Shopping Report: the 5th Day of Christmas
Dec. 30th, 2007 02:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gerisullivanMy shopping fu is mighty. There's a lot of 4-part harmony to accompany that statement, but for tonight, you'll just have to take these highlights and my word for it. Well, mine and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elaine_brennan's. I called and told her the tale when I emerged from the mall down at Buckland Hills tonight. She'll vouch for me.
The highlights include finding a top that goes with the velvet duster jacket I bought the other day. Normally my closet is golden on such matters, but it betrayed me this time around. I found the brown, metallic shell for under $20...and walked out of the store without buying anything else there!
I remembered to stop at Blue, picked up the item I needed...and scanned just that single item at the self-checkout.
I found several other small gifts and household items that were on my shopping list.
But none of that or other shopping successes prepared me for tonight's encounter with the Women's Department at Macy's. After trying on several items, learning some surprising things, I found myself empty-handed. The surprising things include the fact that the current neckline on August Silk silk-blend shells does not flatter me. Damn! I love the black August Silk shell I bought, oh, forever ago, and I was delighted to find black, purple, teal, and other colors I liked tonight. Then I didn't buy any of them, 'cause the neckline made the whole thing look too much like an undershirt instead of an attractive piece of clothing. On a more pleasing front, the jeans I thought would fit turned out to be too loose to buy.
Then I wandered by the special occasion dresses on my way over to the lingerie department. Oh, my, there was a pretty one. It looked comfortable, too. I thought I was through trying on clothes, but when I dress calls to me that strongly, I have to at least see what it looks like.
It looked good enough that I found myself giving serious consideration to the state of my budget, and likely future opportunities for the wearing of such apparel. It's not that fancy, and, as we all know, being in fandom means never having to ask but "where would I wear that?" Still, I already had a new outfit for the NESFA New Year's Party atdebgeisler and benventiste's.
My budget is such that I contemplated buying the dress with PROmote funds, then not wearing it until the Ig Nobel ceremony in October (well, unless another business opportunity presents itself before then). It wasn't all that expensive, especially compared to the last special occasion dress I bought. But it was clearly an impulse item, and I welcomed the fact that I have a legit option of wearing it only for business-related functions.
I liked it. The price was reasonable as such things go even though it wasn't marked down at all. None of us are surprised I decided to buy it.
No, the surprise came at checkout. The clerk asked if I wanted to use my Macy's card. Doing so would save me $6, and they could look it up since I didn't have the card with me. Okay, $6 is $6. We updated my address, though I would have sworn I'd done so after moving 4 years ago. (I really don't use that card much!)
Then it was time to approve the amount and sign.
The terminal showed the total. $33.99.
Say, what?!
"Is this the right amount?" I asked. My voice was full of doubt.
Color me croggled. Yes, it was the right amount. "We didn't mark everything that's on sale," the clerk explained. Heck, it wasn't even on the sale rack. It was on another rack of special occasion dresses, none of which was marked down. But there it was -- marked down to $39.99, less another 15% for using my Macy's charge account. It's my best-ever $34 party dress!
Forget making it a business-only. I'll see the New Year in wearing that dress. The other new outfit will be similarly over-the-top when we return for brunch later on New Year's Day, but a little extra festivity seems a good way to mark the end of a remarkably good year and to welcome the adventures 2008 promises to bring my way.
$33.99.
Geez.
elaine_brennan's. I called and told her the tale when I emerged from the mall down at Buckland Hills tonight. She'll vouch for me.The highlights include finding a top that goes with the velvet duster jacket I bought the other day. Normally my closet is golden on such matters, but it betrayed me this time around. I found the brown, metallic shell for under $20...and walked out of the store without buying anything else there!
I remembered to stop at Blue, picked up the item I needed...and scanned just that single item at the self-checkout.
I found several other small gifts and household items that were on my shopping list.
But none of that or other shopping successes prepared me for tonight's encounter with the Women's Department at Macy's. After trying on several items, learning some surprising things, I found myself empty-handed. The surprising things include the fact that the current neckline on August Silk silk-blend shells does not flatter me. Damn! I love the black August Silk shell I bought, oh, forever ago, and I was delighted to find black, purple, teal, and other colors I liked tonight. Then I didn't buy any of them, 'cause the neckline made the whole thing look too much like an undershirt instead of an attractive piece of clothing. On a more pleasing front, the jeans I thought would fit turned out to be too loose to buy.
Then I wandered by the special occasion dresses on my way over to the lingerie department. Oh, my, there was a pretty one. It looked comfortable, too. I thought I was through trying on clothes, but when I dress calls to me that strongly, I have to at least see what it looks like.
It looked good enough that I found myself giving serious consideration to the state of my budget, and likely future opportunities for the wearing of such apparel. It's not that fancy, and, as we all know, being in fandom means never having to ask but "where would I wear that?" Still, I already had a new outfit for the NESFA New Year's Party at
debgeisler and benventiste's. My budget is such that I contemplated buying the dress with PROmote funds, then not wearing it until the Ig Nobel ceremony in October (well, unless another business opportunity presents itself before then). It wasn't all that expensive, especially compared to the last special occasion dress I bought. But it was clearly an impulse item, and I welcomed the fact that I have a legit option of wearing it only for business-related functions.
I liked it. The price was reasonable as such things go even though it wasn't marked down at all. None of us are surprised I decided to buy it.
No, the surprise came at checkout. The clerk asked if I wanted to use my Macy's card. Doing so would save me $6, and they could look it up since I didn't have the card with me. Okay, $6 is $6. We updated my address, though I would have sworn I'd done so after moving 4 years ago. (I really don't use that card much!)
Then it was time to approve the amount and sign.
The terminal showed the total. $33.99.
Say, what?!
"Is this the right amount?" I asked. My voice was full of doubt.
Color me croggled. Yes, it was the right amount. "We didn't mark everything that's on sale," the clerk explained. Heck, it wasn't even on the sale rack. It was on another rack of special occasion dresses, none of which was marked down. But there it was -- marked down to $39.99, less another 15% for using my Macy's charge account. It's my best-ever $34 party dress!
Forget making it a business-only. I'll see the New Year in wearing that dress. The other new outfit will be similarly over-the-top when we return for brunch later on New Year's Day, but a little extra festivity seems a good way to mark the end of a remarkably good year and to welcome the adventures 2008 promises to bring my way.
$33.99.
Geez.
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Date: 2007-12-30 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-30 06:44 pm (UTC)Speaking of pictures, how long do we have to wait to see The Dress?
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