:: Don't Tell Me A Navy Peacoat Is Practical. I Don't Need To Hear It. ::

I am practical almost to a fault. I'll find the world's cutest shoes, in some cute color like deep red or something, and I'll imagine my alter ago in them and just die from how adorable my alter ago is wearing those deep red adorable shoes. But then inevitably I'll consider the walk to school (I live fifteen miles from school and can only park about a mile from my building so I must walk a mile to and from class). And then I'll consider the fact that I can't wear socks with the cute deep red shoes that look so adorable on my alter ago (it's cold here in winter, folks). And then I'll finally get to the "But what on earth would I wear red shoes with, anyway?" question and it's all over. Even my alter ago takes the shoes off at that point.

It's like a really boring disease.

And yet: three winters ago I went completely insane and bought a gorgeous white wool coat (drastically on sale, I mean come on) and wore it every single day. I wore it in snow, rain, sleet, and sun. I wore it to school, the grocery store, Christmas shopping. I practically wore it in my sleep. I got compliments on my adorable white winter coat everywhere I went.

And now it looks like someone peed on my sleeve. I don't know how this happened because I'm fairly certain that no person nor animal actually did pee on my sleeve. My best guess is that I got splashed with dirt and that the dry cleaning process turned brown mud spots into yellow pee stains.

So I'm in the market, is what I'm saying, for a new coat.

I have established just three criteria in my search for a new winter coat:

1. With a baby around, I'm conceding one point to practicality: it can't be white.


2. For obvious reasons that I guess have something to do with practicality but are really just common freakin' sense, it must be warm.


3. To keep things fun, I'd really like it to go with the scarf I'm currently knitting. It is what I can only call guacamole-colored and, when completed, will look like this:

(The pattern for this scarf can be found here. Be warned, though: you can't really do this and watch TV or carry on a conversation unless you're some kind of super knitter. Which I am not.)

Alternately, I'd be down with a goat that goes with the raspberry-colored scarf I knitted to go with the white pee-sleeve coat. It's my first scarf and so soft and warm and I really really love it.

Right now, my top contender is this coat:



Do you think it would look good with my sweet blue knitted earflap hat? Gotta keep those ears warm!