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Life of Colleen: Sundance b & m store is open, and henley review
Sundance b & m store is open, and henley review
posted by Colleen Shirazi
2008-10-12
at 12:01 AM (Pacific)
They finally opened the Sundance store at Corte Madera. It's the second b & m Sundance shop, though it's in the works to open fifteen more over the next few years (according to my Net noodlings anyway).
I haven't gotten out there yet; just as well, as likely the opening was crowded. I don't mind crowds, but I loathe shopping in one.
Some time ago, I bought this Sundance henley online:
This is a truer image than the one they used for the henley alone. :p Still...doesn't this appear to be a cream-colored shirt? Off-white, even? It's actually as much grey heathering as cream background.
And the sizing is...weird. I dithered between trying medium or large, based on the size chart. I can do medium as long as the bust is cut "generously"--to me it's not particularly generous, but many garments today seem cut small there. (If I were cynical, I'd say the makers were being stingy with fabric.)
So I went for large. How large could it be? It's cotton, so I could always fry it incrementally in the washer and dryer (if you try this, it's at your own risk!)...or just fold up the sleeves (years of borrowing men's clothes have made this rather mundane to me). But if I went for medium and the bust shrank, I'd be stuck fiddling around with snaps, which doesn't always work perfectly.
The large henley...the sleeves are the main "large" part. They're hella long. Even after I fried the shirt, they were still a bit long. I'm too lazy to put them up; it's a casual shirt, and has buttons on the cuffs; I should be able to get away with a small fold.
The bust just fit--not tight at all, but not sized in proportion to the sleeves! I'll venture the medium wouldn't have done it.
The rest of the shirt...a bit shorter in length than I would have liked, but not "too short."
So...I had this shirt, of an odd grey-cream mixture, sleeves a tad long, and I wore it.
The thing is this: this is the most comfortable shirt I've worn since...hmmm...ever. It is preternaturally comfortable. Our climate (San Francisco Bay Area) is supposed to be temperate, but it's not that simple...it'll alternate between hot and cold, from day to day or even hour to hour. On the day I wore the henley, I had a leather jacket and cotton sweater over it. The day prior to that, it was tank top weather.
This goes to my pet theory that fibers are key, and the difference is not always obvious, nor reflected in price. I bought this shirt because: a.) I needed to replace my white henley; b.) this looked similar--nicer even, what with the rows of iridescent shell buttons; c.) it was very reasonably priced and d.) I wanted to give Sundance a shot.
When I saw the shirt, I wasn't impressed, but when I wore it--homina homina homina!Labels: sundance catalog, wardrobe
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