This top is gorgeous.  The color (oatmeal) and material are superb!  It looks and feels like expensive material.  But it looked ridiculous on me!  I'm 50ish, 5'9", 175 lb...normally wear a size 16--got this in XL...  Out of all the cloths Heidi offered I thought surely this would look good on me...But no...it was the length---not the width---that got me.  If I pulled it down in back to cover my derriere then the front came way up exposing my rounded belly.  I suppose I could wear a real tight girdle...but what's the point in having a loose top?  And even if my belly were flat, this style--pulled up in the front--would look ridiculous on someone my age.  This look is fine for the teens and early twenties.  But who on earth that age has the money to buy it? My house is paid for.  My car is paid for.  I have no major debt.  I'm an aging baby boomer who wants to look and feel young again.  I try to eat right and exercise.  I have nothing to spend my money on but healthfoods, vitamins, botox and cloths that make me look and feel good.  Would someone out there please make them?

I have a sewing machine and used to sew a lot of my own cloths in my twenties.  I'm ready to start making them again.  I know what I want.  I want that 80's look that was "IN" when I was young and couldn't afford it. I thought you had it Heidi.  I was already planning to buy this in black in the XL.  And I was going to get those leggings that are ruched with the ties on the side.  They are so cute and my legs still look good.  But after trying this poncho on I looked at those leggings again and realized the waiste is low cut.  I don't want to walk around wondering if my pants are on the ground...I want to feel something around my waiste so I know my cloths--especially something as comfortable as leggings---are up where they should be.

The bigshirt, dolman-sleeved oversized top is coming back...I'm seeing it more and more...it's gradually being reintroduced as though the manufacturers are testing the market to see if it will sell....It will...the biggest market for that type of cloths is the baby boomers..The last time this style of clothing was in was the 80's.  A good time in most of our lives...a good time in this country and most of the world...If we could just capture some of that good feeling again by wearing cloths like we wore then maybe all the craziness in the world now would go away for a little while!

I love you Heidi, and I love the cloths you have designed!  Please, please make some to fit me in a flattering way.  Go watch some old "Dallas" shows.  Look at what Sue Ellen and Pamela are wearing---that's what I want! The cloths you have designed in this collection have a fit that makes them look more like the ones the teenage niece, Lucy, wore.

UPDATE:  I ordered this poncho in the charcoal grey/salmon color on the chance that it might be a different length...and it was longer so that now it covers both my butt and belly at the same time!  That's the good news.  The bad news is that it arrived very wrinkled and twisted up.  It came  from Coffeyville Kansas and was just thrown in a large box with 24 boxes of whole wheat macaroni,  6 boxes of whole wheat crackers, and three boxes of organic cookies.  They were all together in a large box with some plastic pillow wrap. The macaroni, etc. apparently pummeled and beat the heck out of the Heidi Klum poncho all the way from Kansas to Texas.  It was half hanging out of it's plastic bag, and the big box they all came in was nearly busted open.  The poncho looked like a loss...not a quarter of an inch of it wasn't wrinkled.  I was going to send it back but it fit so good that I decided to see if I could salvage it.  I hand washed it in cold water and woolite and hung it over a towel I had put on my shower curtain rod.  I kept checking on it every few hours and reshaping it as it dried...walla!  That worked.  The little wrinkles came out and most of the big ones too.  I could wear it as is or touch it up with the iron for a more polished look.  No I'm not going to send it back.  But I would hesitate to order any more cloths that are so delicate from Amazon.  Apparently they aren't used to handling this type of item.  I have blouses and other clothing shipped to me on a regular basis from HSN and QVC and never had anything like this happen!

If anyone from Amazon is reading this....you need to develop an exlusive way to ship your exclusive clothing...Take a lesson from Victoria's Secret....They use strong sturdy plastic bags that are opened easily along a perforated line.  Then there is a part of the tab you can reuse and reseal the bag should you decide to return the item.  As expensive as the Heidi Klum line is---it would make me feel very special if it were delivered in a specially marked bag.  And wanting to feel that special feeling again and again I would continue buying those cloths!

Anyway, at least this poncho fits me the way I want it to and I like the color and material.  So I've decided to give it five stars now...anything made out of silk and modal that could survive the shipping process like it did is made pretty sturdy.  Now I won't be afraid to wear it and wash it alot.  So, five stars for Heidi, and a big ZERO for the Amazon shipping department!