the Spring wardrobe, part two in an apparently continuing series or saga, if you will

My order from J Crew arrived, and, people, the news is not great.
I ordered: a skirt, a pair of "cropped" jeans, "cropped" chinos and "cropped" capris - and I, specifically and against my better judgement, ordered everything in petite so that the "cropped" pants would actually fall slightly above my ankles. Size 4.
The results:
The skirt is fine. Nice even. It's a brownish, cotton-y, pleated-ish, lightweight number that will match everything I own.
The jeans were ridiculous. "Matchstick" I am not. Even thin, I have some curves.
Some brownish cropped pants were really bad - there's a photo below so you can smirk.
The chinos, in white, WERE COMPLETELY TRANSPARENT. I'm not saying another word.
The capris, on sale THANK GOODNESS, are okay. Just really OKAY. But on sale. On sale and I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO WEAR TO WORK SO I AM KEEPING THEM.




See? They are fine.



I can't explain why, but, as you can see in this truly terrible photo, the cut of these pants is just no good for me. I'm lapsing into the 14 year old boy thing again.

And, layered, the okay pants are almost good.



Though my room looks awfully red doesn't it? It's not really.
K pointed out that for $39.95 one should not HAVE to layer to make pants look okay. But in K's mind pants should be $20 so we can't really pay attention to him in this case. I've had plenty of $20 pants and that's exactly what they are worth.



He also mentioned something about the rear view of the okay pants. Said something about panty lines or some such. I tried to explain that that is easily remedied but I'm not discussing underwear here, AM I?

Here. I will distract all 27 of you with this excellent example of my photoshopping skills:



I had to adjust the hue and saturation on this shot as well as the brightness and contrast AND THEN I wrote on it. Voila. A perfectly bad photo of my laundry.
Oh, also, the top-layer dress is merely resting against me in this picture. I didn't even put it on. TALK ABOUT TALENT. GO AHEAD.

I have today and tomorrow off from work and am taking Youngest into town.
Tonight I am making pasta with wild ramps which my boss brought from his weekend house...and I'm watching Survivor with Mom.

Yesterday Middle and K had a tour of Art School. K had/has many many questions but I think he liked it. They brought me one of those stickers for the back window of my car.
I have a kid (almost) in college!