This post is sponsored by Amazon Fashion. As always, thank you so, so much for supporting the partnerships that keep Kelly in the City up and running!
Red Wrap Coat (Also try this affordable Cocoon!) / Kelly’s Gingham Flannel Shirt / Quilted Vest (Here’s the Women’s Version.) / Mitch’s Checked Flannel Shirt (We also got him this one and I love it!) Note: Today only, select J.Crew Mercantile products are 50 percent off!
Mitch here!
Remember Christmas shopping before the internet? My standard holiday shopping experience involved a single frantic trip to the mall on Christmas Eve. It resulted in terrible gifts, and I gave lots of jigsaw puzzles. (Sorry, Family.) But times have changed. I’m a freakin’ dad now and, despite the big guy up north doing his thing, pulling Christmas off this year kind of falls on my shoulders.
As you know, we’re one of those families plagued by about 1,000 miles between our various Christmas celebrations. Which means that until recently, I fancied Southwest’s overhead bins as the Larkin Family sleigh of sorts, cramming as many presents as I could into a couple of lowly suitcases. But not this year. This year, I’m straight-up shipping my gifts to their final destinations, gift-wrapped and all. It’s 2018 and I’m outsourcing that stuff. Amazon up in this!
Gifts for women
As you read this post, we exist in a beautiful time when all gifts will arrive in time if you order ’em now. (If you were so inclined, you could literally complete your Christmas shopping in the next hour if you’d just get off this blog. 😉) Soon, though, this beautiful time will pass, and there will be mass chaos and scrambling. Unless you use Amazon.
Amazon, which is now offering J.Crew Mercantile (!), guarantees Christmas Eve delivery if you just order your Prime-enabled gifts before 12/22. That’s ridiculous. Yes, there’s still a chance that I’ll be that dude in line at a store on Christmas Eve with a jigsaw puzzle gift in hand. But it’s far less likely because of Amazon. (It might be worth mentioning that Kelly gathers all her favorite Amazon items in her Amazon shop at amazon.com/shop/kellyinthecity. It’s updated all the time and linked on the sidebar of the blog. Just look for Noodle with a pile of Amazon boxes.)
I actually have the bulk of my shopping done, and I’m telling you: I went crazy on the J.Crew Mercantile selection on Amazon. (Right now, btw, select Mercantile men’s and women’s styles are 50 percent off–today only!) The images you see in this post are soup-to-nuts J.Crew Mercantile. Kelly’s wearing her favorite red wrap coat which I can only assume is an homage to Santa Clause. (Apparently it’s great for the baby bump, too.) And don’t worry: underneath is an adorable gingham flannel shirt to bring the outfit down to earth.
I’m wearing my absolute favorite checked flannel shirt, too. I wear it constantly. Looks like a nice dress shirt but it’s warm and cozy. It’s the shirt of the season. I’m also rocking this quilted vest which I picked out all on my own. It stands up to both Kelly’s standards and the Chicago winter, so I’m really proud of it. ;)
Gifts for men
Amazon Echo Giveaway
In the spirit of wrapped presents and Kelly’s wrap coat, let’s wrap this post up and give away an Amazon Echo Look–part of Kelly’s “12 Days of Giveaways.” Echo Look was designed to up your fashion game via a combination of daily outfit photos and artificial intelligence. You put it in your room and take a picture of your outfit options, and it helps you decide what to wear. Echo Look has all the standard Echo/Alexa technology as well. To enter to win, simply leave your contact details below (or on today’s Instagram post for an additional entry) and don’t forget to confuse the robots with formatting like this kelly [at] gmail [dot] com. As always, you can say whatever you want in the comment section as long as it’s relatively PG and friendly, but I personally enjoy really random stuff. ;) A random winner will be selected and announced on Monday.
Good luck and happy shopping!
Mitch. OUT!
Shop the post:
Red Wrap Coat (Also try this affordable Cocoon!) / Kelly’s Gingham Flannel Shirt / Quilted Vest (Here’s the Women’s Version.) / Mitch’s Checked Flannel Shirt (We also got him this one and I love it!) Note: Today only, select J.Crew Mercantile products are 50 percent off!
