https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:09:33 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy/page/2#post-590271 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:44:14 +0000 Kyle 590271@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Goodness, you are so efficient, Rae. I still have not downloaded my photos, much less organized a wonderful post like this. My consistent observation about fashion in Italy was the lack of color worn by the women. Neutrals, neutrals everywhere. The only bright and vibrant color I saw was in the stores and shop windows. Also, lots of Converse and boots. In Rome, I noticed a couple of women teetering along the cobblestones in 4-inch heels, hanging on to their companions for dear life. </p> <p>In addition to seeing all the sights, taking pictures and walking for miles, my son and I spent an afternoon shopping and brought back some things we really love. Highlights were jeans, Italian dress shirts and funky boots for him...and a couple of SportMax (MaxMara) pieces for me. I'm not sure they had ever had a customer as tall as me, at least that's what it seemed like. I snapped a few photos in the shop windows along Via Condotti and will try to get my act together soon to share. Hubby is not a shopper, so he did not join us for fashion day, but he took some amazing photos everywhere we went. So fun! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy/page/2#post-590264 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:31:41 +0000 ManidipaM 590264@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rae, about the DIY, what if you mock-appliqued the pieces? I mean, if you top-stitch the cutout and then glue them on, so that they look stitched and the detailing is stitched-on or embroidered? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy/page/2#post-590213 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:35:11 +0000 christy 590213@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Looks like a great trip - thanks so much for sharing the pictures! Love the Pisa one especially. Great outfits - you look amazing as always! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy/page/2#post-590211 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:30:34 +0000 rae 590211@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for reading and leaving such wonderful comments! </p> <p>MaryK, Sisterhood of the Travelling Long-johns has a nice ring to it. </p> <p>Mochi, love that you'll be hitting up some less touristy spots. I am so curious to hear about Milan!</p> <p>Vicki, trenches were longer than I've seen here this season. Knee length or longer. Boots of ALL forms abounded, booties too. And yes, travel to Thailand would have me doing up some custom items as well! I'm supposed to be doing SYC, but I don't know if I can stand it... after shopping so little these past weeks, there are suddenly so many things I want. o_O</p> <p>BL, Hm, perhaps Promod is French. I didn't look too hard at the website, but there were United Colors stores on practically every corner, so it's easy to see where French stores would be popular, too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy/page/2#post-590210 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:30:24 +0000 Mellllls 590210@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>i went crazy leather purse shopping when i was in italy, but other than that, i much agree with you. my husband bought a leather jacket and wallet. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy/page/2#post-590205 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:26:13 +0000 Sona 590205@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rae: it was so very cool to see a slice of Italy through your and hubby's lenses. great choices on the outfits and it made me want to buy a new trench ( so I bought one in red). Your musings on us having so many more choices for apparela nd shoes in America is also insightful. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy/page/2#post-590200 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:20:10 +0000 ButterflyLady 590200@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for sharing your photos - and I'm glad you had such a lovely honeymoon. The photo of you with the tower is lovely - definitely frame that! When I was a little girl, we went to Pisa when you could still walk up the tower part of the way, I remember it being really tricky as it was 'leaning' so much!</p> <p>We used to have Promod here in my UK town - I thought it was a French company? They have an online shop here <a href="http://www.promod.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.promod.co.uk/</a> but I don't know if they ship to the US. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy/page/2#post-590135 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:02:50 +0000 Fruitful 590135@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You both look adorably happy together, thanks for sharing wonderful pics as well as the lowdown on shopping! Will look out for Promod (and trenchcoats - which you do look amazing in!). Italy is beautiful through your camera and eyes xx </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy/page/2#post-590041 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:58:42 +0000 Anonymous 590041@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It was such fun to revisit Italy through your eyes. Thank you for the report and beautiful and interesting photos. You and hubs make a beautiful couple. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy/page/2#post-590021 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 03:12:45 +0000 Vicki 590021@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, you little traveling doll, I mean, UWP!!! You are so beautiful and your hubster is so handsome and I LOVE his hair in pic 1 (as well as his jacket in 4). Your musings are marvelous and I love your observations about the trenches (any particular colors stand out? neutrals? brights? black? long? above-the-knee?) and wedge sneakers and boots (are booties big, too?). All those items in 8-12 are fascinating and travel opens up a whole new world, doesn't it? I just got off the phone, moments ago, with my brother who is in Bangkok and he had some suits and shirts made while he's there.</p> <p>Your love of "shopping malls"??? We can handle that! There's our YLF L. A. meet-up on May 19, so we'll be welcoming you home with a BIG HUG and ready to shop with you for those wedge sneakers!! Glad you two had so much fun. ^_^ </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy#post-589997 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 02:30:17 +0000 celia 589997@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You look beautiful in the pictures.Hope you had a great honeymoon. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy#post-589968 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 01:49:06 +0000 Jewell 589968@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>So glad you took the time to share some trip details with us! I loved the pictures, and I'm sorry there weren't more shopportunities. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy#post-589783 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:00:02 +0000 Mochi 589783@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hi, rae. I was in Rome three years ago but this time we'll be up north, flying into Milan and staying in Bologna as a home base and making day trips around Emilia-Romagna. (But you ought to give a shoutout to your pizza place anyway--I'm sure we'll all be taking notes!) I expect it'll be such a different experience, since you couldn't get more tourist-packed than Rome (which I adored, by the way), and supposedly Bologna is not particularly touristy. It's a university city and so I'm curious to see how that plays out in terms of people's style. I'm not sure there will be a chance to spend more than a night in Milan...thanks to your post, I will feel even less guilty if I don't find any souvenirs that I fall madly in love with (and I'm also appreciating Angie's philosophy, that you'll appreciate your things more, the more selectively you buy).</p> <p>Since I'm now fully in nostalgia mode for my Rome travels, indulge me in reminiscing...I didn't buy myself anything that time, but I found a little boutique right near the Vatican that I ended up visiting twice. The guy who ran it was French, and was so friendly. I guess I remember this because I traveled alone that time, and for most of the trip didn't have many encounters with people. I bought my mom this crushed velvet jacket (in the pic). It's really much more gorgeous than you can see here, and she treasures it. So I feel like I bought enough souvenirs, seeing that it made my mom so happy. </p> <p>The second time I was at this boutique, there was a young woman there with her mom. She was trying on one of this designer's skirts, which had this construction in which you had to wrap it in a certain way to make it work--deconstructed it was like this weirdly-shaped piece of cloth. For at least fifteen minutes while I was there, mother and daughter were trying to figure it out, wrapping and unwrapping the daughter numerous times. I'm sure the skirt would eventually look very stylish, once they managed to decode it! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy#post-589767 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:36:15 +0000 Kiwichik 589767@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hi so cool reading your post and admiring you and of course Italy. Hubbie &amp; I travel to Europe every couple of years to visit family iin Amsterdam and try &amp; branch out to visit other places. Next year we planned to visit Italy so I'm adding this post to my research. Thanks for a great read. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy#post-589691 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:57:32 +0000 christieanne 589691@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You and DH are both such good photographers - nice moments captured there. Seems like a fun trip but it's always good to come home, on that I agree! Pisa picture is perfect!<br /> I could see you being tempted by the dresses more than the bags actually. Guess i need to watch for your Princess side in your WIW. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy#post-589676 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:31:10 +0000 Meredith1953 589676@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What beautiful pictures! The scenery is gorgeous and you both look so happy. The pic of you both supporting the Leaning Tower of Pisa is just a riot. When I was there our group did a shot with everyone lined up and leaning in that direction! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy#post-589570 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:48:59 +0000 rae 589570@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Natalie, I'm with you - I think I'm addicted to trenches now! I can't believe I hadn't had one before. They are UWP gear for sure. Now I want one in black, and of course I'm contemplating a dye job to get a citron one. </p> <p>Lyn... DIY is a fab idea! I couldn't do the entire bag, but Manidipa's idea to embellish a base bag is workable. I couldn't do all the fine stitching for each piece on a premade bag, of course... I wonder if it would look okay to glue the little pieces on? If I was neat and did an otherwise elaborate picture? </p> <p>Mochi, I'm SO happy you will still get to Italy! What cities will you be visiting? If you will be in Rome at all, I can get the names of our favorite pizza shop (went there probably 4 times!) and the very helpful bike rental place, if you are interested. </p> <p>Angie, a million euro would have helped for sure! For starters, I'd have hired a car to take me to the outlet mall. </p> <p>Steph, I was totally excited for the flea markets I'd heard about, but I really only came across one, and it was pretty overpriced. There was the big leather market in Florence, but not what I think of as a flea market, since things were largely the same from one stall to the next. The flea market where I bought my handbag consisted of about 6 stalls, and was set up in the parking lot across from our hotel - a good ways away from the main drag, past the EUR areas. Perhaps this was because it is not a high tourist season?</p> <p>Claire, my mom is from HI, and she always said the same. I remember one year she went to visit, the big excitement was the arrival of an Old Navy. I mean, I like ON, but it was weird for such a widespread chain to be considered new and special like that. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy#post-589569 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:48:57 +0000 MsMary 589569@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Squee!! If I can't go to Italy, sending my long underwear is the next best thing!! :)</p> <p>Your travel photos are fab! The first few took my breath away, and the Pisa one cracked me up!!</p> <p>SO HAPPY you had a great trip! Your little kitty necklace is fantastic and will be a great reminder for years to come!</p> <p>And OMG I love that "Casa Dolce Casa" bag! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy#post-589567 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:48:07 +0000 marianna 589567@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Love this post, thanks for sharing! Looks like an amazing trip and now I'm itching to travel! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy#post-589551 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:28:44 +0000 kellygirl 589551@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What a fabulously stylish vacation and fun read, Rae! Your pics are SO gorgeous and hilarious (Pisa.) You and DH make such an adorable couple--it looks like he has a fun sense of style too. The bag and dress pics are awesome. I'm not really a bag person but those are amazing. I love the detail on the "house" one! </p> <p>Welcome home! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy#post-589548 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:19:31 +0000 AJ 589548@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh so glad you had a good time! Thanks for sharing your vacation photos. I especially like your "pushing over the tower" pic! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy#post-589544 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:15:10 +0000 Anonymous 589544@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rae, what a wonderful read! Thank you for sharing your trip with us. I'm so glad you had those two dresses. You just never know what the weather's going to do. I find it hard to shop on trips too, as returning isn't as easy. When we got back from HI, I said to DH that I never wanted to live on a tropical island because the shopping would stink! Everything's expensive and has to be flown in, and you can't just drive a little further to get to better stores or a mall! Your little enamel tiger was the perfect thing to buy to bring home, and he didn't take up much room in your suitcase either! So.....trenches and wedge sneakers, huh? I'll keep that in mind, lol! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy#post-589513 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:48:21 +0000 MNsara 589513@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow - your pics are great and make me long for travel again (there's still one left to get thru college).</p> <p>The Pisa pic is priceless ;-)</p> <p>Too bad about the prices when shopping there. My daughter felt the same way in Belgium and France. She even had me mail her winter coat because the $45 postage was cheaper than anything she could even thrift in Europe.</p> <p>I love the cat you DID bring home. He's purrfect! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy#post-589500 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:36:58 +0000 HelenInCanada 589500@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Love your Italy pictures, rae. The Pisa shot of the two of you is awesome, and needs to be enlarged and framed for your home!</p> <p>True, Italy is madly overrun with tourists and it affects the vibe of the cities (especially during the day). Aw, sorry to hear the experience wasn't 100% magical for you.</p> <p>Cute new pendant! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy#post-589499 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:36:13 +0000 Transcona Shannon 589499@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I really enjoyed reading this Rae - I've never been to Europe so it's nice to get a sense of it all through someone else's eyes. Interesting about the fashion and I think it's a good sign that you weren't tempted to buy something that wasn't a 10 for you. Man...you look AMAZING in a trench - slick, chic and sexy! So glad you had a good time! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy#post-589498 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:35:11 +0000 ironkurtin 589498@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It was so great to see these - I met my husband in Florence and travelled around Italy 20 years ago (eek), so this was special to me. I definitely remember fashion in Italy being very expensive even with a great exchange rate! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy#post-589493 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:30:11 +0000 Isabel 589493@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, I LOVE this post !! Thank you for sharing it with us. You looked wonderful, BTW.</p> <p>The bag in 14 cracks me up and gives me pause. The fact that it depicts the interior of a house and says "home sweet home" is very interesting. That one would carry around a memento of one's house with the the words on it. Some days , I want to run away from mine and I don't want my bag to remind me of home. LOL !</p> <p>( And I find the same thing that you found...I go on vacation with a bunch of clothes and wear the same thing over and over. ) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy#post-589486 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:05:20 +0000 Vix 589486@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Great pictures; thanks for sharing! Glad your trip ended up being so special. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy#post-589481 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:59:55 +0000 mrseccentric 589481@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wonderful pics and amazing trip!! i was in Italy for a couple of weeks in 1980 with a youth orchestra, it was just the best ever. i hope i can get my hubby there some day!</p> <p>Mochi, when i was in italy there were lots of street vendors/flea markets and i got some outstanding men's cotton shirts for nothing. Rae, did you notice any street sale action on your trip? if so, it might be worth checking out. Shopping is fun, but there's a helluva lot else to do in Italy so if it doesn't pan out, eh.</p> <p>Rae thank you so much for all the great pictures and explanations! So very fun to read, and you look so beatiful in the pictures! Happy Friday!! steph </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-at-home-and-abroad-plus-musings-on-italian-fashion-pic-heavy#post-589480 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:53:11 +0000 Suz 589480@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rae, you are such a beauty. What gorgeous photos, and thank you for sharing your trip impressions. I hope the transition home is smooth! And your necklace is so sweet. </p>