Did you guys see this comment posted on racked.com? Do you think she's a member of the cashmere mafia?
"If you are a scarf and shawl collector/wearer/purchaser, you will enjoy this. If you are not, skip as it will bore the heck out of you. It is one of my fellow scarfie's recollection of yesterday. Warning there are abbreviations which are strange (i.e. POO) which most likely are design names:
"The scarf counter to me was a letdown. Jans recall of patterns is very good. Also several Hola Flamencas, Champignons reissue, and oddly several Grand Fonds II in a colorway that I once had and let go recently. After much consideration, decided against re-acquiring it. There were many colorways of Cheval a Charactere, Onde de Chic and Passage a Tokyo, and Vol Amoureux (the butterfly one). Nothing vintage, although Im still green with envy that one of our gang found a stunning Art des Steppes detail! That and Jans Monnaies were probably the most unusual. The Au Coeur de la Vie was in orange, and I saw two pink ones (one snapped up by part of the posse). The carres were $225.
There were many racks of RTW, and a long table of china and crystal. No child-sized ashtrays, but I DID find a cup and saucer with a spaniel!
Alas no jewelry to be found, but there were shelves upon shelves of Garden Party totes in all colors and sizes.
Tucked in a back corner were plisses, blankets, gloves, baby stuff, mousselines and cashmeres. I think everyone got ahold of some lovely Giverny PM mousses, and the plisses were mostly either hot pink or b/w Hs. There were some lovely white with black c/h Alliances du Monde, and a Souvenir de Paris, but nothing that jumped out at me. At which point I went on full-on whiny-baby-namby-poopy mode! I wanted cashmeres! I wanted GM mousses! Pout, pout!
But gathering by the shoes with the posse was fun as we looked at each others haul and had fun picking through the groups culls.
Then the miracles started happening! A round of GM cashmeres came out unbeknownst to me (insert wails of grief here), and Menelle was an angel and handed me a perfect pink GFII GM cash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its one of my fave designs and the color is so soft and lovely. Happy dance abounds!!! Thats when the vets coached me that the trick is to hover around the back stock room to grab stuff as it comes out. Beeline! I missed another/the last round of cashmeres but props to the posse for throwing elbows and grabbing a great stash! There were 3 Tohu Bohus a black, a bright green and a sadly, disastrously pulled orange. Also in the group were a white/brown Vie du Fleuve, black/grey/white Bolduc au Carre, bright pink Libres Comme lAir, blue and white Capucines, bright pink Pani, orange Vie du Gran Nord, oatmeal Plumes that was alas full of holes, and natural/black Brides de Gala. A thousand thanks to Menelle for the GFII words cannot express.
PM cash was in short supply as well. Lots of Faubourg details in lovely reds and greens but I decided to hold off for a Hanukkah-themed PM cash, haha.
But the waiting by the stockroom strategy really paid off, because the mousses started flying! In my bag fell a cobalt blue Cheval a Fleuri GM, a violet/grey Bolduc GM, a blue PM POO and a black/yellow/hot pink Ronde de Jockeys. Also spotted were turquoise/white/blue GM Soleil, turquoise PM Cheval a Fleuri, hot pink Bolduc PM, black GM Au Gre de Vent, pastel GM Au Gre de Vent, light blue GM Danse, an acid yellow PM Alternateur, chartreuse stole whose name escapes me but is cursive letters; same design in orangey-pink PM. I spotted a pink/blue GM changeant Fleurs de Fuchsia but it was in a non-posse bag (wah), but two posse members got changeants (a copper Grafisme stole, and a light brown losange with black c/h). Jeanne was great company and had an eagle-eye for spotting folks returning things to the pile (got the blue POO by snatching it from a returner) and seeing the stock room curtain flutter with impending new arrivals.""
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