Late Saturday morning I decided I should run out in the afternoon and get my hair cut. Then on my way out I decided I should shop around at the mall a bit, maybe hit one or two stores, and see if I could find another dress for an upcoming wedding in October. So that was the plan when I left the house at 1:45p. I returned home at 5:45p.
I had to wait a bit to get my hair cut so I went over to Gap to see what they had for dresses. They had nada. They also didn't have much else that interested me. Then I went to Ann Taylor Loft. The petite section had only 1 or 2 dresses to choose from and nothing that matched what I was looking for. Then I headed to Macy's. I stopped at the Prescriptives counter to pick up some of their awesome Mineral makeup foundation. Then I headed to the Petites and Dresses sections. I walked around and around and found a few dresses to try on. I also found a sweater I liked. Then a mannequin caught my eye and so I went searching for the dress it was displaying. I found it and they had it in my size. I tried it on and it fit perfectly. I thought it looked nice. It was pretty expensive (I guess that is relative but it was a lot more than I was hoping to spend) so I hemmed and hawed for quite a while, trying it on more than once comparing it to some of the other dresses. I ended up buying it. I figured I'd see what my boyfriend thought of it and simply return it if he wasn't too excited about it. It's been three years now and I still haven't learned -- he is not interested in fashion in the least and to him a dress is a dress. I did finally get him to say that he actually liked the other 2 dresses I had better. But he also said I should still wear this new one to his sister's wedding because one of the other ones kind of clashed with the colors of the wedding (wedding color is maroon-ish and dress is red). The other dress is black and he was thinking I should wear that to the rehearsal dinner. So now I am thinking I will just wear it anyway but I am a little paranoid it doesn't look as good as I thought it did and need to send pics of myself in each of the three dresses to my sisters to see what they think. Hopefully they will be a little more helpful.
So after that I was going to head home. Unfortunately Target and Old Navy are on the way home. And my car just turned itself into the plaza with both of those stores as I drove by. So I ran into Target but didn't stay long. Then I ran over to Old Navy. No dresses at Old Navy but I did find a great Peacoat and a great light-weight, hooded, white with green argyle sweatshirt.
Anyway, here is a tally of what I spent yesterday:
- hair cut + highlights + Tea Tree Grooming Pomade: $88.56
- Prescriptives foundation: $34.94
- dress + 2 sweaters: 244.41
- peacoat + hoodie: 77.11
Gand Total: $445.02
Yikes! Hopefully I've gotten the shopping bug out of my system for a little while.
In case anyone is curious and/or wants to leave their opinion, here are two pics of the new dress. I do apologize for the very poor picture quality.
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