Chic Spring Finds at Talbots.

Jen Shoop

1 year ago

This post is sponsored by Talbots.

Talbots is one of those brands that has been in my fashion imagination for as long as I can remember. My mother loved shopping in their red-door boutiques when I was growing up, and I remember standing next to her at a picnic eating Grandma Utz kettle chips from a paper napkin when she asked one of her girlfriends, “Where do you get off looking like that with three young children?” Her friend was meticulously dressed and smelled like expensive soap. “Well, Elaine,” her friend said, “Talbots.” When I was 25, I was standing behind an elegant woman wearing a gingham dress at a Fourth of July parade, and I asked her where she’d purchased it. “Oh — Talbots, honey!” I ordered it immediately. And at my ten year high school reunion, a classmate arrived immaculately attired in a pair of linen pants and a statement blouse. “Talbots pants,” she said, knowingly.

I’ve worked that knowing insidership into my own shopping habit, and have often struck gold over the years, especially in their shoe department. (If you’ve followed me for awhile, you know I lived in their navy suede drivers and sherpa-lined loafers this past fall and winter. I wore the sherpa loafers so much that when I gave our nanny a sherpa-trim tote for Christmas, she commented, “Just like your shoes!”)

I love their latest spring collection, which is full of the feminine details (eyelet, scalloping, trim) to which I am always drawn, and was shocked and delighted when they asked whether I would be willing to style a few of their pieces.

I selected this delicate flutter-sleeved blouse, this joyful striped popover, and these perfect white pants, as I am firmly planted in my Nancy Meyers protagonist era, and these make me feel like I should be walking down a hydrangea-lined path onto a private beach. On sizing: I took a petite P in everything, and found they run just generous of true to size.