Another box, another new stylist! Here’s the note from Cami,
Hi Melissa, I hope you are doing wonderful today! I’m so sorry that the last box wasn’t all you hoped for. Thanks for your feedback and Pinterest board. They help tremendously! Ok so don’t poison me for sending you the same intercoastal print as what you got in your last box! 🙂 I just know you liked the print, just not in bell sleeve form so I had to have you try it in skirt form! Pair this skirt with the button down peplum top, tights and tall boots for a chic kinda casual/dressy look. You can also wear this skirt with the twist top for a chic feel. Both of these tops will pair perfectly with the camo jeans for a trendy but lightly edgy outfit. You can also add this vest for an added touch of flair and warmth. I can’t wait to hear what you think! With Joy, Cami.
Well, it’s another mostly miss of a box, unfortunately. I did have a lot of fun digging through my closet to pair with the items in the box, but ultimately, this is again too far over the line into business casual or workplace wear. I work at home in my yoga pants and hoodies most of the time – I need less business casual and more “things I can throw on when going to the grocery store so it’s not always jeans and a t-shirt.” At this point, I’m not sure if any of these subscription services are at all geared towards delivering what I’m looking for since I keep getting miss after miss. Anyway, on to the contents of the box this month!
Item: Ryan Wythe Lenora 3/4 Sleeve Button Down Peplum Shirt
Cost: $55
Item: Marybelle Intracoastal Skirt
Cost: $65
Paired With: Boots, skinny jeans, crop jacket (all mine)
So, Cami suggested that I pair the skirt and peplum top together which.. Oof, that’s a big old nope on my shape. I think the peplum top is too big to begin with (even though I changed my top size down one size after last month), and since my waistline is so high, the peplum covers nearly half the skirt. So, on to photo 2, I paired the top with a red belt to bring in my waistline, and added skinny jeans with the boots. It’s a little better, but the peplum cut just does my hips (already the widest part of my body) no favors. If I had a larger bust to balance out the peplum, I think it would work better, but.. Yeah, that’s not in the cards for me. It’s also white, which, I mean, this is me, we’re just asking for a pasta sauce spill or something incredibly awful to ruin that shirt forever after the first time I wear it. As for the skirt, it looked way better paired with a crop jacket to show off my waistline, and the cut is actually super cute, but.. it’s pink. *sigh* I have my profile set to avoid pink, yet there it is. The colors on the checkout sheet say, “Red and White,” but I’ll be damned if that isn’t fuchsia with pink stars. It’s also, again, too dressy, so even if I did get it in black instead, I probably still wouldn’t have kept it. Both of these go back.
Item: Morgan & Walker Gowanus Camo Print Jeans with Double Zipper Detail
Cost: $75
Paired With: Jacket, t-shirt, boots (all mine)
I know I went over my dislike of camo with Stitch Fix before. I just.. It’s not me. It’s not something I feel comfortable wearing. I’m not a hunter and I’m not in the military, and.. EHH. The fit was really odd, and you can’t tell it from the photo, but the ankles were REALLY loose – like, suddenly bootcut loose which was weird since they’re skinny jeans. The waistband was also really loose and had a bad gap in the back. So, between the print and fit, the jeans go back.
Item: Ralph Lauren Winnipeg Quilted Vest with Faux Leather Accent
Cost: $129
Paired With: Jeans, shoes, top (all mine)
Eeechhh no. I think the look on my face says it all. It was too big around the middle and even too big across my hips (again, despite adjusting my size down a notch in my profile), and WAYY too long. It’s also more preppy soccer mom than hippy grungeling, and was just such a huge stylistic miss here. I also need to confess that I never saw the point of puffer vests like this – they keep the warmest parts of your body warm, but it’s my arms and hands that end up cold, so I basically need the reverse of this? They just never made sense to me.
Item: Kiyonna Knit Jersey Twist Top
Cost: $58
Paired With: Jeans, Shoes (all mine)
I’d always wanted to try this exact top from Kiyonna without commitment, so I was actually sort of pleased to see this show up in the box this month. Again, it’s probably over the line into business casual or “date night” instead of plain old casual. But, it fits nice and looks great on – I just worry that the cut is a little too “maternity” and that instead of making me look thin by disguising my middle, the extra fabric below the waistline makes me look like I have more bulk in the middle than I do. I’m still on the fence about this, but if I do keep anything, this will be the only item. I really hate the idea of wasting my $20 styling fee. *sigh*
The box merchandise total came to $382. Unfortunately, the only thing I’m thinking about keeping is the Kiyonna top, and after deducting the prepaid styling fee, it would only cost me an additional $38 to keep that top. It *is* a nice piece to add to my wardrobe, but something that nice, I might get to wear maybe 10 times a year at most, and I just don’t have a need for dressy stuff like that. I sort of wanted more casual, fun printed tops (nicer than a t-shirt, but not as nice as something you’d wear to an office job). Jeans are great, and colored denim would be fun! Crops, capris, destructed denim, etc. Maxi dresses, cotton blend dresses I can throw a jacket or cardigan over. I mean, I feel like there are options here, and all these boxes keep missing the target. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong or if I’m not setting my profile up the right way.. Well, one more box until I give up on these altogether. Maybe it’s just not going to work for me at all anymore which is a bummer because I love the idea of someone else picking out clothes for me, but I can’t seem to land a stylist that gets me, and getting assigned a new one after a bad box means that no one has a chance to learn and adapt to make it work.
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