Ok, friends, go ahead and grab 10 mini coffee crisps and let’s discuss clothes!
Friends, I feel like I could stare at this jacket all day! Like, it may need to hung a wall or something! This jacket looks like the “inspiration” picture of a project I would try to do that would involve indigo dying and Shashiko stitching or something. In my case, the result would be a faded brown colour (any dying I have tried -no matter the colour-has ended with brown, and maybe once I accidentally threw the dyed garment in the washing machine and everything else came our brown too! AND THEN my eldest called me out for ruining all her clothes that ended up brown too! It was a bloodbath, friends, and so ended my attempts at dying anything!)
(Friends, I just want you to know that I know that this jacket is NOT handmade or hand-dyed in anyway, I am just enjoying the fantasy of coming across such a cool item. Let’s accept and enjoy these moments of little pleasures.) So, upon looking closer, based on the pooling of the colours this jacket was maybe more “acid washed” than soaked in indigo….
….and the super cool top-stitching is super fine and angular, so definitely done by machine, not by hand. So, um, in conclusion, not at all the indigo-dyed Sashiko-stitched garment I conjured up at first, but still such a cool piece!
This is not a Rorschach test and not a 3-d poster, but what do you see? Maybe you see it already, but if you don’t see the thing, once I tell you you won’t see anything else, so are you ready? Yes, friends, yes, this is a bloodhound ring!!!! I’ve never seen anything like this, it is soooooooooo cool!
Check out this shirt really closely b/c……it’s an pony shirt!
Horse shoes!
Harnesses? We’ve reached the end of my equestrian knowledge despite owning a shop called Red Pony! (Did you know that the name of the store started out as joke between Rod and I? At the time we were all “what’s trendy? Cowboys?” and then we were all “wouldn’t it be funny if it had a colour in it too? Something like…. like…..like…….red pony or something! So ridiculous! Who would name a store that?! Hahahahaha…..” but then we kept jokingly calling it Red Pony until it didn’t sound funny anymore, and now here we are!)
This vintage wool skirt has the best palette; the purples, the blues, the fuchsias! And you know what, friends? I would not be opposed to this skirt worn with the Ralph Lauren horse shirt. Seriously, a bit weird, but I think it could work! This skirt is 100% wool and made in Canada (but no union tag this time).
Just like Ayala Barr, there was a time in my life when I had no idea what local Kyn Apparel was, and now I feel like we have it in the shop all the time! Kyn Apparel is designed by Alèthe (I KNOW HER!!) in Edmonton using beautiful fabrics she brings in for Mali (and other places too, I think. And I could ask her if I wanted to because I KNOW HER but also I don’t want to bug her because she might be so busy that maybe she would act all confused like she has zero idea who I am and while this would have NOO EFFECT on my self-esteem at all and I am mostly just being courteous since I know how busy she is).
This scarf is made from beautiful batik fabric (look at that saturation of colour!), but they’ve Edmontoned it up with soft green fleece on the inside!
This cropped jacket from Toronto’s Dagg & Stacey has been flying under the radar and deserves a closer look, friends. First of all, it’s velvet!
Check out it’s adorable ribbon and button!
And the super sweet eyelet lace lining! So much Victorian softness!
Now, friends, please don’t freak out when I tell you this story. In these Covid times when one must be EXTRA CAREFUL and we all put so much effort in, nothing is more disappointing than after all the work of avoiding other people’s germs, you drink out of your co-worker’s coffee cup by accident. Now, the truly awful part of this story is that, not only do I accidentally absent-mindedly take a sip out of Alex’s cup -sadly- *every* *day*, but I accidentally drink from her cup SEVERAL TIMES every day!!! I know, this is awful! And because she takes her coffee black (gross…but also somehow very chique and grown-up?) I immediately and simultaneously react to the gross mouthful I have just gotten AND the fact that I have ruined all the mask-wearing and not-hugging that we work so hard at and I slam the cup down and make an “ARGH OH COME ON!” sound that represents not only all of our frustrations about coronavirus, but also all the ways we are disappointed in ourselves. That’s right, friends: 2020 tastes like black coffee when you are expecting double-double EVERYDAY.
That said, don’t be scared to come visit the shop (just don’t put your coffee down. Ever)! Alex will be in the shop Thursday and Friday, and I will be in those days and Saturday if you want to come down and chat about The Bachelorette, your feelings about velvet and how you take your coffee!