Acknowledging wholeheartedly that there are many worse problems, I urgently need to find a dark brown crew neck sweater. Please help!

[nevergoogle]

Size 16
Dark Brown
Crew neck or similar to wear over shirt with lovely collar

Rest of outfit is hobbs (i say!).

Please please help me even though it appears as though I don't deserve it. I really do.

How about woolovers?

femme costa at john lewis

i haven't heard of either femme costa or woolovers. any good?

is woolovers a normal shop? all the duty-free bit sounds odd.

Yes it's a normal, mostly internet/catalogue shop. I think the duty free bit is for people outside the UK (EU maybe) who don't have to pay VAT.

Woolovers is often mentioned on here and I have bought from them myself. They have good customer service. I haven't heard of Femme Costa but I would give that jumper a swerve anyway as it is 50% acrylic.

Can't help but love the title :o

John Smedley. Pricey but excellent quality and multiple colours and necklines in plain knits. Woolovers quality is crapola; I'm so disappointed with my purchases from them.

SPB; why thankyou. Thanks all. Crisis over, have found one on the hobbs website and also ordered the acrylic one as a backup. Will return one.

Now, necklace issues. (blatantly ignoring the hives and anaphylactic reaction experienced this week and focussing on job interview attire) Everything is fine, nothing to see here! No death defying nonsense from nevergoogle here. nope, not at all. well, not more than twice in 6 months.

Ooh job interview, what's the job?
And how is the smallest dragon doing?

two interviews, don't want to say too much right now, but will get back to you afterwards.

littlest dragon is amazing. just lovely. and a surprising red head! 5 months old already and giggly and happy and huuungry (I've lost 3.5 stone since pregnancy weight, he's a good lad)

Wow 5 months :)
Good luck. Sounds mysterious, I've heard secret agents wear dark brown crew neck sweaters. Let us know how you get on

the ladies love milk tray... hang on that was a polo neck.

oh my word, the hobbs one arrived and it has shiny buttons on both shoulders. i look like i'm in the military. returning it and going back to my v-neck.
i love that internet shopping allows me to get stuff without dragging 3 kids around the shops but jeez, it's a bit of a faff when stuff isn't right.

didn't get it. cancelled other interview as heart not in it.

fuck everything.

i expect it had nothing to do with the sweater.

:( sorry ng. Job hunting is a bitch. Don't let it put you off any further - do you have anything else coming up

thanks spb, i woke this morning with lots of business/social enterprise ideas. got another 5 months or so to get a plan together before my mat leave ends and i have to go back to my 'very good, but not quite doing it for me' job.

feedback was that i gave an excellent presentation and interviewed really well, they liked me. just other candidate did better in interview.

cock.

I broke every rule in my own book and bought a jumper from a charity shop with the following characteristics:

1. It was from Next.

1. It was made of cotton but possibly with polyester blended in. I'll never know, as I cut the label out with my nose in the air.

1. It has a crew neck.

1. It has 'leather' elbow patches a la Mr Parkinson the geography teacher, and if any cows were harmed in it's manufacture I will eat my Hush Puppies.

That jumper has served me so, so well. I wear it with a white shirt with rounded collars, with little flowers on. It's not my style at all but it just works.

I freakin love my polycotton crew neck from Next :)

sounds fab! geek chic and all that.

my shirt had rounded collars too. so sweet. (in a hardnosed professional way)