a shirt for all seasons - sowing and harvesting included.

I popped onto the Rock Center J.Crew just now - you know, the one with the Crewhenge where arbitrary and capricious gods accept tribute? Today there was a cute little Farmer's Market going on outside the store. No, Dear Leader doesn't care if we eat veggies and organic baked goods as long as we don't spend so much on food and accessories that there's nothing left for him. The farmers' market is one of the projects of New York City Greenmarkets. The location is purely coincidental.

Why did I say coincidental? Because when I tore myself away from the perspiring vegetables, and turned to wander among the striped shirts and floral print and shiny miniskirts, what to my wondering eyes did appear? a shirt for Mrs. Greenjeans, and very expensive, too, as harvest festival gear goes.
So that's what it looks like in the catalogue and on the website. In those colors I kinda like it. Gray jacket, dark jeans? Probably we'll see it styled with tartans before long, but for the present, ok as is.


It looked very different in real life. Much, much more vivid, and the mismatched prints weren't whimsical, but actually clashed. And while the peacock feather and flower designs were fine, the green blobs reminded me of the drawings of one-celled animals we had to make in 9th grade Biology.

I didn't take any other pictures, there wasn't anything that screamed for attention. It was lunch hour in a busy commercial area, and the store was almost empty. I did notice a distressing symptom, a few things had ruffles.