Its getting cold these days huh...I barely knew that (cos I always stay in lately), until answering machine keeps rolling something like this: Hey,Sweets, so the other day I was at barney's and my eyes were all on a pashmina sweater, but before I run into anything stupid or critically shame enough for you to judge, I'd like to hear from you.. .only a lit bit, dont give me the whole history about men style thing. Thanks."
Okay! Fair enough, so lets do the shop till you drop thing....nah..just kidding, but I got some ideas while you boys might be considering.
In Autumn, for cashmere (or pashmina) you could always go to barney's, some of the best dressed and well educated buyers are working for them. I learned how to choose a perfect tie for my dad's business meeting in there when I was 17. Dont play coy, just ask whatever you need to know. Its not really necessary that your cashmere sweater got all the prada edging vibe, but a good fitting is a must, also, the good quality reflects the warm, silky,tender feeling of your skin which must be solved by Trying them on.
You'd also like to try bloomingdale's or other big names, but be careful, we got some feedbacks and sometimes they are not good.
On buying the brand, almost every single famous name you can pop up is making cashmere these days,Like Malo, Tse,( as you can see in there ads, cashmere is always the point.) Pringle of Scotland also mentioned by cashmere wearers. Burberry, McQueen and Ralph Lauren have the cashmere products time to time, Marc Jacobs is a lit bit pricy, Ann Taylor is reasonable and wearable, and J Crew's is nice around $300-500 (made by Piana).
BUT some certain brands are always the prime leaders in this field.
Loro Piana, Filatura di Crosa, Cariaggi and Noro Cash, all got good reputations, Lucien Pellat-Finet ? sure, if you can also afford a townhouse in sixth, that brand is the cashmere answers to french hermes, one of the highest priced cashmere products around..
On how to "keep" it, call your girlfriend for a lovely home stay dinner, and hand it over to her,
she needs to fold it gently into a square box (if the origin mysteriously lost already then ask her about last xmas the big big blue box of the tiffany's) before professional dry-clean's done, you are not suppose to throw a $1000 bill in the couch.
And last things last, the little detail that goes with your perfect warming body, when stocking your cashmere in the closet,choose the perfume that has wood in it and largely spray, denseness, tenderness and manly, that smell will slightly turn into a crystal lighten throw the whole year stocking, when winter calls for reopen, you'd load yourself a clean-cut,irresistible taste. So give your girl a holiday Hug now, cos she'd love to be embraced by you and your comfort cashmere.
