ready for something new

I went to the local, big, swanky, outdoor mall on Thursday night with the boy. I can’t believe I’m saying this but I barely saw a thing I wanted. Maybe it’s the sinus issues I’ve been having, mingled with sheer exhaustion but I wasn’t impressed with much of anything.

There was an adorable t-shirt at H&M that had a panel of pleated fabric applied with a bow and little black studs to look like a tuxedo shirt. Even the boy was impressed but alas, not in my size. Damn you tatas! Everything else I had already surveyed a month ago. Things felt very stagnant and it looked like the CDG collection had been wiped out by a swarm of locusts.

I had yet to go to the Urban Outfitters store there. Oh my god. I could live in that place. I even enjoy the way it smells! We split up and I made it my life’s mission to ask the staff if they had this and this and this that I had seen online. They only had one of the this-es, black waxed jeans – barely waxed. I’m dying for a pair of coated jeans but these were a sore disappointment that only looked shiny on the seams. I tried them on anyhow, along with a pair of grey leopard skinnies. No bueno. The mirrors made me look so short and squat. I know I am not that stubby! I made the boy try on the hottest pair of brown Deisel corduroy skinnies. They looked awesome but… were $150. Yeah. No. He got a t-shirt. I got disappointed.

I saw the Steve Madden ripoffs of the Report SignatureMasonic shoes I was in complete love with months ago. I can’t find the SM’s online. It’s just as well. They looked like total crap. The studs were staggered with grommets and they really lost the essence of what Report did. Bastards.

Report Signature Masonic

We wandered around a lot of shoe stores and I hate to say this but I’m sick of everything! I think there’s something to be said against reading fashion magazines and getting such early previews online for what will be available and in style later that year. I have been seeing certain styles of shoes since February that were intended to be enjoyed now and I can’t even get excited about them because I’ve been oversaturated. I have two pairs of ankle booties and enough platforms from when they were in a few years ago, I just don’t want to buy anything of the sort right now! The super high platform stilletos are the most impractical shoes. I can’t bring myself to try to class up a fetish shoe (which really is what those Report shoes above are, they just play to the sexpot side of me). Show me something new!

We stood in front of the Bebe store and I drooled over the most perfect outfit (a trim and edgy black leather jacket over a purple satin top that looked like it was shingled with satin squares tucked in a trim black tweed pencil skirt). Baby can’t afford Bebe.

So, after a few more purchases by the boy and a hilarious dinner, I was fine with leaving the shopping mecca of Richmond without anything new but definitely not empty-handed.

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