window shopping on the web

I try to tell you when there is a good sale at J Peterman, but today I’m just highlighting some dresses I’m wishing about. Not on sale. Fingers crossed they come on sale in my size! The first one, at $124, is pretty close to affordable while still not being on sale. (Remember to use the coupon code jpten to get 10% off! That’s like free shipping!)

I love it in this color, they call it “celery,” and the dress is also available in pale pink. I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that you shouldn’t wear pink after you are 20 years old, at least not until you hit about 65 and then it’s okay to wear again. For the ages in-between, you are trying to artificially look like a girl (was the theory) and hence just look silly. Pink is not my color, but it made a very pretty dress. oh, and this one was in linen. I’m getting tired of buying dresses that are dry clean only! But I still like this one.

I also am in love with the lines of this dress! It’s cotton jacquard, so in theory I could hand-wash. At $189 I’m waiting for a sale, though! This dress was available last season in different colors, and I did miss it while on sale. I love this season’s colors even more, so I guess I’m still in luck! I love this dress because it is so hard to find one that has no bunching of some kind around the waist, maybe I just mean waistband…but falls straight like this so is more slimming than most. And it would be a beautiful outfit accompanied by a little natural-fiber shrug which I want to knit.

And I love coats, I have too many coats, but each one does something different, you know? And even though this one does not pretend to be a 1930s repro, I still think it could pass as one. I can just see Nora Charles getting out of her coupe wearing this. I think it’s described as a small purple houndstooth, so very sophisticated.