Mohair lubbins

At various points during my teenage years, I would raid my mother's closet for things I could appropriate for my own use. A floor length red and black floral suspenderesque dress seemed worthy to wear over baby tees to the dances at my nerd camp, ruffley cravat blouses served for romantic, goth-y pirate looks, and a short sleeved baby blue mohair sweater worked well on pin-up-ish days, worn with the ever-present double row rhinestone festooned black velvet collar.


Mohair conjures up images of Liv Tyler in Empire Records




Kurt Cobain

(aside: There was an RA at camp that sang this just like this in the talent show, a hottie in geeky black rimmed glasses way way way before they were universally trending, I'll tell you, got alllllllll the girls swooning. probably a big reason this is my favourite Nirvana next to Lithium)


or my most formative heroine in her Debut



Recently, this editorial put furry sweaters back in the forefront of my mind

and I started rationalizing whether I wanted to/should go ahead and buy the fluffy giant pine green Dries Van Noten mohair cardigan that was at the time on Yoox. I was also obsessed with pine green that week, so it seemed to kill two birds with one stone, but it was a size M, and knowing from some of my ebay-Dries or ebay-designer-goods-in-general experiences, it's not such a good idea for a petite person to try to 'make giant sizes work' sight unseen.

Imagine like this but with a zipper down a V neck front, and piney turquoise richness

from jak & jil


On my second trip to a J. Crew store ever, earlier this year (I've only recently started that retail-gateway-drug) I happened upon this fluffy monstrosity, also a size M.

I tried so hard to love it in the dressing room, as it really gave me that Bjorky feeling, but it was so thick, heavy, practically felted, and at the same time badly fitting around the neckline that I couldn't convince myself to give it a home.

I then discovered, through the J. Crew grapevine that consists of obsessively poring over J. Crew fans' blog posts, the existence of this cardigan...
the Mohair Souffle in heather camel

I missed the chance to buy one secondhand, again I think it was an M but I probably would have bit if it wasn't already sold. I figured I would just keep an eye out, maybe it would pop up eventually. Old Navy also had a 'mohair blend' option which had the same fiber contents listed as the Mohair Souffle, but the colours were more on the brights side (which I considered, but never settled on).


Tonight, as C was at his football(soccer) game, I perused my 'Shop It To Me' account, with an eye out for camel coats and leather jackets. Luckily, I had also kept the sweaters category checked, because what popped up but this



mohair
camel
Dries
cardigan sans buttons (C has a phobia)
half price
XS
!

Suffice it to say, I have now placed my first Yoox order ever. Beware of gateway drugs and enablers like Shopittome. And I'll soon be having a love affair with my sweater, going on wistful romantic walks like this...