Veda for the Women’s Prison Association tee (small)
Eileen Fisher organic cotton jeans (size 4)
Vince Blair sneakers
Wearing/Buying
On the way to Kentucky last week with my mom we stopped in Nashville since I saw that Elizabeth Suzann had extended their in-person market. I did actually buy two pairs of pants, because I was caught up in being able to try things on in person, but they were both short length, and I forgot that the short length doesn’t work well on me IRL, so I sold them yesterday. But while I was there, I asked if I could try on any Clyde jackets they might have laying around to get a better feel for my size. I tried the Clyde trench, cotton canvas, in small and the Clyde jacket in linen, in XS and loved them both. They are both so different, and good for different things/outfits, so I’ll get the cotton canvas trench now and the linen jacket next year. I was mostly nervous about the pockets being too deep and that my short arms wouldn’t be able to reach to the bottoms, but they weren’t, they were perfect!!
I’m so excited to finally order the clyde trench (I’m getting it in clay cotton canvas) and now with the wait times down to 4-5 weeks I should maybe get it by my birthday? or shortly after? WHOA. Nevermind, I forgot we are already in October. So not by November 2, but maybe the week after?? WHERE DID OCTOBER COME FROM?? it doesn’t feel like October…
Reading/Watching
Why Does So Much Ethical Fashion Look The Same? – this is a sentiment that seems to always be just underneath any discussions or articles, and blogs about “ethical” fashion. It is true, if you look at instagram and most “ethical” fashion blogs then yes, you would think that everyone looks the same, but there is so much more to ethical fashion than what we see on instagram. In fact, it frustrates me that that seems to be a given in this article – like, if it’s not on instagram, it doesn’t exist. IMO, the opposite is true. I will have more to say on this next week, and I’ll put together my own ideas about ethical fashion and feature some of the many brands I consider ethical and responsible that don’t shy away from color or patterns.
NPR’s 100 Favorite Horror Stories – I’m picking out books here and there to add to my reading list. I LOVE horror books and movies, although I’ve gotten away from them lately for some reason. I read The Bird Box a couple years ago and I LOVED it; it was so scary, and I think about it often. I’ve also read a lot of the classics on the list, and the Joe Hill book (Joe Hill is Stephen King’s son). I’m a HUGE HUGE HUGE Stephen King and Dean Koontz fan. I prefer Stephen King’s later books like The Stand to his earlier ones (The Stand is one of the very best books ever written IMO), and Dean Koontz’s earlier books to his later ones FWIW.
Randomly I ordered Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life this morning after reading about it on Brain Pickings. I can’t wait to read it.
Doing
Cuddling with this one as often as possible.
Leo and I are going to see Small Town Murder live tonight and I’m excited/anxious about it haha. I think it will be fun, but it’s a big weekend for “stuff” here in DFW which means traffic and people and UGH.
Otherwise I’m looking forward to eating from the fall menu at True Food Kitchen this weekend, and catching up on more reading. Maybe I’ll start quilting my quilt.
How was your week? What are you doing this weekend?
Have you read The Outsider? I loved it. Felt very old-school Stephen King. Also loved the Mr. Mercedes trilogy. Do you like the jk Rowling/Galbraith books? The new one – Lethal White – is amazing. And Tana French’s new one will be released on Tuesday. Have a great weekend 🙂
oh, i was waiting for the outsider to be released last year i think. and then i forgot about it LOL – thanks for reminding me!!
i did like the mr. mercedes trilogy.
i’ve never read jk rowling (i know..)
i do like tana french though, so i’ll look for her new one.
Thanks for all the great recommendations!!!!
I LOVE True Food Kitchen. It’s one of my favorite places to eat, and this coming Sunday we are hosting a post-wedding brunch there for some close buddies. I signed up for a free Barre class that they’re having onsite in their restaurant on Sun morning too, so it’s gonna be exercise and then eat! 🙂
Have you read Mr.Mercedes by Stephen King? I thought that one was pretty scary. I did not know his son was a writer as well so now i’ll have to look him up!
i had no idea the Mr.Mercedes was a Trilogy (just read above replies!)
yeah, i think mr. mercedes was the best of the three, but it’s worth finishing them all..
do you have flower child also? it’s their “cafe”/sister restaurant that I also love – that’s where i take myself for lunch once a week. but true food is basically the only other place i eat out because i can trust their food. AND it’s amazing.
they do free yoga before brunch on sundays here but i don’t do hot yoga anymore LOL – it’s been too hot to do anything outside for months!!
I’ve been mulling over ordering a Clyde jacket in linen, so I’m interested that you’d order the XS. Was there a huge difference between the XS and Small, especially if one maybe wanted to layer things underneath? Did the linen seem larger than the canvas trench you tried? (I thought the big difference between the jacket and trench was the length, so I’d would have expected the same size to work for both.)
The jacket looks fairly voluminous, and I was thinking of sizing down, since I’m small through the shoulders and upper body and don’t want to swim in it, and I also don’t want to wait for an exchange if I get the size wrong.
i have to qualify all this by saying that i tried on the small in the cotton canvas trench and the XS in the linen jacket because that’s what was available to try on. i did not try on any other sizes in the jackets.
THAT SAID. i was really happy with how each of them fit. The small in the clyde trench seemed like it would provide enough room to layer under, since i want to layer it with sweaters in the winter. but it wasn’t overwhelming. i tried it on only over a tee shirt.
the linen jacket in the XS also fit perfectly, and in general i find that all her linen is roomier than any of the other materials – and the linen gives/stretches more with wear. i think i tried on someone’s personal jacket in the XS, so it may have been worn/stretched out already. in any case, i really liked the way the xs fit me in the jacket. and i would probably not layer the linen jacket over sweaters, only over tanks or tees, so i wasn’t concerned about being able to layer it.
i hope that helps a little? i am not small in the shoulders/arms though, so i have to take that into account.
Yes, thank you, that is helpful! I’m disproportionately small in the areas where I think the fit on this would matter (narrow and bony shoulders, bird arms).
If I can make up my mind to actually place an order, I will go with the smaller (that is, XS) size…
Looking forward to your upcoming post about “other” ethical brands!! I have also wondered why so many ethical/eco insta accounts seem to stay within strict parameters. Even when it comes to the styling and scenery! Maybe, as you said, I should look beyond the instagram world 😀
I have the Clyde vest in clay cotton canvas and I am completely OBSESSED with it. I live in Dallas so until the recent weather snap, it was the only “fall” like thing I could wear without sweating too much. lol. I have to stop myself from wearing it every day! Over tees, the ESxAC funnel neck top, etc… couldn’t be more pleased. I hope you enjoy yours! Jealous that you got to try so many things on 🙂