Welp… The US kind of got the shaft on a bunch of stuff this week–Canada seemed to get the lion’s share of the new stuff we’ve been seeing. For example, the US did not get the sweater life but Canada did. Lots of new colors are cropping up everywhere, though! Like, even more than what we’ve already seen today.
Right as rain jacket: both US and Canada got it, in black and bordeaux.
New scubas: the top is “flat inky floral heathered inkwell”, and the second one is mojave tan and inkwell, the stripes are called maple stripe/vine stripe. Kinda looks like classic stripe if you ask me.
New stride color (and by color I mean yet another neutral): heathered black. (US only)
Canada got he ebb to street tank in this color, bumble berry, black, and parfait pink. Turns out, this isn’t forest green. It’s called fuel green.
The 5 year yogini long sleeve is in both US and Canada. This mystery stripe is called pine stripe, and it’s inkwell and mojave tan.
Canada got a short sleeve version of the 5 year yogini. This is another new color: mauvelous. There are 4 other colors of this tee, too.
Another new purple: purple fog. (Canada only)
Exhalation pullover II showed up in a color we haven’t seen yet: marled mojave magenta. (Plus two other variations of black/grey)
Groove wunder under pants are back. This is a misc patterned rugged blue. Only the US got this one. Canada got diamond dot groove WUP.
A black version of inky floral on the energy bra. The patterned rugged blue also appeared.
Blossom stripe 50 rep bra. The rugged blue pattern (seen overseas) turned up, too. US only.
Honorable mentions (not comprehensive but close): bumble berry WUC ii (Canada only), quilted rugged blue vinyasa, happy yin year sweatpants, bordeaux and rugged blue in the flow crops (US only), bumble berry free to be bra, inky floral free to be bra (Canada only), the sweater life (Canada only but no bordeaux yet!!), west2east stripe CRB, h’om run jacket, black savasana wrap (Canada only–US got it last week), diamond dot bordeaux WUP (Canada only), heathered slate WUP (US only), two times a yogi bag, and bumble berry boogie shorts.
Purple Fog looks a lot like Winter Orchid…curious to see a comparison. Also love mauvelous. So Plum is coming back too? The DSJ is up in that color. I’m glad US got the shaft. I’m trying for a no-buy August (or one-buy-item August if it seems like the rain jacket is going quickly…that’s a must for me.)
Yes, definitely! I thought it might’ve been winter orchid til I saw the name. WO, as I recall, is a bit lighter and has less grey tones, though. I think.
No-buy months are a great goal! I did one a while back and I ended up only utilizing like 75% of my budget, it was pretty awesome. :) August is a hard month to do that, though, with all the fall stuff rolling out. If nothing else, it forces you to pause before buying, which is a VERY useful exercise!!
Did you get anything? I only got the Astro WUCs. I really wanted the Blue Calm CRB.
Nice, the astro WUC waistband is *really* cute this time around! Good choice. It was another week of nothing for me. I’m having to be *extremely* lean with my finances right now (long-ass story), but it was an easy pass anyway. In coming weeks, I’ll be tempted by the bordeaux luxtreme WUC, inky floral CRB or speeds (assuming they’re made), and most any vinyasa. I also like the idea of the bordeaux sweater life, but being petite, it might look awkward on me anyway. Somehow I need to find more stuff to sell, ugh.
I’ve been slowing down on my purchases quite a bit as well as returning things that I’m not sure of. We’re planning on buying a house later this year. But LLL has made it easy the last couple of months for me. I’ve only bought one item here and there as of late.
Mauvelous is so pretty! Missed out on brisk bloom in inkwell/black previously, so I’m def getting something in the flat flower print now. The rugged blue print looks very japanese-influenced to me and ok, I’m going to get that too. There’s a striped blue tank top that looks very enticing too.
Thanks for this post! : )
Yes, the prints seem to be following a Japanese trend for sure! For example, “oki fossil”: Oki is the name of an archipelago of islands in Japan. Sashiko is a kind of Japanese embroidery (or “sashico”, as lulu spelled it), and idk what “kanoko” is (as in lulu’s kanoko twist), but the word is also clearly Japanese. Pines and maples are common Japanese plants (lulu’s pine and maple stripe) and the patterning of the maple stripe in particular looks like a Japanese textile, as Marshmallow pointed out. Even the inky floral print could be construed as reminiscent of a certain Japanese look.
Anyway I think I beat that horse to death, you get my drift. In a word: yes, lots of Japanese stuff happening. :)
I know, what is up with “sashico”? Oh well.
Thanks! Oh yes, definitely Japanese then, which I love love love (because I love sashimi too LOL). I’ve stopped buying LLM stuff for a while (other than a Great Granite pair of shorts and the WAFS magenta CRB), and this new collection marks a great comeback. Can’t wait for more uploads.
Agree with Jane_Doe, the rugged blue print is mimicking traditional Japanese indigo textiles as is the inkwell (?) and beige colored stripe section it’s paired with on the Astro WUC and Energy bra. I really like it but I’m not sure what piece to buy it in.
Totally! As I mentioned in the comment reply to Jane_Doe’s post, there’s definitely a clear Japanese influenced theme going on. Kanoko, oki, sashico, maple, pine… It’s definitely the unifying theme. I’m just glad to see they’re getting away from saccharine teeny-bopper motifs!…
I got Bordeaux drama flow crops and thinking about DSJ in plum since I missed out last year. But do I need it? All the berry and plum tones are calling out to me.
Well I love plum, so I can’t really talk you out of it. :) I love berries and plums too!!
So I’m guessing the US isn’t getting the rest of the mesh stuff online?
Ya know, I noticed that and thought it was kind of weird… I mean, stuff has shown up late before, but it’s odd…
Have you tried the exhalation pullover? Insightful Athlete looks great in it and it seems like a versatile piece for fall. I’m interested in how it fits a petite frame.
Thanks.
No I haven’t. I’m too far from a store to do try-ons more than once in a blue moon (sucks!). :