Dress Mayhem
So anyone who knows me well knows I have a HUGE problem finding dresses that fit. They either don't zip up past a certain point, or I end up with incredibly expensive potato sack symdrome b/c of the disproportionality of my chest to the rest of my body... C'est la vie, right? So, needless to say, I hate going dress shopping, b/c it depresses me.
Unfortunately, I had to go looking for one for Footloose (come see it- opening THIS SATURDAY at 8pm at BayWay Arts Center in East Islip and running until July 29- let me know if you want details) in turquoise. That I could dance in. Including lifts. And jumps. Needless to say, this search was not fun.
I hit virtually every store imaginable looking for this damn dress, and as per usual, found stuff that fell into one of two categories- too expensive but fits or good price but no fit. Such is my life with dresses... so anyway, I went looking yesterday for probably the 100th time. Finally hit Walt Whitman, b/c it's worth checking everything at least once. So I go into Lord & Taylor, find a perfect dress, and low and behold, it's $101 (which I am not paying for a dress I plan on wearing for the show and nothing else). Typical. So, Jen is totally bummed out, and walks next door to Macys. Their dress dept. had NOTHING (it was seriously pathetic), but I figured, hey, I haven't fit into Juniors sizes since I was 16 (damn chest, making so many problems), but I know they will at least have the color, so why not check. I find a few that are a lycra-spandex blend that could work b/c of the stretch, and I am just wanting this to be over when I see this dress hanging on a rack. It's Jessica McClintock, and her dresses in normal sizes run small on a good day, forget about her junior sized ones. So I figured that there was no way it was going to be even close to a size I could get to zip... but it was. So I tried it on and low and behold it fits. And the price tag is marked $29.99. Which is totally do-able. So I go yes, I can go home and relax. I bring the dress up to pay for it... and it rings up at $9.99. So with my mom's coupon, this dress ended up costing $8.36 including tax. So in the end, I think the torture was supposed to happen so I could find this dress yesterday.
And that my friends, is the stupid story for the day. For all those interested, my mom's surgery (which I kept meaning to write about) went fabulously and she is coming home today (a week and a half later). the recovery is going well. So yay.
Unfortunately, I had to go looking for one for Footloose (come see it- opening THIS SATURDAY at 8pm at BayWay Arts Center in East Islip and running until July 29- let me know if you want details) in turquoise. That I could dance in. Including lifts. And jumps. Needless to say, this search was not fun.
I hit virtually every store imaginable looking for this damn dress, and as per usual, found stuff that fell into one of two categories- too expensive but fits or good price but no fit. Such is my life with dresses... so anyway, I went looking yesterday for probably the 100th time. Finally hit Walt Whitman, b/c it's worth checking everything at least once. So I go into Lord & Taylor, find a perfect dress, and low and behold, it's $101 (which I am not paying for a dress I plan on wearing for the show and nothing else). Typical. So, Jen is totally bummed out, and walks next door to Macys. Their dress dept. had NOTHING (it was seriously pathetic), but I figured, hey, I haven't fit into Juniors sizes since I was 16 (damn chest, making so many problems), but I know they will at least have the color, so why not check. I find a few that are a lycra-spandex blend that could work b/c of the stretch, and I am just wanting this to be over when I see this dress hanging on a rack. It's Jessica McClintock, and her dresses in normal sizes run small on a good day, forget about her junior sized ones. So I figured that there was no way it was going to be even close to a size I could get to zip... but it was. So I tried it on and low and behold it fits. And the price tag is marked $29.99. Which is totally do-able. So I go yes, I can go home and relax. I bring the dress up to pay for it... and it rings up at $9.99. So with my mom's coupon, this dress ended up costing $8.36 including tax. So in the end, I think the torture was supposed to happen so I could find this dress yesterday.
And that my friends, is the stupid story for the day. For all those interested, my mom's surgery (which I kept meaning to write about) went fabulously and she is coming home today (a week and a half later). the recovery is going well. So yay.