remember that last post when i said i'd update this regularly again?
oops.
i'm not sure if anyone still checks this, considering i pretty much abandoned it, leaving it without any updates for a couple months. so, if you are reading this, spread the news-- i'm back baby!
this semester has been nuts. i'm taking 17 credit hours, working as a TA, doing ifc, and becoming involved in numerous side projects that come my way. oh and i'm happy to say i'm becoming a part of signature entertainment (more to come on that in the future)!
as for right now, i'm on thanksgiving break, relishing in the fact that i can sleep as much as i possibly can. i have a decent amount of work to get done, but honestly, the biggest dilemma i'm facing is finding a dress for gretchen's wedding.
i think the last time i wore any kind of formal / semi-formal dress was sorority / fraternity formals during my freshman year at gcc. so, i need to buy a dress.
(one thing you should note: i love clothes, fashion, but i hate shopping. well, it is fun for maybe 15 minutes then i get bored and cranky. i also am super cheap, which doesn't help the situation).
shopping for a dress shouldn't be too hard, right? i mean, i'm not the bride, so it doesn't really matter what i wear, so long as it is appropriate and i feel at least a little comfortable in it. however, i'm finding that it's not as easy as you think.
although i am 22 years old, i still shop primarily in the junior's department, so naturally, i started there. here's an example of the typical dress (yes, it is a dress, not a shirt) i find:
Okay, not so bad if you are looking to bump and grind the night away at your high school homecoming... but not quite what I had pictured for my friend's big, beautiful wedding she is planning.
So, after seeing rack after rack of this type of dress, I thought to myself, "Maybe I'm just too old for the junior's department." After all, I am 22 and their target audience is probably 15.
So, I ventured off to the women's department to see if I'd have better luck.
Well, I learned that apparently, if you are old enough to be shopping in the women's department, you should just settle with covering your body in dresses that closely resemble burlap sacks. Exhibit A:
After unsuccessfully bouncing back and forth between the junior and women's department at a few stores, I decided a new tactic: try cooler stores.
So, I started off with Forever 21. Not the classiest, I know, but it is cheap and I have no money. Normally, I find Forever 21's oversized jewelry and glitzy clothes kind of endearing (let's face it, tacky jewelry is kind of my thing).
But seriously, going to a wedding in something like this? Really?
So, I decided to give in and try somewhere a little more expensive. I wasn't quite ready to go to BCBG or Anthropologie, but I figured I might be able to find something reasonable to Urban Outfitters.
They've got some cute dresses there. Like this one. It is conservative without being a burlap sack, young without being tween-y. Besides me still being unsure if there's a unspoken rule against wearing a black dress at weddings (I think it's okay in the winter??? I don't get these things.), I was sold on it.
That is, until I saw the price tag.
$264
...where's the burlap sack?
