oh. right. that.

I love this print! It's a girl's dress and comes in girls' sizes up to 14. The dress is sold by Crewcuts, who are also offering the print in a short puffy skirt and in low-waisted skinny Bermuda shorts. Both of those items are non-starters for me, although at the low end of what is known as My Range, I can sometimes wear the Kids' 14 in a top.  
But the dress? I emailed a pic to my sister, with a large question mark as the message. "Kids' 14? Kidding, right?" she replied. Well, I guess not. I hate it when my sister is right. And there weren't any Grown-Up Lady clothes in the print anywhere. 

And yet the print - so relaxing, yet so energizing - remained on my mind, where it fluttered around for a few days, and then I thought I'd try again. 

"Look at this, isn't the fabric nice?" I said to Himself. He grunted affirmatively. "It reminds me of something," he said. "Spring? Gardens? France? Going to France in the spring?"
None of those, it turns out.
After some thought, he had an answer. "Isn't that the wallpaper we had in the big bathroom when we lived on -------?"
Yes. It is.

22 comments:

  1. I hate it when I love something and nobody else quite gets it. So, I usually buy it anyway.

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    1. Hi, Sulky, I actually called and got the measurements of the dress. It's a no-go.

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  2. I would upholster a chair in that in a heartbeat.

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    1. hi, Raina, come to think of it, it is kind of reminiscent of Josef Frank on a lazy day.

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  3. Oh no. Well at least it was the wallpaper in the big bathroom! As opposed to the smaller one you didn't like as well, you know. It is a very spring-like print and I don't know about you Fred but this winter is making me lose my mind!
    And you know that was pretty good recall from Himself.

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    1. Well, Dani, the New York Times has a very large Sports section!

      It does seem like a very long winter, though.

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  4. Over here it has been a long and vilely hot summer. I would like a spring garden to look as good as that dress. A lot.

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    1. and I welcome snow like a little kid rushing to the classroom window at the sight of the first flakes! it's the wind that gets to me, strong gusts channeled between tall buildings that see to be aimed directly at the back of my neck - well, I'm about ready for Spring, too.

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  5. It must have been a pretty bathroom. Guess that could curb your desire for garments with the same print. Silver linings.

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  6. It is a darling dress. Might read a bit too youthful on us grown folks? Would have loved to see it in a Jackie cardigan or an A-line skirt. Or of course, on a bathroom wall. :)

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    1. The dress is probably too youthful for a kid who wears a size 14.

      If JC had Amy imagination, they'd scale the print down and make a shirt, to be worn with a pencil skirt in the original size print. Maybe even a positive-negative kind of thing, navy background on the skirt, so you could sit down fearlessly. Ah, but I dream.

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    2. If you had a 6 year old to give it to, with both front teeth missing-- so perfect.

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    3. Oh dear...I do have a 5 year old, though she has all of her teeth as yet. Now I am tempted! Wonder if it will make it to sale?

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    4. well, first, I don't know who "Amy" is, she arrived in my previous reply courtesy of autocorrect while I was dealing with a delivery. I meant ANY, of course.

      And now I'm thinking of a 5-ish friend who definitely deserves this creation, and I too will stalk Crewcuts for markdowns.

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  7. I stopped looking at the Crewcuts section of the J.Crew catalogs altogether when I found myself becoming jealous of some of the children who could wear the clothes. There are some really cute dresses in there, with more styles available besides yet another JUUUULES dress.

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    1. This is because little kids won't put up with nonsense, like still another Juuuules. And I applaud.

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  8. Would Margaret Annie welcome Floating Floral as a closet companion?

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  9. Hmm. Well fed and still potentially fitting into children's clothing? Please share your secrets with the rest of us mere mortals.

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    1. well, a size 14 top (girls) fits a woman's size 6, sometimes even an 8.A full-cut boys' flannel shirt in size 14 fits a woman's 8, I like the ones Ralph Lauren makes (marked down, of course), and they come up to a boy's 18 or 20.

      I do not feel like discussing my hips.

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  10. It's starting to make a little more sense. I wasn't aware of the conversions. In my case it probably doesn't matter since my proportions are reversed, bigger number on top. This might be a good thing in your 20's but after a few years pass and gravity starts taking its vicious toll, the word "matronly" might be heard in the wind. I guess most of us mere mortals have our own issues. Thanks for the information and the print on the dress is delightful. It has me dreaming of Spring after today's snow.























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