Thinking of ordering this coat..

Ahh....I bought two coats from Macy's on Black Friday...thought I got a good deal, and while I like the coats, I don't love them. Just took a bunch of photos, and realized that the colour of the coats I bought (one is described as 'smoke' colour, the other is an olive-y military green) aren't that great on me. Or rather, the green looked kind of neat, but the jacket cut me off at my widest point. I disliked the pictures so much that I couldn't bring myself to post them here. I know, I know...I'll get there eventually. The good news is that I learned how valuable it is to take pictures!

In the meantime, I tried on a red coat at Talbot's a couple of weeks ago, when they were having a 50% off all outerwear sale - I loved the shape of the coat, but wasn't crazy about the particular shade of red on me. It was Angie's red coat post that got me going in that direction. Just love her in the J Crew Metro coat, and would like something like that for me too, just that I don't think the collar would work on me.

This is the red one I tried on in Talbots:

http://www.talbots.com/online/.....e=cat70008

The shape was nice ....just wasn't 100% sure on the shade of red and the same-colour buttons on the coat.

Meanwhile, fast forward to Black Friday sales, and I spy this one on sale for a good price:

http://www.talbots.com/online/.....e=cat90030

I would really like to buy a non-black winter coat this year. What does everyone think of the blue tweed-y coat? Does it look matronly? Is the colour weird? My local Talbots store doesn't have these to try on...though it looks almost exactly (shape and style) like the red one that I did try on.

Order or keep looking?

Thanks,

Sara
PS -lots of Saras and Sarahs on the forum - I'm another one I know 'velvetychocolate' is cumbersome, but I came up with that one on the fly after seeing 'chewyspaghetti' when I first started reading here.

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14 years ago

Louise

Veteran

Beautiful colour doesn't matronly at all to me, got to be worth a try x

Suz

(website)

Looks like a beautiful coat, Velvety Sara!

I would definitely give it a try especially if you get free returns.

sarah

Hello to another Sara(h) - it is confusing, isn't it?

I love that coat - the color is stunning (what is your coloring?). Not matronly in the least.

velvetychocolate

Sarah - I have blonde hair and blue eyes.

There's free shipping with no minimum order this weekend, and I'm pretty sure I can return it to the local store (15 minute drive from here). There is also an *additional* 30% off everything, including sale stuff. Brings the coat down to a pretty reasonable price, I think. Not insane bargain category, but after trying on a few of their coats in-store the other weekend, the quality is better than average imo.

Scary to be ordering/returning all the time though. Kind of mad at myself for "buying into" the Black Friday madness the other day at Macy's. I bought two coats mainly because they weren't black and because they were on some sort of super-special morning price. A rash decision.

I want to be more like Suz who took the time to find just the right puffer coat for her.

MsMary

I like the blue coat!!

I had the exact same experience at Macy's last year. Ended up buying and returning a couple of coats there before finding just the right one.

Angie

Fashion Stylist

Go for it. I love that teal coat!

Oh, gosh, that will look lovely with your coloring!

lyn*

Go for the teal! It looks fabulous Chocolate-Sarah

Ok ...one lady-like blue/teal tweed coat is on it's way to me. Free shipping and an additional 30% off the sale price.

Hope I won't be Mortified in Macy's when I go to return the other two coats I bought on Friday.

If anyone's interested in any of the coats at Talbots, just wanted to say that the brand seems to run a bit on the large side (might size down if you're thinking of ordering), having already gone to a local store two weeks ago to try on some of their coats. The quality seems really nice, compared to a bunch of other mass-market brands I tried on at Macy's. I have not yet tried J Crew though, and I can tell from Angie's pictures that their coats are nicely made.

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