Getting Valentine Ready!



Curvy Kate Princess Bra and Panty Set

Valentine's Day is only a week away! Valentine's Day is one of my favourite holidays (next to Thanksgiving). I know many single people dislike it because well, they are single. And those that are attached dislike it since it has become so commercial. I think it's such a wonderful holiday. A day to celebrate love that's full of hearts, sparkles and flowers and devoted to the colours pink, red and white. I think the world needs more days like this. There really isn't a more perfect Trepany holiday. Not to mention, it is one of the most well known lingerie holidays. The perfect excuse to wear some fabulous underwear, especially if you are always wearing your basic bra and panty set. Even if you aren't celebrating the day with another love bird, why not get all dolled up? Here, I've picked out three of my favourite sets, perfect for February 14th. Hopefully they help inspire you to get Valentine Ready! I'm going to have a difficult time deciding what to wear...my underwear collection has turned into an entire year full of Valentine's Days and I am completely in love with it!

Simone Perele Bra and Hanky Panky Cherry Hearts Thong

 

Fortnight Lingerie Mary-Jane Long Line Bra and High Waist Panty

Favourite Thing: Heather Cowl Sweater

Today the snow just makes us want to stay inside and snuggle up with a latte and our magazines! So our lounge wear item of choice, and our favourite thing this week, is this cowl neck sweater from our Heather collection. The perfect cozy sweater for a day like today where we discover that winter is finally here this year! Love the side zipper and cowl neckline. And it's longer in the back, perfect to wear with tights! Enjoy the snow this weekend everyone!

 

Proust at PERT!

I have been inspired by Vanity Fair (who regularly features this on the last page of their magazine) and the lovely Coco & Lowe ladies (who are featuring it as a series on their blog) to begin the new year by answering the Proust Questionnaire. I have heard of this before but never done it, and I thought it would be fun to be all reflective and pensive this Saturday morning. A good way to start off the new year! Marcel Proust was a french novelist and essayist, his most famous work "In Search of Lost Time," is considered one of the greatest works of fiction. Proust once answered a series of questions and based upon his enthusiastic responses they have become popular as a form of interview and recognized or known as the "Proust Questionnaire." So, with my glitter tea in hand (yes, glitter tea!) off I go! Thirty-five questions, thirty-five answers!

Sophisticated Seduction from David's Tea

This deep dark Chinese tea is like a gorgeous starry night, glimmering with gold and silver sugar crystals that shimmer as they steep. Take a sip and the slow suggestion of cinnamon will warm your body. Your toes will tingle and your mind will turn to fireworks, falling stars, late-night seduction. It’s basically magic.

The Proust Questionnaire

1. What’s your idea of perfect happiness?
I have a few answers for this. A Big Mac –McDonald’s dates are truly wonderful. Something as simple as a cup of tea and a romance novel. I think perfect happiness exists in wanting what you’ve got and having the freedom to make your own choices, decisions, and shaping your life into one you want to live.

2. What is your greatest fear?
That one day the world will be taken over by garbage. Seriously people, please recycle.

3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Indecisiveness

4.  What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Insensitivity

5. Which living person do you most admire?
My Mom and my Great Grandma Grace. This was her 100^th Christmas, she has a firm grasp on reality and an iPad.

6. What is your greatest extravagance?
Buying things that I don’t need. My latest obsession is Sabre Cutlery. Yes, teaspoons.

7. What is your current state of mind?
A combination of worried, curious and inquisitive.

8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Moderation.

9. On what occasion do you lie?
When I feel the truth needs to be stretched ever so slightly.

10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
My butt/hips. I think they’re disproportionately huge compared to the rest of me and I think my arms are too long.

11. Which living person do you most despise?
I’m not sure I could despise anyone. I think it’s more of a not understanding or not agreeing with why certain people do the things they do. Actions can lead to anger but anger also fades.

12. What are qualities you most like in a man?
ambitious, open-minded, good listener, trustworthy, chivalrous

13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Non-judgemental. Rare I think, a lot of women are calculating.

14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Love, Like, Fun, Yummy, Sweet
"Oh dear" "I’m being a grandma" "it’s basically a disaster"  "so cute"

15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Probably my work and my family, my siblings in particular are high on that list.

16. When and where were you happiest?
Most recently, the day Pert opened!

17. Which talent would you most like to have?
Probably dance. I miss classical ballet training.

18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
To be more realistic, I am very naive.

19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Actually opening Pert! Once it’s taken off and I know I’ve got something good going and can make a living running hopefully a few stores (big dreams!) that will be my greatest achievement. Until then, I’ve got work to do!

20. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what would it be?
The woman in Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Imagine the 21^st century version of her? Totally cool.

21. Where would you most like to live?
I actually think it would be neat to live out of a hotel...one of those boutique hotels in New York, just for a few months or a year.

22. What is your most treasured possession?
My polar bear stuffed animal whom I call “Beer”.

23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Having nowhere to call home or a family.

24. What is your favourite occupation?
Entrepreneur, I love the creativity behind it, and teacher because there are few good ones who actually care about their students and want to make a difference.

25. What is your most marked characteristic?
I’m not sure, I have been told I am very animated. Does that count?

26. What do you most value in your friends?
I actually have few close friends but I love that they understand me, respect me, want to be around me. Even if I don’t see them often it’s as if we never were away from one another!

27. Who are your favourite writers?
Charlotte Bronte, John Irving, Meg Rosoff, Thoureau and Shakespeare

28. Who is your hero of fiction?
Jane Eyre

29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Hmm...

30. Who are your heroes in real life?
My Dad and My Brother. They are both the sweetest people and I love them to death.

31. What are your favourite names?
Jaybie, Lilibet, Wallace, Trenton

32. What is it that you most dislike?
Waiting.

33. What is your greatest regret?
Losing friendships

34. How would you like to die?
 peacefully and glamorously

35. What is your motto?
Smile, Miss. (My Dad always says this to me. Honestly, I can’t fake it, whenever I think of this, all worries fade away and here I am with this stupid grin. So cheesy).

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

We hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful Christmas time! Filled with sweet presents, cheer, friends, family and yummy food! We can't wait for what is sure to be a beautiful 2012 at Pert. We have a lot to be thankful for this past year and we are ringing in 2012 with joy, faith and positivity in mind! Add a little sparkle, a lot of dancing and some fabulous friends and we are sure to have one wonderful celebration! 

See you at PERT soon! 

xox

trep

pictures via Pinterest.

Favourite Thing: Elizabeth Cotton Flannel Pajama

This week, Elizabeth Cotton's flannel pajamas are our favourite thing at PERT! I recently had a customer that said she felt like she wanted to stay here and hang out in her pj's for awhile! Isn't that so sweet? Pert is a pretty quaint little shop and we aim to make the atmosphere here as friendly and relaxing as possible! Lingerie shopping should be fun and since it's our favourite thing to do we want you to stay and shop with us as long as you like! These pj's are certainly one of the best to lounge around in! They are so soft and so warm, the ultimate luxury in Portuguese flannel. Elizabeth is dedicated to cultivating the world's finest fabrics which is why we love her pajamas. Her fabrics are all natural, produced in European mills especially for her, and then made in a small factory in the historic garment district of New York. 

These jammies are ones that only get better with age! It is no surprise then that they made it onto the "O List" as one of Oprah's favourite things! And now they've become one of our favourites here at the love shack! The flannels we have come in 3 prints, each one being the perfect pick-me-up during our chilly Canadian winter. These pj's are definitely one thing we want to give and get this Christmas!

5 days away...