WoolWeenies Club

[GLC1968]

I ordered this Icebreaker wool skirt in black from SAC earlier this week and I just tried it on this morning. I LOVE it! I really wanted to wear it today, but I'd already showered and I didn't shave...so it'll have to wait for next week. Super cute and yet cozy, too. Mine is a little longer on me because my legs are short.



The one in this pic is a Pinot color that I might have to also get!

[Crankin]

I got a similar Ibex skirt for half price last summer. I wear it all of the time.
Thankfully, I realized that I need a small in Ibex bottoms and x smalls in the tops, so no returns necessary.
Trisk, those Alpstar pants sound very nice.... but I would have to spend a fortune to get them hemmed.

[Triskeliongirl]

Trisk, those Alpstar pants sound very nice.... but I would have to spend a fortune to get them hemmed.

Actually, you wouldn't. I ended up keeping the 6 over the 4, in part cuz the 4s are so damned short (they fit like petites)! I tried on a 4,6 and 8. In fact, I preferred the length on the 8 but they were way too big, the 6s are a little big in the waist, but the overall fit is the best and they do have room to layer.

But we seem inverted size wise, at least on the woolies bottom I needed an XS but I am a S in their tops. But you are tinier than me so I suspect the 4 alpstar pant would work for you, its the smallest size they make.

Its not always expensive to alter. When I lost my weight I brought my better clothes to a seamstress and she did wonders with them at very reasonable cost. I had a silk halter top dress I loved, and it had 4 darts, so she just took it in there and it looks great now. In fact, I have to stop by there after work to pick up an evening dress I found in my daughter's closet I want to wear on new years eve but had a broken zipper.

[GLC1968]

I got a similar Ibex skirt for half price last summer. I wear it all of the time.

I have that one too...but I've gained too much weight to wear it right now. This Icebreaker one is to hold me over until I can wear the Ibex one again (so I got a different color in the hopes of one day being able to fit into both of them - with alterations)!

[Cataboo]

I tried the icebreaker dress - it was just a little bit too clingy or I'm just a little bit too fat. I haven't tried the skirts because I thought they'd be similar.

I do have a couple of really nice long merino wool skirts that I bought off sierra trading post at some point, but they're more like sweater material and I should remember where I have those stashed.

[elk]

I have the short Ibex skirt and I wear it over my Ibex capris...I'm a wool layer cake I am...and I have to force myself to wear something else some days!

I just bought the blackberry circle of trees scarf on Ibex and a skimmer hat...I try to buy everything on sale...and you can read that either way..

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I have the short Ibex skirt and I wear it over my Ibex capris...I'm a wool layer cake I am...

Yep, I have that short black Ibex merino "Lena" skirt too- and I wear it layered over any kind of capris or tights.

[Crankin]

Well, I wear an xsmall in most things, but when i tried on an xsmall pair of Ibex pants last summer at the Arcadian shop, wow; I couldn't get them over my hips! Of course this was on the day that I had to get off my bike and walk up part of an 18% grade hill, for the first time in my life! Then, I realized the Ibex ski-pants/tights Steve bought me are smalls. They are too long, but since they are tights, I just pull them up.
Going to take a peek at the Alpstars.