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.

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. ^_^

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.

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

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!

We used to have Promod here in my UK town - I thought it was a French company? They have an online shop here http://www.promod.co.uk/ but I don't know if they ship to the US.

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.

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.

Thanks for reading and leaving such wonderful comments!

MaryK, Sisterhood of the Travelling Long-johns has a nice ring to it.

Mochi, love that you'll be hitting up some less touristy spots. I am so curious to hear about Milan!

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

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.

Looks like a great trip - thanks so much for sharing the pictures! Love the Pisa one especially. Great outfits - you look amazing as always!

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?

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.

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!