Chic mac from APC
I have been looking for years for a chic rain mac – not a trenchcoat because I don’t suit trenchcoats and I also think they make you look a bit try hard – and also in the wrong circumstances, like a stripper.
I mean a mac. Like an old fashioned Mackintosh from the Mackintosh shop – but not actually one of those because they are seven hundred pounds.
Just a sturdy single breasted mac! Could I find one? No. So I got a beige men’s mac from Gap, worn it crumpled and large in a nod to those hateful Frenchies, Vetements (if you think I’m going to bother dignifying them with a circonoflex, you can forget it).
But had I known about this total, complete and utter beauty from the very underrated APC I would have saved up for it. It is E420, which is about £320 but it is just so great. Shame it doesn’t come in beige, but you can’t have everything.
That is really nice. I hate double breasted coats, they make me look double-bosomed, but they’re everywhere. I like how it is called “Chic Mac”, I need those sort of pointers.
This is lovely. On the off chance that it doesn’t rain all summer (ha!) and the mac is unnecessary, what are your thoughts/ recommendations on shorts? I don’t have great legs, semi decent calves but terrible thighs, but I’d like a pair of shorts to run around in this year rather than just summer dresses and jeans. I know I can’t pull off short shorts any more but I am surely too young for knee length, and they are surely hideously unflattering?! Do you have any thoughts? Elaine x
Elaine look around hard for a pair of culottes, or cropped wide trousers. I made a pair myself by cutting off the bottom 1 foot of a pair of very wide leg trousers. They stop mid-calf at a point that is flattering precisely to me. You can also find some of these wide-leg crops that suit you, too – you just have to look around hard for them. OR get a pair of loose, comfy wide leg trousers and take them to a tailor or DIY x
Excellent, practical advice as always, Esther, thank you! I will start looking hard. Elaine x
Hmm. Do you like this? It looks nice in the photo but is suspiciously cheap.
http://www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/prod_10701_10001_028020600286_-1
no way of knowing until you try it on
Totally off topic but how was the interiors course you wrote about a while back? Would love to see a post on it x
I didn’t do it! xx
Love the chic Mac. I have one similar by Columbia, it looks good with jeans and skirts. It took me years to find a proper one too.
Elaine…try cropped capris, they’re all the rage here in Canada and you people in the UK areway ahead of us fashion wise.