Cruise Collection...

Hi!!! How was everyone's weekends? I had an amazing time in Vancouver complete with a little shopping, some in-your-face hockey mania (you have no idea!), and a delightful trip to Solly's Bagels, as per our tradition... What did you guys get up to?

OK, now that we're all caught up, can we please take a moment here to talk about these shorts? I bought them impulsively at Winners last week (only $16.99!), yet so far it has been quite the love affair. The print seems very cruise ship lady (CSL) to me, which is what initially drew me to them, and I'm totally smitten with the fit, which basically means they're not too short/scandalous. A win-win, if you will...

I tried to tone them down here with the black tights and jacket (not to mention it was chilly that day!), but the bright vintage top and orange quilted bag are somewhat akin to their CSL roots... What do you guys think? Are they cute or over the top? Give it to me straight, friends; I can take it... ;)

Outfit details: top- vintage; shorts- Winners; jacket- Sirens; heels & necklace- Forever 21; bag- Winners; bracelets- H&M, vintage & the Bay; rings- YSL & the Bay

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Cruise collection

A cruise collection or resort collection, sometimes also referred to as holiday or travel collection (collection croisière, in French), is an inter-season or pre-season line of ready-to-wear clothing produced by a fashion house or fashion brand in addition to the recurrent twice-yearly seasonal collections - spring/summer and autumn (or fall)/winter - heralded at the fashion shows in New York, London, Paris and Milan.

Originally meant for wealthy customers or "more seasoned jet-setters"[1] going on cruises (e.g. North Americans) or vacationing in the warm Mediterranean area (e.g. Europeans) during the winter months, cruise collections offer light spring or summer clothing when the weather at the points of sale actually calls for winter apparel.[2] These days, they are targeted at customers who have "finished buying their fall wardrobes and are looking ahead to vacations".[3] These "warm-weather designs [...] arrive in the shops in the US in November"[4], after the autumn/winter collections and before the spring/summer collections, or generally between November/December and February in the Northern hemisphere.

High fashion houses like Chanel, Dior, Gucci, Marc Jacobs, and Ralph Lauren offer cruise/resort collections. Although usually intended for women, lately "menswear is coming aboard with Dolce & Gabbana, Giorgio Armani, Prada, Zegna, Etro, Gucci and Burberry often sneaking a few resort looks into the fall fashion shows" or producing signature cruise collections.[2] Yves Saint-Laurent presented its first men's cruise collection in 2006 which has since then been offered every year.[5]

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