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………………..For the beginning of 2013 I was given a TSV……Hip Hip Hurray!!!….However, a Jan. TSV isn’t ideal because women have just come off spending a lot of money for the Christmas Holidays, and were still waiting for their credit card charges to come in to access the damage!…so spending more wasn’t on their agenda…….but as the saying goes…..”don’t look a gift horse in the mouth”….what ever that means?….A Jan. TSV I was given and a Jan. TSV I would take!!…..The TSV was a PONTE PEPLUM jacket in five colors. To coordinate with the jacket I offered…a slim Ponte pant with back seams for a perfect shape, a Ponte zip front pencil skirt with a button waist band, and a Whisper Knit scoop neck, elbow sleeve sweater with waist whittling ribs for the perfect layering piece…………..There was also an additional Jan. group! Now, there are two ways to look at a Jan. group….It’s either much too early to buy more….or….you are showing these clothes early which gives them a longer selling period……I chose to see the positive, and hopefully so did the Ladies.

………………….Above are photos of the January 2013 TSV PEPLUM JACKET. The jacket had many wonderful details starting with the beautiful rounded collar and lapel. The jacket had body seams and body darts in the front with horizontal band pockets. The back had three body seams for a beautiful shape that ended at the horizontal seam where the shirred peplum was set in. The sleeve had a seamed cuff with three  working buttons. The petite ladies appreciated this detail as they were able to unbutton the cuff and turn it back for a shorter sleeve length. There were some women who had never worn a peplum like this before and were concerned it would make them look big…….Au Contraire…….The peplum is perfect for women who have a large booty because it camouflages it, and for women who are flat it gives them a shape…….It’s all in the DETAILS, and for these jackets I had a special metal button made. It became my signature logo button. It had piercings of four little L’s for Linea., but it wasn’t an OBVIOUS logo which I didn’t want…..The jacket came in IVORY, NAVY, IRIS, CORAL, SEA GREEN and BLACK……..To coordinate with the jacket there was a matching Ponte skirt and slim pant. There was also a Whisper Knit sweater to wear as a layering piece……..Along with these pieces special jewelry was developed to go with the clothes.

……………………………The SEA GREEN and BLACK TSV PEPLUM jackets both had silver signature buttons. You can see in the middle photo to the left, the cuff turned back. I like the matching suit look, but I really like the colors mixed…………Ivory, Sea Green and Black to the lower left and Black, Ivory and Iris to the right were just two possible combinations.

………………………CORAL and NAVY is a special and exciting combination, and yet very classic…….This color Coral always reminded me of the beautiful real Coral beads that I would see in the window of one of the jewelry shoppes on the Pont de Vecchio in Florence Italy. If you have been to Florence I’m sure you know the shoppe I mean. It is near the beginning of the bridge on the left as you are walking over the bridge away from the city….The windows were always filled with all shades of the most beautiful coral jewelry……You can see very clearly the peplum in the back at the upper right. The fullness of the peplum was concentrated at the center and became less as it got closer to the side seam. From the front the peplum wasn’t seen……………This became a very successful jacket in spite of the “peplum” concerns!

………………………The Whisper Knit scoop neck sweater was the UP-SELL to the TSV Peplum jacket and coordinating pieces. It had a waist whittling ribbed hip which women began to see was very flattering. It also had very flattering elbow sleeves. It came in the Iris, Navy, Sea Green, Coral and Black………By now Whisper Knits were a staple and essential in every Linea Ladies wardrobe.