what goes around, comes around

Sunday morning is a time for procrastinating in our house, there are people we should be calling, articles we should be reading, plants we should be rebuking, dinners and trips to plan...  and yet, when I should be improving the shining hour, the results of random clicks have a wicked and tempting appeal. And this morning, feeling guilty about a vague sense of disappointment that the dramatic weather passed us by -- wouldn't you like to see a tornado? just once? aren't you just a little curious?  of course, once seen, it should fizzle out harmlessly, but still -- anyway, I was looking for pictures of the tornadoes that hit places a little west of us, and came up with that Lifestyle Tornado, Miss GP, wearing a jacket that looked familiar.
Last Spring, a picture of our heroine, role model and Best Friend Forever, Gwyneth Paltrow, wearing a woolen jacket from J.Crew, was circulating. The World's Greatest Expert on Everything That Money Can Buy was getting off a plane, effortlessly wheeling an apparently weightless suitcase. My guess was that someone had steam-pressed the jacket for her before she started to get off the plane, because trust me, the majority of  J.Crew jackets suffer from fear of flying.

I have a version of this jacket in Piped Linen (bydand!), and I love my jacket so much that even the fact that a late adapter was seen in the woolen version hasn't spoiled it for me. I believe it's safe to continue to wear my jacket in a world of Gwynnie-mockers because, unlike TWGEETMCB, I wear things more than once or twice. I also believe that those who seek styling advice from TWGEETMCB may lack the fashion savvy to connect the linen version to the wool version in a different color, so I am safe from having to deal with comments about TWGEETMCB, positive or negative. And yet, and yet....

 TWGEETMCB really likes piping on jackets. This clip from SheFinds.com (above, at least I hope it's above on your screen) shows TWGEETMCB effortlessly reclining on a stairway, wearing the exclusive result of a collaboration between GOOP and rag & bone.

lining of my sleeve
(after alteration)

lining of GOOP sleeve

Ordinarily the fact that more than one manufacturer has thought of making a jacket, even a jacket with piping, wouldn't surprise me. This one, however, priced at $495, struck me as more than coincidence. In case you didn't notice the coincidental details, TWGEETMCB makes it easy for you by describing the jacket as "a grown-up take on the school jacket... ."

I've seen any number of J.Crew pieces that are so eerily like those produced by manufacturers aiming at higher price points, that the JC knock-offs versions no longer annoy me, and frankly, some are actually nicer than the originals. I shrug. There are bright plaids all over the place this fall, some shaggy, some satiny, some vintage, and I love the JC Collection blouse that I bought the other day. In olden times it would have been called a "suit blouse." In fact, it might fill in the gaps on this vintage number that I saw on Etsy. Sadly, while I was trying to translate sizes into Moi, it vanished.

So, anyway, back to TWGEETMCB and the interesting thought that someone has done an overpriced knockoff of J.Crew. What I think? It's Karma.

luv that Gwynnie: fred's new role model. Maybe.

Well, I guess the devil made me do it. Again. But you can't turn on a TV or computer without seeing a certain happy face. So have a look at the latest issue of GOOP VIDEO. My treat.