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clothes_horse · Dooney & Bourke

anyone wanna discuss the april Lucky?

Aurora · Marc Jacobs

I was disappointed as usual. I hated the spring layering spread. When it is hot as h*ll in Houston the last thing I want to do is create an outfit consisting of 4 or more shirts/vests/blazers/etc.

relrel · Marc Jacobs

clothes_horse wrote:

i was happy to see how thick it is.

Eh. I was excited too when I picked it up out of the mailbox and it was nice and hefty. Seven minutes later and I was reaching for the back of the cereal box. Lucky bores me. It's a good thing it's been free for a while. I haven't actually paid for a subscription in probably two years- I don't get bills or renewal cards or anything. Lucky just shows up in my mailbox. However, in my upcoming move I'm afraid I'll lose it. I'm gonna try to transfer the subscription but I'm not holding my breath.

Oh- I just remembered something that bugs me about Lucky. On a lot of thier clothing spreads they only show the tops of the shows so you can't actually know what the heel height is. This annoys me so much!

Kitty · Hermes

One thing that bothered me is all the "real life" people they profiled all had glamorous jobs/careers and perfect figures. I'd like them feature real people w/ a variety of careers and body types.

lynnie · Chanel

as far as individual pieces go, i always find more i like in Lucky than in any other magazine. this issue was no exception, though i can't afford most of it.
did NOT like their layering spread either- especially the first one where she was just wearing blocks of 8 different colors. blahhhhhh- looked bad.
My favorite thing was the ex libris candle with the book on it, adorable!

jacks435 · Kenneth Cole

Also, I was surprised by Parker Posey's picks. It seems like the editors have a lot of influence over what the cover celeb chooses, b/c they always pick similar things. I would have expected Parker to have more eclectic choices!

kittenheels · Coach

I was initially so hopeful! I made a pot of tea and was all ready to curl up with my kittys and read it - but it was so short. I just didn't like the layering at all - it sounded so promising, but it was so bland. I like the beauty tips and the profiles of new designers - and the individual pieces...but something about the entire magazine is boring.

AllieGurl · Marc Jacobs

I loved the dress on the front cover. Other than that , nothing excited me.

FashionFreak · Kenneth Cole

Kitty wrote:

One thing that bothered me is all the "real life" people they profiled all had glamorous jobs/careers and perfect figures. I'd like them feature real people w/ a variety of careers and body types.

I thought the same thing when I saw that. I actually kind of skipped over it when I realized that I have nothing in common with the featured girls.

halleybird · Hermes

it was OK. I think a lot of the outfits they post work well in large cities with people who work in artistic industries, but I miss the days when they sometimes had stuff that people like me could wear to work without getting laughed at.

Also, I can't forgive their little blurb about how "cute" the ballet-flat Crocs are. *shudder*

bloomie · Marc Jacobs

I loved the skirt from UO in the feature on full skirts.

bloomie · Marc Jacobs

FashionFreak wrote:

Kitty wrote:

One thing that bothered me is all the "real life" people they profiled all had glamorous jobs/careers and perfect figures. I'd like them feature real people w/ a variety of careers and body types.

I thought the same thing when I saw that. I actually kind of skipped over it when I realized that I have nothing in common with the featured girls.

I thought they were a little young for the careers they have.

ILoveChoo · Hermes

I liekd it a lot more than usual.
The layerign thing was rediculous though. Those people were literally wearing liek 4 outfits! I think that would be SO hot and uncomfortable.

also- do people really leave long coats on all day as part of their outfit? Cause there were so many that looked cute, but it was just a tank under an outerwear type coat (and they were tryign to say it was good for the office- it would be inappropriate without the coat, and I'd feel silly keepign the coat on....)

littlelatina · BCBG

I ditto everything you girls said....Who in their right mind would wear that many clothes at once???

I"m in Texas, but even if I were in NYC I would be burining up! Besides, they weren't even cute clothes, they were blah, and unwearable! Not impressed!

halah · Kenneth Cole

Wow, I felt the same. All excited to read it on the plane Sunday and ended up getting more inspiration out of my jcrew catalog (which BTW I used the lucky tabs to tab stuff in there instead). The layering seemed a little off like they were trying too hard to have a ton of layers...and I just didn't feel like they had any new ideas it seems like the same sort of stuff that was in last months issue.

Oh the "What I want now" yellow and gray was nice but heck the ST girls already turned me onto that Anthropologie top months ago ;)

kenzie · Chanel

I was bored. Like lynnie, I did find individual pieces that I liked and I also adored the dress on the front cover. However, the layering- what? There are much better ways to layer than the atrocities that they showed.

And what was with the gym gear as work wear? Seriously? Who wears track pants and jersey shirts like that? The only one that was acceptable was the grey sweatshirt and I thought that was a little too oversized. Too bad I have a grey sweatshirt that I've been wearing with skirts like that for a while.

Sigh. An overall disappointment.

jaymiek · Coach

kenzie wrote:

And what was with the gym gear as work wear? Seriously? Who wears track pants and jersey shirts like that?

seriously! The track pants looked like they were made from trash bags! I don't know what the heck they were thinking. They were like MC Hammer pants but worse.

scarlett · Marc Jacobs

jacks435 wrote:

Also, I was surprised by Parker Posey's picks. It seems like the editors have a lot of influence over what the cover celeb chooses, b/c they always pick similar things. I would have expected Parker to have more eclectic choices!

I saw her in a Whole Foods in NYC once, and she looked more eclectic in person than she came across in the article. Her hair was kind of big and poufy, almost like she'd teased it, and the thing I remember most was she had on rainbow striped socks pulled all the way up, and black flats with a little strap across them.

I thought that layering article was ridiculous. Sometimes I see specific pieces and really want them, but of course they're always too expensive for me!

jacks435 · Kenneth Cole

scarlett wrote:

jacks435 wrote:

Also, I was surprised by Parker Posey's picks. It seems like the editors have a lot of influence over what the cover celeb chooses, b/c they always pick similar things. I would have expected Parker to have more eclectic choices!

I saw her in a Whole Foods in NYC once, and she looked more eclectic in person than she came across in the article. Her hair was kind of big and poufy, almost like she'd teased it, and the thing I remember most was she had on rainbow striped socks pulled all the way up, and black flats with a little strap across them.

I thought that layering article was ridiculous. Sometimes I see specific pieces and really want them, but of course they're always too expensive for me!

Scarlett, that's totally how I pictured her -- more funky and offbeat (instead of a dress and layered necklaces: the Lucky uniform!).

carmenb513 · Coach

relrel wrote:

clothes_horse wrote:

i was happy to see how thick it is.
Eh. I was excited too when I picked it up out of the mailbox and it was nice and hefty. Seven minutes later and I was reaching for the back of the cereal box. Lucky bores me. It's a good thing it's been free for a while. I haven't actually paid for a subscription in probably two years- I don't get bills or renewal cards or anything. Lucky just shows up in my mailbox. However, in my upcoming move I'm afraid I'll lose it. I'm gonna try to transfer the subscription but I'm not holding my breath.

Oh- I just remembered something that bugs me about Lucky. On a lot of thier clothing spreads they only show the tops of the shows so you can't actually know what the heel height is. This annoys me so much!

yeah that top of the shoe thing nearly drives me over the edge

BUT......... I still enjoy reading through every month.I get something out of being that it's only $12 for the year.

-- Edited by carmenb513 at 00:23, 2007-03-14