a peep at some new items at J.Crew, Madison Avenue

It's hard to go anywhere without stumbling into this store - 5 city buses stop almost in front of it, Grand Central Station with access to 4 or 5 subway lines plus all those commuter trains is a hop away - so whatever else I have to do in the area, I usually manage a peep.
Or two.

New merch out on the floor, not so many new ideas. For instance, the woolly romper from the April catalog has arrived


in festive springlike army green.

Sorry for the blur, this is the lovely green paisley print that was so admired in an early version in a Lookbook, and it makes up into a very pretty shirt indeed. Silk-cotton blend, long-ish sleeves. Nice.
Old news - skinny minis, puffy minis (by puffy I mean gathered waists with no waistband). Feh.

Did not like a gold lamé tee (synthetic) with poly lining.
Was hoping it might do to change into for one of the afterparties of the Royal Wedding but then realized that I would not be too fresh and dainty after wearing it on a warm day for 5 minutes.

I liked a short-sleeved silk tee, black & white stripes, thought it would be great with wide-legged whir pants, also under a black linen blazer, also with a red skirt -
even though I'm getting tired of stripes this looked fresh to me.

Was not thrilled to see more glittery sparkly stuff.


Enough already.

Lots of shorts in lots of colors. How cute they are is going to depend on how faithfully you did those squats and stretches this past winter. But you knew that.

That's all for now, have to call downstairs to doorman to check if Royal Messenger has arrived with Belated But Sincere Invitation.