated and looked at me (I arrived just before they started to serve dinner, that was delicious by the way, one of the best meals that I ever had). I had a very pleasant night out but what an adventure!

My husband is on a week-long business trip, so stay tuned for more posts to come.
Have a nice Sunday!

An Outfit with the Already Famous Jaipur Skirt

Last week I went to JCrew to return some stuff and as I walked into the store I saw that they had a new skirt in the same fabric of the Jaipur tunic. Because the tunic didn't work for me but I loved the print, I immediately grabbed the skirt and even if I wasn't 100% convinced I decided to bring it home with me and try it in better conditions (like, with heels instead of loafers). This past weekend everybody was talking about this skirt on the JCA blog, and I am happy that I bought it before hearing all the buzz about it (at least I know that I didn't buy it out of fear of missing out on it, as sometimes happens with popular items).

I am a little bit surprised that the skirt has so many fans actually because the style is the same than the Tie dyed Wednesday skirt and I was under the impression by reading the comments left by other JCAs that there wasn't a consensus on it (but I must be wrong because I see that it is almost sold-out now on the website).
Anyway, in case you are wondering, the Jaipur skirt too is short, short, short. Even shorter than the wednesday skirt because for some reasons it tends to sit even higher on the waist (at least on me) and pouch more because it is linen. But unlike the wednesday skirt, it doesn't look good belted, IMO.
These are the pics from the fitting room, with the white popover that I was wearing that day (you can see that this time I decided that I would rather be barefoot than try it with the loafers):




Once home, I tried to pair it with something that I have. It is an easy skirt for sure and it can be worn with a simple tee, as the print is stunning by itself (this is the painter scoopneck tee from last summer, bought for very cheap):



My champagne Jackie is a good match (the color of the skirt is more ivory than white):



In the pics above I was wearing the Cate slingbacks from last spring but I'm going to wear it more with flats. I loved it with my Miu Miu embellished peep-toe flats from last year:



Now, I have been invited to a private jewelry event at the Collection store this Thursday, with cocktails and the JCrew jewelry designer Lisa Finkelstein (it's the first time ever, since I am not a cardmember and these events are usually reserved to cardholders, and when the SA handed me the invitation I felt like I had won at the lottery) and I was planning to wear this skirt (weather permitting) with an old DVF cropped jacket (that I bought a few years ago at a sample sale and I almost put on ebay because I thought that I wouldn't wear it any longer) and the bauble necklace in soft violet:




I hope that this post was useful to those who have heard about this skirt without seeing it IRL (it is store-only for the time being)!

What do you think of this skirt? Would you buy it after seeing it in these pics? Do you think that it's too short on me? Do you like the outfit that I plan to wear?