I should have known.
It's inevitable that when one dresses up specially in any way with a particular someone in mind, 75% of the time their day will go differently than they had planned in such a way that they never actually end up seeing that particular someone and so they have to go and do it again some other day. Also, it isn't uncommon for the person who is dressing up to be completely caught off guard looking icky and messy and bummy by said particular person upon their next meeting. And that, my dear friends, is life.