ESPRIT
Remember Esprit from the 80s? It was a big trend in the hamlet of St. James to have an ESPRIT school bag. Mine was gray with a black ESPRIT in block letters. It was so uber-cool, and uber-unoriginal. Like my Swatch watch and my Guess? jeans. Whoo-hoo. Remember those bags though? They were about as basic as a bag could get...
Anyway, Esprit is a chain store here in Europe. They are all over the place in Germany. Our PX recently started carrying a few Esprit items. I was surprised at how cute those items were, so when we stopped to see the cathedral in Ulm on Monday, I popped into the Esprit store there. I was pleasantly surprised to find a lot of great stuff...I'm still struggling to find the right balance between cute, functional and slightly trendy but not too youthful, you know?
I bought two shirts and a very cute dress for around 80 Euro, which is a bit expensive, but I'm hoping the quality is good. I thought I had found my niche in J Crew, but I'm finding out (the hard way) that J Crew stuff is super-expensive and not very good quality. Not very good at all. I will have to report back to you about the quality level of the Esprit clothes that I got. In the meantime, don't buy anything except pants and shorts from J Crew. Steer away from the shirts and sweaters.
I wore the dress to a hail and farewell last night, and let's just say Hans gave it two thumbs up.
Anyway, just thought I'd let you all know that you can shop Esprit online in the US. They even have an outlet. Visit them at www.espritshop.com
There you go girlfriends, your tip of the day!
Anyway, Esprit is a chain store here in Europe. They are all over the place in Germany. Our PX recently started carrying a few Esprit items. I was surprised at how cute those items were, so when we stopped to see the cathedral in Ulm on Monday, I popped into the Esprit store there. I was pleasantly surprised to find a lot of great stuff...I'm still struggling to find the right balance between cute, functional and slightly trendy but not too youthful, you know?
I bought two shirts and a very cute dress for around 80 Euro, which is a bit expensive, but I'm hoping the quality is good. I thought I had found my niche in J Crew, but I'm finding out (the hard way) that J Crew stuff is super-expensive and not very good quality. Not very good at all. I will have to report back to you about the quality level of the Esprit clothes that I got. In the meantime, don't buy anything except pants and shorts from J Crew. Steer away from the shirts and sweaters.
I wore the dress to a hail and farewell last night, and let's just say Hans gave it two thumbs up.
Anyway, just thought I'd let you all know that you can shop Esprit online in the US. They even have an outlet. Visit them at www.espritshop.com
There you go girlfriends, your tip of the day!
Comments
I had a couple of ESPRIT bags. One was red with white lettering, and one was green with white lettering. My green one was actually a little different in that it didn't have the block letters going across--it had a cirlce logo or something and was more of a square shape. I can barely remember.
Thanks for the ESPRIT website. I too, used to have one of their bags. You are very good at tips. I love reading your blog.
I forgot to add my Spuds Mackenzie T-shirt, my Coca-Cola T-shirt and my ESLEEP nightshirt to that list.
What am I forgetting?
Jelly bracelets, ropes of BB necklaces, friendship bracelets, friendship pins worn on shoelaces.
I will admit that I liked all kinds of musical disasters like Rick Astley. I still admit that I download ABBA onto my iPod.
So you know that I would admit it if I liked NKOTB. I didn't. I'm as shocked as you are.
I was also informed they were going to be, and I quote, "bigger than the Beatles!"; I wonder how that worked out for them?
Yes I had an ESPRIT bag too, but my friends and I bought white ones 'cause they were cheaper, then we tie dyed 'em with green & blue Rit.
I find my jean rolling/pinning expertise comes in quite handy since all of my daughter's pants are too long. She's all ready for the next wave.
Now I've learned the trick: If you want lots of comments on a post, just wax nostalgic on the days when us gen-xers were pre-teens. We love to talk about how cool we were.