I should have just let the grey marl YSL cocktail dress fantasy remain exactly that; a fantasy locked inside an ad featuring Kate Moss.  Instead, I surfed on over to the USA YSL e-commerce site (quite frightening at the pace designers are all launching these...) and found faced with a $2000 pricetag for the dress and a slightly more do-able $800 for the trousers in the same material.  Then the grey marl sweatshirt material was forced to invade my brain once again last week at the Mandi Lennard press day when I discovered Danielle Scutt's AW08-9 collection features a few pieces in said material, which I didn't detect from initial views of the lookbook.  Quilted details, buckles and tailoring all transform the material from what we would expect from it.  YSL made it chic.  Scutt has made it tough. 

All this precarious tangibility means that now I can't get the idea of turning the humble grey marl sweatshirt material on its heels and doing something quite unexpected with it, out of my head.  It is at times like this that I need to get a sewing machine of my own (sad child-like me has to trek to the parentals' house to sew stuff....) and raid the grey sweatshirt stock at American Apparel and see what I can come up with.  Trust that a grey sweatshirt Susie sweatshop project is imminent.