Overall rating
Size: | A5 |
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Colours: | Blush (crème) |
Cost: | $24.00 USD |
Personalisation: | No |
Country: | USA |
Available from: | www.katespade.com |
For: | Cute look and feel, generous 280 pages, 6 page ribbons |
Against: | Lacking useful features, page ribbons all same colour |
First Impressions
First thing’s first, this isn’t a leather notebook. It’s in this mix because we feel a majority of our younger fan-base know and appreciate Kate Spade, the New York based lifestyle accessories and fashion brand.
This product arrived in glued plastic sleeve appropriate for a ‘stationary product’ and opening the packaging wasn’t a memorable experience. It has a light crème/tan coloured ‘book cloth’ cover, which has a level of charm unto itself, especially with “ESCAPE THE ORDINARY” printed onto the front cover.
The inside front and back covers showcase bright gold foil accents with a polka dot pattern.
It has six (not a typo!) fluorescent orange page ribbons, which are quite alluring. Let’s see how useful these are during our 1-week review.
1 Week Review
The Kate Spade journal notebook is quite charming in its own right. The ‘blush’ coloured book cloth cover feels amazing to the touch, but is susceptible to collecting marks during day-to-day travels.
The pages are of a high quality ‘parchment’ colour, and are a heavier stock than every journal notebook we’ve reviewed. This means you can attack your creative writing with any pen and never worry about bleed through or blotching. There’s also 280 pages so you’re unlikely to run out of space anytime soon, but unfortunately they’re permanently fixed to the journal and not replaceable. At $24.00 USD for a new one, this won’t be an issue for anyone.
Now to the dazzling array of six fluorescent orange ribbons. The benefit from these is that you have a means of marking every important journal subject imaginable. The problem is that you won’t know which one is which. It would have been useful to have some variation in colour so these ribbons can be told apart from each other.
Criteria Review
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OVERALL
6
“Cute and gorgeously crafted with a huge page count!”
Conclusion
Kate Spade, the name known by trendy young fashionistas all over the globe, produces a worthy journal that is charming in its own right. It represents great value at $24.00 USD, and while the ‘book cloth’ finish feels great, it will collect dirt and marks if you’re not careful during daily use. The 6 fluorescent page ribbons are dazzlingly attractive, but we wish we could tell them apart. If you’re a Kate Spade fan, we feel you’ll definitely want to add this journal notebook to your collection.