I did it. I admit it. I went shopping with my most enabling friend Liz. It was good. We started off with cookies and then it all went downhill. It ended in Anthropologie-the scene of many a panic attack for me. I thought I could just be there for the paper products or maybe to add another plate to my collection but no…..I innocently went into the dressing room with Liz. She tried on the cutest black blazer…..the lining was red silk with little white scottie dogs….the patches on the elbows were adorable. It did not fulfill its potential on Liz. (Though many other things did.)
I didn’t think it would hurt if I tried it on….It was so cute on the hanger. Try it on I did. Somehow in my lack of shopping, I had a hallucination that it looked adorable on me if only I could have it tailored a little.
I walked, nay, RAN to the front to buy the blazer but enroute I saw an adorable blouse that was a lovely cream with light and dark purple seagulls flying all over it. I didn’t dare intentionally go into the dressing room to try it on so I just whipped it on over my t-shirt right then and there. Lo and behold it was glorious-perfect!
I scurried up to the counter and paid before I could talk myself out of any of it. It was there that the sticker shock began to set in. The blazer was $150 plus (I can’t even quite remember!) and the blouse was no bargain itself.
I bid Liz adieu and headed home. I couldn’t even take the bag out of my trunk and schlep it upstairs. I left it in my car for a week trying not to think about it or my shame.
Well, yesterday I retrieved the bag and brought it upstairs to reassess my purchases and I was quite surprised at what I found. It was almost as if I had the blinders removed. I tried on the blazer and couldn’t figure out how my dry cleaner (and tailor) could possibly alter it ENOUGH to make it look as flattering as I had thought it already was at the store. Next, I tried on the blouse. I even wore it downstairs to show my mom. She initially thought it was cute and as she looked at it a little longer she said, “You know, it’s actually a little too big in the back but the shoulders fit.” Then I had to show her that in fact, it gapped at the chest because even the the shoulders fit perfectly, clearly my boobs were too big or there was a shortage of fabric in that area.
Final analysis: Athropologie 0 and me 2.
Both items are getting returned post haste!
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