Everlane Silk Wide Leg Pant Review

I haven't done an Everlane review in awhile since I told myself I won't add anything new to my closet in March.  But I ordered this in the tail end of February and yep, it took me that long to get around to reviewing it (I'm still so backlogged on Grana items, it's ridiculous).  But here's a quick review of these Silk Wide Leg pants.

I initially liked these pants because of the cool striped design but also because it's quite opaque (no VPL here).  But long story short, I did return them because these silk pants wrinkle like nothing I've seen before.  I steamed out the wrinkles when I first received it.  Then days later when I went to try them on for the pics below I bent down to put on these shoes and when I stood up again they were all wrinkled!  So I did something I would not advise: I steamed out the wrinkles while I was still wearing them (but very carefully).  These pants are just way to high-maintenance for my taste. 

Also, if I were to keep these pants I would probably hem them since they're a bit long for my 5'4" frame.  

I don't know if it's just me but I'm finding that there's less and less things I'm excited about when it comes to Everlane, except maybe for their shoes.  Since we are in April, I'm letting myself try out Everlane's new modern loafer slides so review of that coming soon-ish!  Anyways you can find all of Everlane's items here and all my Everlane reviews here.

Everlane The Silk Shell Review

Sorry not the right color here, but I didn't have a chance to grab the images of their pink shell.

So interesting story about this Everlane Silk Shell.  I had no intention of purchasing this (much less in this color) except when I was scrolling through Everlane's page while in the security line at the airport I saw that there was a slight glitch on their mobile site.  They were selling this pink silk shell for $1!!! The next smallest size they had available was a size 8.  Now I'm usually a size 4 in Everlane so it made no sense for my to buy a size 8.  But I couldn't pass it up.  Plus I wasn't sure I would even be able to check-out due to the error.  But I was able to check out and I got my order confirmation.  At this point I was sure that Everlane would realize their error, apologize and refund everyone their $1 (and I was curious to see how they would handle the whole debacle).  But amazingly the price just changed back to what it should be ($65) and I received my item a week later.  It's pretty admirable for Everlane to follow through even though it was their mistake. 

And since I had it in hand I decided to try it out.  And guys, it fit.  It was a bit loose but it fit fine at the neck and arm holes (I for sure thought the arm holes would be way too big).  Which led me to think, "Wait, am I really a size 8 and have I been fooling myself to think I'm a size 4 all this time?!"  But then I realized, that the size 4 items fit me perfectly fine as well.  So does that mean Everlane's sizing variation is actually quite minimal?

{Wearing: Everlane Silk Shell, Everlane Stretch Ponte Pants, Everlane Modern Point shoes and YSL Universite bag}

I'm still not sure if I'll be keeping this silk shell but I'll at least try to incorporate it into some outfits before I decide.  I've never owned anything this pink before so it'll be fun to experiment and incorporate it into my decidedly neutral closet.

Anyways you can find all the rest of my Everlane reviews here.

P.S. Actually I decided to sell this over at TemporaryHousewifeyCloset for a really good price.  So Everlane's loss will be EarthJustice's gain, lol (and one lucky reader will get a new silk shell for a steal)