raincoats, take a guess and bike to work day.

the only good thing about it raining on bike to work day is that i really needed to water my tree today (yes, by tree i mean the little tree in my little island of trash...), and now i probably won't have to.

so, i'll give you all til sunday to guess how much change is in the jar by leaving a comment. i know you're reading, why not leave a guess? i'm picking two commenters at random to send a package of girlscantell funsies to, as well.

the other day, i decided i really needed a raincoat the other day. my criteria was that it needed to have a hood, and not look like a mom-raincoat (you know what i mean). of course, the first place i checked was etsy. there wasn't much in the way of handmade raincoats listed, except from hacker, which had this amazing reddish pink coat listed, but a little out of my raincoat price-range. so, tempted as i was, i checked my paypal account and decided to keep looking.  after a few frustrating searches that kept leading me to the inevitable lands-end-epitome-of-mom style coats, i checked the kenneth cole site, because kenneth cole can pretty much do no wrong, right? 

well. not so much on the trenches with hoods from kenneth cole.  (come on, desginers! hoods can be awesome!  make it work! where is tim gunn when you need him? outerwear shouldn't be such a chore!)  then i ended up at bluefly, which i'd heard a lot about, but never actually shopped on before. after much hemming and hawing, and a brief encounter with a well meaning but fairly useless 'personal shopper', i finally decided on this one. so, fingers crossed that it a) arrives before we leave for chicago and b) is everything i've ever wanted in a raincoat.  who knew a nice looking, hooded coat would be so hard to find?

Comments

[Rachel]

I like your bicycle stuff! I bike everywhere!