Dress of the Week

[pnkrokhockeymom]

Okay, still not up to content.  But we are feeling mopey and full of longing to buy dresses we cannot afford.  So here's a pretty for you.  I would like to buy this and wear it to see Montreal play when the season starts.  But it's $795 at Saks.  So, um, no.  It's Dolce.  Like my glasses.  Huh.

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[rikibeth]

That IS a pretty, pretty dress.

That's more than twice as much as I've ever spent on a single item of clothing. That's my month's share of the RENT. Dear lord.

[pnkrokhockeymom]

I'm sayin', right?

I'm trying to think. I bought my prom dresses off a sale rack at Jacobson's in 1987, so, um, no. Last summer I bought a GREAT cocktail dress for my HS reunion that I plan to get more use out of, and that was like $120, and I was a little freaked by that. I don't think I've even paid half of that for any item of clothing, either. I got a coat once for almost $200, I've spent about $230 on a suit before, and I've spent about $200 on a great pair of tall boots on sale.

Nope. I cannot think of a single item of clothing that I've even spent $300 on. I OWN some clothes that at full price would have been more (some Tahari suits I got at TJ Maxx, I think, were $500 full price). But me pay? No way. No, no, no, no.

Unless we count Puppy's hockey skates. Last year they were $500. They are almost clothing, in that they go on his feet.

[rikibeth]

I dunno what my (pink, strapless, tea length, Gunne Sax) prom dress was in 1986. My mom paid for it, I didn't. She usually balked at paying in triple digits for anything but might have made an exception for that

[fidelioscabinet]

Go here, and look around. Ooh, my. Shiny! Not shiny, but subtle. Subtle, but highly dangerous. Then there's red. Not subtle, but who cares? Really, subtlety is overrated. But Up North a matching jacket is not overrated. I'm not all that fond of navy blue myself, but some people like it. Less lace, perhaps? You don't want to miss the Museum, either--go a few pages forward to the more recent examples.

[fidelioscabinet]

Oops.
I got that "Not shiny", right here.

[fidelioscabinet]

Also--don't look at the prices.

[pnkrokhockeymom]

I did and then was like, oops, shouldn't have done that.

But they are sooooo beautiful.

[fidelioscabinet]

All the links but the main page and the museum will probably die, eventually, but it's a site worth remembering.

[pnkrokhockeymom]

Yeah, that's how it is with the shoe of the week, too. Eventually, it's gone.