I wrote about Kate D’Arcy’s new venture, Lux Green Living, a few weeks ago, and now, I am excited to review a few organic cotton pieces from Toggery, Kate’s clothing line!
First, the french terry lounge pants. This has basically been my uniform whenever I’m home: Kate’s pants, a SPUN organic cotton tank top, and this Ever organic cotton hoody when I’m a little cool, and Ethletic “chucks” when I walk the dog. The pants are 93% organic cotton and 7% spandex; and thank goodness for the spandex…it’s what pulls everything in! I feel like the pants are more wide leg than flared, and I did have to cut an inch or so off the bottom – I’m short. They roll up a tiny bit at the bottom, but it’s not noticeable at all. I love that they’re low rise, but not too low rise, and incredibly comfy…
I also got this great organic cotton ballet neck tee (available at Greenloop in the “rust” color I have). I love the longer length, the color, the neckline (I think the ballet neckline is flattering on most), and how soft it is. Here are a couple of outfits from last week with this top:
On the left, I’m also wearing a pair of James Jeans I’ve had FOREVER – I think they’re my oldest pair of jeans, Repetto BB Ballet flats, and a Jenny Yuen “Hitchcock” bag. On the right, I’m wearing J Brand “Kat” wideleg jeans, Sportmax clogs, and the Jenny Yuen bag again.
I also got this great cowl neck dress – again, in organic cotton. The reason I’m in side view on this one, is that it’s a little too short for me to wear without tights for my taste…and it’s been way too hot here to wear tights. So I just snapped this picture to give you an idea of the general fit. I think for Winter, I will wear opaque black or brown tights, wear the dress belted, with a grandfather cardigan over it all…sounds comfy!!
I am so pleased with my Toggery experience so far…everything fits very well (for your information, I’m always a large on the bottom, size 32 or 12 jeans, and mostly a large on the top, but I can sometimes take a medium on top). All the pieces I received were larges – I could have gone with a medium in the long sleeve top, to cut out some of the scrunching, but I tend to like things for Fall/Winter longer and “scrunchier” – it’s just more comfortable! Also, everything’s been washed multiple times already and I don’t think anything shrunk…
