Golden Tote November

Now let's talk about Golden Tote, which has pretty quickly become my obsession. Golden Tote offers unique shopping experience and an element of surprise. It's not really a subscription service because you do need to go in every month and place your order. There are two main types of totes: $49 tote in which you get one chose item and one to two surprise items and $149 tote, in which you choose two items and the GT stylist picks 4 surprise items based on your style preferences in your style profile. The sales start on first business day of the month and it can be a real frenzy because thousands of GT customers aka Goldies flock the website to pick the chosen items for their totes. You can also get a $99 all surprise tote, in which you get 4 surprise items only and no chosen items.

November was the third month with Golden Tote for me. I ordered one large tote and was very happy with it. I liked most of the clothes they picked for me. In fact, after seeing all the great clothes other Goldies were receiving I ordered another large tote, but it has not arrived yet.

Here are is November Tote 1. My first chosen item:

Priddy by Puella Plaid Dress - This is not the best picture and does not show the shape of the dress very well. The dress is fitted on top and flares out at the hip. I think it's pretty flattering cut.  I wish you could show in pictures how soft this dress is. When I put it on it felt so comfortable. I like the length of the dress too. I always look for dresses I can wear to work and I find many Golden Tote dresses to be on the shorter side. This one was perfect and I cannot wait to wear it. I will probably style it with tights and booties.

Second chosen item:

Just Black Coated Skinny jeans - These jeans are amazing! I ordered my regular jean size and they fit well. It's always a gamble ordering jeans online, but I got lucky with these. The coating is only in front which makes the look somewhat unique and cool. They are insanely comfortable too similarly to the boyfriend jeans I got by the same brand from the Facebook Golden Tote trading group. Even though I can't wear jeans to work, I'm sure I will wear these a lot on my days off. 

Now on to the surprised items: 

Les Lis paisley top - This top is really soft. I don't mind the pattern at all, but I felt that the line where the pattern changes felt on an awkward place on my chest. I wish it was a little lower. I am still undecided if I want to keep it. I like how comfortable it is, so if I don't find anyone who is desperately looking for it, I will end up keeping it. 

Lumiere navy blue top with polka dots-  I actually saw some spoiler pictures on Facebook for November surprise items and I saw a polka dot pattern in there. I'm crazy about polka dots, so I requested the top in my comments when I was ordering. My stylist took my comments into the account and sent me this beautiful blouse. I really love it!

Priddy retro print dress - This dress came in two patterns this month and I actually liked them both. I was hoping to get one in my tote. The pictures do not really show the pattern very well. The dress is amazingly soft and comfortable. It also has great length for work. I'm going to wear it this winter with some boots and sweaters.

Mak B black Shrug - I could not figure out how to wear it and I felt like I could not pull off a shrug like this. Also, I have another shrug from previous months I have yet to wear, so I traded this one in the Facebook Golden Tote trading group. 

Overall I'm really happy with my November tote. After three months of Golden Tote'ing I completely revamped my closet and got rid of a lot of old clothes to make room for more because I know that I will have really hard time not ordering another tote again. Once I have a chance to wear the clothes I received, I will post pictures of how they all looked. 

Nadine West November 2014

This is my second Nadine West delivery. I as really excited to get the pink pouch fool of goodies.
Nadine West has quite unique model - there is no upfront cost for you to get the box. Each month you get one top and two pieces of jewelry. You can try it on and see what you'd like to keep. You keep what you like and send the rest back in the same envelope with the return label created.

Here are the items I received this month.

Wine-colored striped top

 Cost to keep $18.49

Returning

I had a lot of back and forth with this top. At first I thought that it was no way going to fit me as it looked small. I tried it on and it looked nice and I wanted to keep it, but then I looked at pictures of myself wearing and saw that it looks really strange on my chest (the lines were kind of positioned awkwardly on me), so I decided to return this one.

J.Crew Green on Gold Necklace 
Cost to keep $21.99
Keeping
I absolutely love J.Crew and its jewelry. I was really happy to see this in my box. Definitely keeper.
Here is a close-up of the necklace.

Ribbons and Bows studs
Cost to keep $4.99
Keeping
These are really pretty but too small to take a good picture. They are cute golden ribbons and can be worn on everyday basis.

I was really happy with this months box. Originally I wanted to keep everything but I ended up keeping 2 out of 3 items, which is still great. 

Wantable Intimates November 2014

My second delivery of Wantable Intimates box was even better than the first one. Wantable recently revamped their Intimates box and now offer fewer but better quality items, which to me sounds like a great idea. I know some people have an issue with getting fewer items but I'd rather get better quality ones than a ton of average items. Wantable offers 4 different types of boxes - Accessories, Intimates, Makeup and recently introduced Fitness. Here are the goodies I received in my second Wantable Intimates box :

Dreamwave Pajama Drama - Romper ($28.00 according to Wantable, but I found one for $17.50 here). Well this is something way out of my comfort zone and fits a little snug on me. I gave it to my 11-year-old daughter and she likes it. It's much more age-appropriate for her. 

Modal Black Cami ($18.00) - I absolutely loooooove this cami. It's probably my favorite item from the box. I have a lot of simple black camis but this one has a wrap-like front. I will wear this a lot with cardigans on top. 

This is what it looks on. 

Last item was Nouveau polka dot pajama set ($39.99 price tag but I found them for $22.00 at Amazon ). This set is really cute and comfortable. Unfortunately mine had a flaw and was not sewn correctly in the crotch area, nothing a needle and thread cannot fix. However I contacted the Wantable customer service and they sent me a replacement item, but I was still able to keep the pajamas. I was really impressed with the customer service speed and quality. Very happy customer. 

This was my replacement - Embroidered Bow Front Hipster. 

I was pretty happy with my November box. What I really like about Wantable is that not everyone gets exactly the same item and you can really customize it to fit our needs.