Product Review: Cascading Flowers Astrid Jacket

Cascading Flowers Bouclé Astrid Jacket
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Item 99457
Regular: $425.00

This jacket looks absolutely beautiful- just divine! Luckily for us, two members of the blog shared with us their review of the Cascading Flowers Bouclé Astrid Jacket. :)

Anon at 2:46 PM (in this post) shared the following review:

I got my Cascading flower jacket today. It came nicely wrapped in a box with a bow on it. They included a garment bag in which to hang it. That being said I'm not sure I'm going to keep it. When I saw the picture in the lookbook on the collection part of the website, I thought for sure I would love it. I then saw the picture through the regular site, on a different model, and I second guessed even ordering it in the first place. It didn't look as good on the different model, and I don't know how I feel about it on me. I had my hair up at the time, and really I want to see how it looks with my hair down and fixed.

The flowers running down the sides are gorgeous and "cascade" just like I think they should, but the flowers around the neck I'm not crazy about. I can't put my finger on why, except maybe they are too flattened? And I wouldn't know where to begin on fluffing them up. They are a very heavy material, and each individual flower is made up of a lot of petals. I understand during a shipping process something that delicate can be squished, but they just don't lay right to me. And I'm not sure they're squished, just that they're so heavy they don't perk up like the ones on the jacket from the lookbook.

Considering the jacket is so expensive, I feel like I really should LOVE it to keep it. The material is nice, and the silk the flowers are made out of is really soft and incredible. You really just want to touch the flowers when you're wearing the jacket.

Lastly, on fit. I am between sizes in Jcrew- I vary from a size 4 to a size 6. I ordered the 6 in this because I had heard it was running small, the 6 fits fine to me but I also feel like the 4 would have fit nicely as well. It's not as boxy as the berry trim astrid, and I think that because of the fabric it molds to your body better. The jacket is definately cropped, and the sleeves are definately bracelet length.

Cleo26 (in the same post) shared the following review:

I recently received the cascading flower Astrid in ivory. It is a very nice, mid-weight jacket with beautiful almost ruffled flowers. The boucle seems thicker than that of the fuschia boucle Astrid with one flower sold in many stores. I find the ivory slightly less bright than what's shown on the model online, and the roses have less of a yellow ting. With all the flowers, I do think I would have liked the jacket better with only two pockets. Seems to have too much going on with four.

For most ladies familiar with J. Crew jacket sizing, they would find this Astrid true to size. For me, i think i'm in between sizes. I feel a slight tightness at the shoulder blades, but a larger size would be too loose in the bodice, especially if i go by how it's modeled on the website. Since i am much shorter than the model, the jacket hits me at the hip, right below the natural waist, and the sleeves fall 3/4 to bracelet length.

"Thanks!" to both Anon at 2:46 PM and Cleo26 for sharing their great reviews with us! :)

What are your thoughts of the Cascading Flowers Bouclé Astrid Jacket (do you like/dislike the style, design, flowers)? Are you considering or already have purchased this jacket? If so, please share with us your thoughts! :)