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Week in… non-woolies
There haven’t been any Week in Woolies posts for a while because… well… it hasn’t been that cold.
Just a sweater and a jacket, and I haven’t left the house in a hat in a while!
And when I have worn a scarf, it’s been the old blue-and-green standby.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining about our mild winter. It’s just a bit odd!
The perfect shoes for a crafter
Are there more perfect shoes for a crafty person? I saw these Campers at my local shoe store, Gravity Pope, and I love them! Measuring tape! They had in them in this yellow, or a grey (which looks more mauve-y on their website). I just love the yellow though, it seems more like the iconic measuring tape in my mind. I love the metal finisher on the end of the strap – another great measuring tape detail. To me, in the summer yellow is practically a neutral! I’d wear them with my denim shorts, my yellow skirt, my blue skirt, cute sundresses of any colour….
I also really like Camper shoes, they’re always so comfy, even the heels. I have a pair of grey suede heels, and some grey/royal blue flats and both are very comfy, although I probably should have bought a half-size bigger in the heels for shoes I could wear for longer amounts of time.
I suppose a true crafty person would make their own pair, out of actual vintage measuring tapes, but while I’m happy to make myself clothes, I have (so far) drawn the line at shoes. Who wants to be halfway to work when the stitching on their shoes bursts?!
What would you wear these with?
Would a sundress in this fabric be just a bit too too much? 
The fabric is from the Recess line by American Jane Patterns – it came in a few colourways from what I remember, but this is my favourite.
Wishlist Friday!
I started a Google doc a few months ago that I call ‘My big-item wishlist’. I like to note down things I want on there that are over $100. If it is under $100 and I really want it (skeins of sock yarn, I’m looking at you) I tend to buy it. But once things get into that 3-digit territory, I need to think harder about them. I should think harder about what I buy anyway, but here we are. Also on the list are trips I want to take (next year, in Rhinebeck!) and all sorts. I list the item, the price (or estimated price, for trips) and give a number between 1 and 5 indicating how badly I want it.
It helps me prioritize, because when I go to put something on the list I see all the other things on the list, and think about why I might want those things more (or less) than the new thing I’m putting on there. Sometimes it really gets me thinking… if I’m almost on the verge of buying something/putting on my credit card, but then I see the reminder that friends are meeting up in Chicago this summer, and I could buy the handbag/yarn/whatever, or save the money towards that…. I’ve crossed one thing off the list since I started it before Christmas: my camera, which I love and was totally worth it.
The current thing I’m obsessing over on The List is this purse:
It’s Fossil’s Mason Top Zip, and I love everything about it. The short chain handle, the long detachable strap, the colours, everything. But it is almost $200 here in Canada (and $168 on the US site, not that much less) so on the list it goes. The problem with this item is that I imagine taking it on all the (possible) trips that are on the list, using it every day in the summer…. so The List isn’t doing a great job as a deterrent right now. But we have a honeymoon coming up, and while P understands the need for many different pairs of shoes, he doesn’t understand the need for multiple purses. I’ve probably got about 6-8 and it confuses him. But a girl needs options, am I right?
Does anyone else keep a list like this? And how many handbags do you own? Is that number more or less than your shoe collection?
A Week In Woolies – Jan 16 – 22
Let me say this this week. It was cold. Damn cold. At least at the start of it.
Jan 16: my day off, so I went grocery shopping. All the accessories (and the lack of scarf) are inappropriate for walking in the weather, but I as I was driving and only walking across a parking lot, I did it anyway. This is not recommended, what if your car breaks down/you’re in an accident and you have to get out and wait for police/emergency/whatever? But I hate being too bundled up at Safeway. Those fingerless mitts were my first knitting-in-the-round project, and sit low enough on the back of my hand that it is easy to pop my thumb out of the thumb hole and pull off the gloves underneath without taking them off.
Jan 17: This is what -50C with windchill looks like. My thrummed mittens (like wearing your largest pair of oven mitts out of the house, but so warm), my super-long-Bob-Cratchit-scarf, my warmest (and itchiest, sigh) hat, all topped off with the dreaded puffy jacket w/furry hood. Yes, I needed both hood and hat.
I take a bit of a perverse pride in saying that I continue to walk to (and from) work in all weather, but when I was done work at midnight and it was -50C with the windchill…. I wussed out and P came to pick me up. Unlike a co-worker who rode her bike home that night. Had we known that at the time, P and I would have stolen her bike and forced her to ride home with us in the car.
January 18 & 19: Much like the days before, but I switched up hats to amuse myself under my hood. I really like the black and white one, it is the Side Slip Cloche from Boutique Knits. I just wish I’d made it a little bigger, to fit my giant head properly.
January 20 and 21 the weatherman lied to me. Each day it was forecast to be warming up that night, and as I’m heading home around midnight, I dressed to be a little chilly on the walk in, but better on the way home. This is not the way to plan, because the weatherman lies! Thus my surprised (and red) face after my walk in on January 20th.
January 21: only 1 hand-knitted item! That white hat is one of the few storebought hats that has ever fitted my very large head. ‘Onesize’ hats do not fit. Ever. If I want a nice hat (like that one) I have to go to an actual hat store, where hats come in sizes, and even then most of the womens’ hats don’t fit. My Ulmus shawl is a nice big one for keeping the chin warm (or up to the nose, as on Jan 18th), and was the only pop of colour in this outfit. I hadn’t worn all those white things together before, I think I was a little afraid of being mistaken for Bonhomme or something.
Then, on January 22nd, Mother Nature proved just how exciting Calgary’s weather can be… we had positive temperatures again! From -50 to +1 in 5 days. I pulled out my Odessa hat, the lightest and non-wooliest hat I’ve knit myself in celebration. Only 70% wool, and knit by me in 2007! Although, the prize for oldest knitted project goes to the wristwarmers from Monday, knit in 2003. P and I worked at the same time on Sunday, so he took the photos for me. The first few were accidentally taken with the ‘Dali’ Hipstamatic lens. Fun, but not too great for details. The shots were too fun not to include though.
I think this ‘week in woolies’ thing would be fun to do with a bunch of other knitters! Let’s see all those carefully hand-knit items out in the world, being worn. After all, isn’t that what they’re for? You don’t need a camera phone, you don’t need to make little collages*, just post a photo of some sort! Let me know if you’ve done it, and I’ll include the links in next Monday’s Week in Woolies post! Heck, they don’t even need to be hand knit, just show us what you look like bundled up for winter every day!
*If you like the look of the collages, try FD’s Flickr toys for something free, or if you have Photoshop, check out Pugly Pixel’s photo layouts!
A Week in Woolies #1
After my post last week about my mis-matching of knitwear in the winter, I decided to start a little series on the blog. ‘A Week in Woolies’ means I will try to remember (that’s the hard part) to take a picture of myself with my iPhone that includes my hat, scarf, and mitts/gloves.
I figured it would be fun because there are so many pictures of in-progress knits on this blog, but not many of things being really worn. Modelling shots of the finished object don’t count. We’ll also be able to see patterns in what I wear (I can already tell you I wear my blue/green Clapotis all.the.time.) and if I look like ‘that crazy knitting lady’ as I’m walking down the street.
Here we are, starting with the photo you saw last week.
As it was a new idea, I wasn’t too great with remembering to take photos, but I seem to have the pose down pat. I also thought it would be fun to put in the temperature range for each day, because you will see a definite down-surge in matchiness as it gets colder. I would rather my ears and fingers not freeze off than look cool.
The blue gloves on January 13th are great warmer-weather gloves. I bought them at The Bay a few years ago because they match that blue-green scarf I wear so often, and because they’ve got little conductive fabric patches on the index fingers and thumbs so I don’t have to take them off to operate my iPhone. It’s a little fiddly making sure you’re pressing with exactly the right part of your finger, but it is better than taking them off.
January 14th I’m actually wearing at matching hat & mitten set knit from yarn I spun myself! I use the term ‘matching’ loosely, you can’t see mitten #2 but it was a yarn that had loooong colour changes, so let’s call it more of a ‘coordinating’ set than a ‘matching’ one. The scarf I’m wearing there (which I also wore on the missing Jan 12th – didn’t take a photo because it was too warm most of that day and the scarf very soon moved to my purse) was my gift in Kimberly Michelle’s ‘Made By You’ gift exchange. It’s lovely and soft and warm, and goes pretty well with my new hat and mitts! It was made by new knitter Teale. Thank you so much!
January 15th the temperature took a nosedive and I was under-dressed in the hat department. And, truth be told, the coat department. The historical weather data on The Weather Network doesn’t seem to include the windchill, but on most days when it is that cold, there’s also the lovely biting wind that makes it feel 5 to 10 degrees colder still. Luckily, P dropped me off at work, and a kind coworker drove me home that day so I didn’t turn blue. Those pink and purple mittens though? Great for the cold, as they’re lined so they’re really a mitten inside a mitten.
Summary of the week: I felt fairly coordinated all week, up until the 15th when I made choices that were bad for both matching, and the weather.
Forecast for this week: The temperature is going to hover around -30C until Sunday or so, so I will probably be wearing my hated down parka for most of it, and the warmest knits I own. I try to deny the fact that I live somewhere where an down puffer coat is necessary, but when the windchill makes it -40C*, I give up and just put the damn thing on. Until that point, I’m very happy to deny the coldness by wearing my regular wool-blend coats (the white one is Anthropologie {$45 on Boxing Day!}, the grey is Soia & Kyo) with various layers of sweaters underneath.
What do you look like all bundled up?
*fun fact: Celsius and Fahrenheit match up at -40. -40C and -40F are the same temperature: F-ING COLD.
A Knitter’s Woolies
As a knitter, I knit a lot of things. Things like hats and mitts and scarves are fun because you don’t need to be super-worried about fit. Scarves – not at all, mitts and hats – small enough that starting over isn’t a huge chore.
As a knitter, I love fibre and all the different colours it comes in. I want to buy all the fibre I can fit in my house, and then some.
As a knitter, I love the millions of patterns available to me through the internet and books, (almost) all categorized by Ravelry. It is through browsing patterns on Ravelry that I realized that there is an immense number out there.
The above statements add up to – I like knitting little things, in different yarns and patterns. Meaning…. a knitter’s woolies will rarely match. There’s too much fibre out there to knit with the same thing twice! The same goes for patterns!
Today I felt like I did a very good job of coordinating my cold-weather-wear, so (for once) I wasn’t that girl with the blue/green scarf, red mittens, and beige/rainbow hat. Pink hat, purple/pink scarf, purple/pink mittens… not bad! Not to mention the permanent fixtures of the purple glasses and purple purse.
I feel like I’m starting to reach that point where I’ve knitted enough to start having things that coordinate, although the above group is the only proper ‘set’ I could create. I think some blue/green/grey mittens might be the next thing I should knit. Which leads to…
As a knitter, I hate knitting the ‘shoulds’. I just want to knit what I want in that particular moment. So I do. And while the matching was nice today, tomorrow I might put on my grey hat, maroon scarf, and store-bought fleece mittens, and I’m perfectly fine with that.
Thrift-a-phobia
I love thrift stores. I love them because they are cheaper, kitschier versions of antique stores, which I also love. I go into thrift stores and I browse the housewares, the furniture, and the books. Notice that clothing never comes in to this equation at all.
(press the auto-timer button BEFORE the shutter button, and it will work better)
Part of it is the whole ‘used’ thing. Yes, I realize that clothes can be washed, I do it myself a few times a week, but it’s different when it’s my own dirt. For another thing I hate poking through unorganized racks. Just like I love Anthropologie, but the sale rooms intimidate me. My main strategy for shopping at Anthro is to try on things when they’re full price and nicely displayed with coordinating things, and then buy them when they hit the sale room. It’s all just too crammed in together and you have to look through every.single.thing to make sure you haven’t missed anything. The ‘everything crammed together’ reason is one of the main reasons I avoid thrift store clothing. Now, give me a bookstore with books crammed to the rafters 3 rows deep, and I will sit on the floor and sift through every.single.one to make sure I haven’t missed a gem!
It makes me sad that I feel this way about thrift stores because I know so many fashionable people in real life and in blog land that are always wearing awesome outfits, and saying ‘this old thing? Thrift store for $3!’. I love the Anthropologie style, but it isn’t exactly easy on the pocket book, and so many of their pieces are vintage-inspired, I believe that you can dress like an Anthro model entirely from a thrift store, if you have the fortitude.
Neuroses aside, I went to a thrift store the other day with the express purpose of looking through the clothing – to be more exact, the sweaters. I needed sweaters for this sweater scarf I made myself, and the place to get them was the thrift store. I went, took a deep breath, and browsed the ladies’ sweaters. I managed to pick 5 as candidates to be turned into scarves, and I found this awesome sweater-vest. I love a good sweater-vest!
It was my size, Esprit, and only cost $4.99! And chevrons are all over Pinterest right now, so it must be cool, right?
I found that I could look through the big long racks, and that they weren’t as intimidating as I thought they were. Everything was at least organized by size, and mostly by colour within those sizes. I could walk slowly along the racks and see at least the sleeves/shoulder of each garment, and only pull out the ones with fabrics I liked. This one vest has me excited to go thrifting for clothes. Specifically, I really wanted to do something kicky and Anthro-y and pair it with a cool skirt or patterned blouse, but none of my current skirts went with it (too summery, apart from the one satin one which was too satin-y), and I don’t own any cool printed blouses (we’ll talk about my obsession with Emma Pillsbury’s wardrobe another day).
What’s your favourite thing that you’ve ever thrifted?
Halloween Throughout the Ages
My mum is a very craft lady. Unlike me, she has the sewing gene, and can whip anything up on her sewing machine. Thus, I always had the coolest Halloween costumes as a kid. Even the time that I came home from preschool and said I wanted to be a cow for the preschool costume parade. ‘When’s the parade, love?’ ‘Tomorrow.’ I still got an awesome cow costume!
We went through my childhood photos last year at Christmas so we could put together a slideshow for the wedding, so now I have a selection of childhood photos on my computer. This Halloween I thought I’d honour my mum, and show some of the costumes she made me.
Doing my best Raggedy Anne impersonation at the ripe old age of 1.5. Note: anyone with thunder thighs should not wear horizontally-striped tights.
I think I’m 4 in this photo – this was another preschool costume but I can’t remember if cow came before fairy or after. I played with that cape for a looooooong time after I wore this costume.
I think this year (has to be 8, I’m older, but not wearing glasses yet) I started out wanting to be a mermaid, but that posed walking problems so I was an octopus instead. The fun thing about this was was that if I spun around, all the legs would fly out like a giant tutu. I also loved the seashells and the awesome seaweed (I’ve got a barrette in my hair with more shells and seaweed). The seaweed is just green tulle – cut it into strips, and then stretch the edges in sections with your fingers. Instant ruffly seaweed!
There are tons of others that I just don’t have photos for, like:
- The mobile library. Yup, mobile library. That one was more about cardboard and the glue gun than fabric.
- There was an awesome set of patchwork butterfly wings that she made when I was 9 ish, that I actually re-wore the last time I went trick-or-treating at age 14 with some high school friends.
- Another favourite was Dorothy, with gingham dress made by mum, ruby slippers re-covered by mum, and basket with my stuffed Toto toy.
There was also the point where either I felt ‘too cool’ for homemade costumes, or we’d find something awesome at Value Village.
- I was an English bobby a couple times – plastic helmet, an oversize navy blue men’s suit, and a pillow stuffed under the jacket.
- We found a black silk cape once, which I wore with all black and one of those headbands with bats on springs so I could be a bat.
- In grade 12 we found a perfect kelly green velvet cutaway tailcoat that fit me like a glove. I think it had matching green sequined trim, too. The same VV had a kelly green tophat on a different rack, but they were obviously mean to be together. I felt I was a very cute leprechaun, but not in the way that so many costumes nowadays are ‘sexy ______’. It was a form-fitting jacket, but I wore it with long pants and a cami underneath, and carried a brass pot full of candy around. I re-wore that jacket in university one year, with a black skirt and green tights.
What was your favourite costume ever?
Too much broth, not enough cooks
You know that saying ‘too many cooks spoil the broth’? I’m having the opposite happening to me right now. I have SO. MANY. blog posts planned/half-written/almost done/just needs one more photo but none of them are ready to post yet. I’ve been getting distracted with other projects that I then want to write about and share, which just ends with more half-finished posts.
Today I’m very excited because I followed a DIY tutorial I found on Pinterest, and am current wearing something that I sewed. Myself. I am not a sewer, although I’ve owned my sewing machine since I was 10, and I think this is the first time I have voluntarily sewn something. And not cried.
But, that project is suffering from the ‘just needs one more picture’ malady, so today I show you the fancy manicure I gave myself yesterday, also inspired by a pin on Pinterest.
I just did one fancy nail, otherwise I would have been sitting there forever, and it had already taken longer than I expected and I had to get to work. But I do like the one accent nail look. The tutorial for the patchwork nail polish is nice and clear. I used 3 colours of OPI polish – the dark teal that looks black in this photo is called ‘My Personal Serpent’, the purple glitter is ‘Eve-y On The Eyes’ and the grey is ‘Break a Legwarmer!’. I feel very punky with such dark nails. I kinda like it.
On the blog front, I am planning on diving back into everything fully next week, after Thanksgiving – I’ve even had a few ideas about plans or features to do… I’m uncertain about how I feel about features. When I say ‘feature’ I mean things like ‘every Wednesday I post about sewing’. In one way I feel like it gives cohesiveness to blogs like mine where the blogger talks about everything, but on the other hand sometimes I feel features get a little ‘oh no, it’s Wednesday, she’s going to talk about sewing again’ for the readers. Our honeymoon is still months away, but I’m so enthused about it that I feel like I could write a ‘Honeymoon Monday’ post from now until we leave. I thought Monday and honeymoon went well together. 
What are your thoughts on set-day features like that? Do you enjoy or does it annoy? Is it less annoying if bloggers don’t make a point of it, and just post about honeymoons every Monday without spelling out ‘this is what I am doing’?
Shoe Chronicles
The last time I wrote a post squeeing about shoes, they looked like this:
My Anthropologie wedding shoes.
This time I’m squeeing about shoes of a different type. They look more like this:
Shoes for our Costa Rican honeymoon! Details of the honeymoon aren’t set in stone yet (soon, hopefully!) but when I found these sandals on sale now, at the end of summer, I snapped them up. They have good soles, an anti-microbial and hydrophobic lining (good in damp places like jungles!), and closed toes so no scary critters can get in.
I’ve tried Keens on before, and never had much luck, but these shoes looked so perfect I decided to give them a try. I tried on my normal size 8, and like all Keens, I felt like my feet were floating around in two boats. They were on a sale table, and there was no 7.5 or 7 in the pile. There was another pair of Keens on sale on a different table – those ones were more like mesh hikers, and didn’t have any fun touches of pink, but I figured I’d need shoes of some sort of Costa Rica, so I picked up a box marked 7 from that pile. When I opened it, it had ‘my’ sandals in it! Destiny! Going a full size down definitely made these shoes fit me properly.
Did you buy any special footwear for your honeymoon? Was it much more glamorous than mine?
I have. no. shoes.
I was getting ready to head to work last week, and while putting my shoes on at the door my foot went right through my shoe! It was this lovely pair of shoes that I’ve had for over 3 years, and even had re-soled because I loved them so much:
Back when they were fresh and new.
This disaster, combined with the cheap booties that wore like champs all winter and disintegrated in May, left me without any actual shoes to wear with socks. During prime put-the-sandals-away season! I have plenty of summery shoes…
New favourites I bought this summer
Old favourites from before the mary janes that died.
Now what I need is a very specific type of shoe. It needs to accommodate a sock. I need to be able to walk to work in them, in the winter and the snow. As I’m a knitter, mary janes in the winter are not such a crazy idea – wool socks are warm, yo. I didn’t want boots – I have boots that I love wearing. But on days like today (+10C, but this logic runs all the way down to about -20C) I don’t want the tops of my feet exposed to the cold in ballet flats, nor do I want my legs encased in a double layer of denim and leather up to my knees.
Recyclus NW927
These are the favourite pair of boots that I own (although the ones I think of as my ‘Biggles boots’ are a close second. I just don’t have photos of those). I can wear them under pants and just look like I’m wearing brown shoes, or I can wear them over pants, and show the world my favourite shade of green. They are also super-comfortable, which inspired me to search the city for shoes by the same company (El Naturalista).
After a couple fruitless trips to a mall store that supposedly carries the line, I went to a local camping store (I know, right?!) and picked up these babies:
Iggdrasil - N095
Nice neutral brown, thick rubber sole to keep me up and out of any snowmelt, room for handknit socks. The chunky heel on these means that the back cuffs of my pants may actually survive this winter. As a shorty who is too lazy to hem her own pants/too cheap to get someone else to do it, my back cuffs are generally raggedy.
From 0 to 4 polishes
Not a wedding post! Crazy! After getting my nails done for the wedding, I realised that I really like having nicely done nails. For the wedding, I just had a very natural French manicure done, but one of my bridesmaids had hot pink polish put on. I think it looked extra-good because she had her nails trimmed quite short, so they were just little pops of colour. Then, I saw this photo on Pinterest via Design Crush:
And I had to do it! The funny thing is is that I rarely wear nail polish! I might get a pedicure once a year, and that is about it. But, I enjoyed being pampered before the wedding, and being unemployed, I certainly have the time to give myself a manicure!
I do have a few shades of nail polish, so I tried it with what I had at home:
These are seriously all the nailpolishes I own! Pale blue for the base coat, a bright pink and coral orange that are very similar and a pale lilac are the spots. To do the spots, I grabbed a toothpick. My plan was to cut one of the pointy ends off and use that flat round surface as a dabber, but apparently the last time we bought toothpicks, they only came with one pointy end so I didn’t even need to get out the scissors!
It’s a little crazy to go from almost no nail polish ever, to crazy designs, but every time I look down at my nails I smile.
Good bye Doc…
I managed to do something that I had previously believed to be impossible: wear out a pair of Doc Martens. I suppose I have had them for 10 years, and they started life as my school shoes, which meant wearing them every school day for 3 years. I still somehow thought they’d be indestructable. I still believe the sole is, but I wore a hole in the leather upper, right where my toes bend when I walk. It’s only the right foot, but I’m sure the left isn’t too far behind.
This of course meant that I had to buy shoes! And I’m not violating the ‘no shoes in 2008′ rule on my 101 list, because there was always an ‘unless absolutely needed’ clause. I was only wearing the Docs because my other everyday shoes wore out, and I wasn’t going to buy a new pair when I had perfectly good Docs just sitting there. But now the Docs are gone, and I was left with… sandals and dress shoes.
I bought new shoes, and one stipulation was that they had to look good with handknit socks. And pants. And skirts. And good for winter and summer. And Banff. I think I got everything….
Strappy! And fun! Let’s look at that list again:
- look good with handknit socks. Check, I think!
- And pants. Yes!
- And skirts. Haven’t tried yet, but I definitely think so!
- And good for winter. This is the only possible no…. I don’t think any type of Mary-Janes are good for winter. Maybe with handknit socks though?
- and summer. Yes!
- And Banff The soles are rugged and suited for climbing a mountain (and by that I really mean a gravel path and very steep stairs) to get to work. Now I just need to get my legs in training.
I have also just updated my version of WordPress on this blog, and the podcast blog. Everything seems to be working, better than before even!
(the shoe company is Khrio, and the style name is ‘Fiona’, which doesn’t seem to be on the website. Not surprising, because I got these on sale.)
Knits in the Forecast
I went shopping today (new dress, 30% off, new necklace, 50% off!) and while browsing, I saw all sorts of exciting knitted things. I’m going to talk about those right now, as working 66 hours in 6 days is not conducive to knitting.
My favourite were the rain boots. You know, those rubbery boots, sometimes called gumboots. I had a neon pink pair as a child (that got caught in an escalator that could’ve taken my leg off if my dad so quick on his feet. I had an unhealthy fear of escalators until about 14) but I generally find those boots boring. Recently I’ve been seeing printed ones around, like these cute Kate Spade ones. Today, in The Bay of all places, I saw the pair I need. Which is saying a lot, as it doesn’t rain much here. If I was still in BC, I would’ve snapped them up, $120 price tag and all. Why are these the holy grail of gumboots? Let me show you:
Stockingette-patterned boots, with knit cuffs!
The only drawback (apart from the price) is that I don’t wear much red. But when I was considering a pair of patterned boots a while ago, I did say to myself ‘Self, why not get boots in some crazy colour to brighten the rainy days?’, which, if I do say so, is pretty sage advice. Who knows, I may still buy them. Although I do have my eye on that green corduroy blazer at Jacob….
What up, USPS?
So I finally got together an order from truejeans.com, as Grumperina is wonderful and has a discount code on her blog. I’ve been stalking the site for weeks, but waiting has paid off. Despite some styles I wanted being sold out in my size now (sob!) the Canadian dollar is higher than it has been in forever. As the coupon runs out at the end of this month, I decided to bite the bullet (or credit card) and do it.
I got the shipping part of the checkout process. I won’t be ordering.
Postage to Canada? Between $60-72 dollars. Most of the jeans on my ‘wishlist’ were $68. Sorry, but no. When someone decideds to splurge on a pair of jeans, they don’t want the postage to be worth another pair of jeans.
I realise that rates have changed, etc, but there has to be a cheaper way, doesn’t there? I don’t need them tomorrow. And I definitely don’t need UPS and all their random extra charges. Brokerage fee? Isn’t that included in the $60 I am paying?
I guess this means I have to go jeans shopping in person. ugh. Honestly, I much prefer bathing suit shopping. And as any woman will tell you, that’s something.
