✶✵ This post contains items gifted to me. ✵✶
Recently, Kawamomo let me pick out some cute stuff from their online store, and yes, I have been thinking about pleated tennis skirts in various colours and styles continuously for a thousand years, so I got two.
Kawamomo has a generally cutesy style (momo means "peach" in Japanese, and kawamomo could mean "the skin of a peach" I believe, but I'm no expert - I mean, kawa also means "river" so it could potentially become "river peach" - regardless, the name reflects the gentle and sweet style offered). I liked a lot of stuff they had available, but first of all, I picked up a very important black pleated skirt with a little embroidered rose to one side.
I do in fact love this skirt, and fortunately both skirts I got fit me absolutely perfectly. Please note that I'm wearing a pyjama top in this image. Its huge, open sleeves are there to waft cool air all around my shoulders in these troubling summer times (and I think a grey check shirt and black skirt combo is pretty nice).
I really couldn't resist the rose... it's cute. I would like to own a wardrobe full of the same skirt but each with different embroidered flowers. A baby pink peony. Lily of the valley. Bluebells. Imagine the possibilities!
Moving on to my next pleated skirt - this one in a nice dusty pink colour - I also love this one. It's of a slightly thicker and softer material. Really I just love the colour. I really like muted, earthy pinks and don't own anything else this colour, so there's something very pleasing about it. The black double line detail is very cute, and it pairs perfectly with this owl jumper, also from Kawamomo.
The owl jumper is a unique and charming specimen. It has owls on the elbows (the natural and correct place for owls to be), two tiny pockets in the front, and light, multicoloured flecks throughout the material (you can't see them here, but they're cute!). It's a really thick jumper, too, so I guess I won't be wearing this for a while.
The final shocking items I received were two backpacks. One hefty pink boy which I think will be great for travelling (since I decided to shun suitcases), and one slightly smaller bag, which happens to be a cat.
The cat bag is honestly the greatest thing I've ever seen and I am thrilled and delighted by it. I think I might be becoming a backpack person. I was a backpack person as a teen, and then I switched to shoulder bags, but now... now the lines are blurred.
Life is truly a whirlwind... but I love my cat bag.
