I think that my brother-in-law Danny the Antagonizer would hate this post and give me trouble for it, because this entire post is going to be Anthropologie-related, and he hates the place. We agree on a lot of things (well, mostly our annoyance at having to go to weddings), but not when it comes to this. (or David Bowie, who I love and D.S. makes fun of). But come to think of it I don't think Danny reads this anyway, so I should be OK.

My favorite article in the big September Lucky was the one about taking old pieces and making them new by combining them into the sort of outfits they've never been made into before. And for one of the models they used an Anthropologie fashion merchandiser named Elizabeth Hooks, who happens to own what might be the best coat I've ever seen. Really! At first I was hoping it was an Anthropologie item, because if it were I would have been definitely tempted to buy it, even if the price went high.

Unfortunately it's vintage. Which figures. But then again it got me thinking about a '60s yellow Aquascutum coat I have in my closet that I love but that I don't wear enough. The color isn't quite so wonderful as Elizabeth's coat--it's a brighter yellow and less of a mustard color. I loved it a year and a half ago when I was wearing much brighter clothes all the time, but my new love of muted colors and sort of subdued clothing means that the coat doesn't get pulled out all that often.

That photo above of me looking sad (you would too if mosquitoes were eating away at your legs!) was taken a year ago, when I was still pairing the coat with other brightly colored pieces. But now I'm thinking about wearing it with neutrals and soft prints. Maybe even a few frills to offset some of the coat's 1960s mod-ness a little.

Remember that sweater I wrote about yesterday? This is the type that I want to knit up--it's an old, old pattern from Craftster that was inspired by a sweater at Anthropologie. I want to make it a little bigger, out of gold/mustard yellow yarn, and then add one of these 1930s buttons I got from an antique store. I'm totally ripping off the color scheme from an Anthropologie sweater I saw the other day. Terrible! I wonder if Elizabeth would get mad?

I also wonder if she has a blog of her own.** Don't you think it would be wonderful to go behind the scenes at Anthropologie with a cutely dressed girl who owns the best coat ever?

**Oh dear. I just kind of creepily googled her name and didn't find any blogs written by her, but I did see that that clever Moodboard already wrote about her great style and beat me to it. Be sure to check it out--she has the rest of the Lucky scans too!