In Search of Myself: It's all about the LB

This post is mostly for JenA and Kelly, but the rest of you can read it, if you want.

Remember that party I had to go to last week, for Uncle Roger and Aunt Julie's 25th wedding anniversary? Well I had NOTHING to wear, and $50 in Real Women's Dollars to cash in (meaning I could get $100 worth of clothes for $50.) I also had a $25 off $75 coupon. AND the manager on duty was feeling generous and she gave me two extra coupons -- so I got $200 worth of clothes for $100. (And I put it on my LB gold card, so I can deal with it AFTER Christmas! Not a good idea, but at the time I didn't care!!!)

Here is some of what I got: a black shirt with a COOL pink broach (above). This is what I wore to the party, with black pants, black shoes (and a black bra . . . heh.) Once I picked out this shirt, I knew I HAD to have these earrings! They're so gorgeous! I kept coming back to them and thinking "no, I can't pay $25 for a pair of earrings" but I just couldn't walk away from them. They were my Christmas ME splurge. (Oh, and I got a necklace, too -- it's the same color "jewels," looks like a broach on a ribbon for the necklace. Couldn't find a picture of it online, tho. And no, I didn't wear the necklace to the party -- with that shirt, it would be total overkill.)

I also had to get the black sweater with embellishments around the neck and wrists. I rationalized this with the fact that I needed something new to wear to the piano recital, something that looked Christmassy but classy (the embellishments remind people of snowflakes, so that's the Christmassy party.)

The pink sweater poncho was pure fun. I almost got just a sweater of the same material (yarn/weave?) but decided a poncho was much more fun. The problem is, on the hanger and on the manaquin it hangs just right, but on me it's a "down on one shoulder" kinda thing. I have a tank top of the same color (thank you, Anne Taylor!) that covers most of my shoulders, so when I wear my sweater poncho I'm not showing too much arm skin. It IS, however, very hard to go about my day -- typing, copying, driving, carrying Jake, etc -- while wearing it. So it's more for looks than practical. I'm going to keep wearing it, though. heh.

And now, pretty much I'm not going to get to buy anything new for several months. But I'm happy with these couple new things. And even though it's not as great as it used to be, I still love Lane Bryant!

Comments

I love those clothes! And the earrings are gorgeous (I want to go shopping at lunch time now). Of course we don't have LB here. Or coupons :( I read all the time about you ladies using coupons - where do you get them? We just pay whatever price is on the tag unfortunately. Which one will you be wearing on Christmas day?

Posted by: Sue | December 15, 2004 at 05:01 PM

Too cute Jen! Thanks for shout out! I hope one of these days I dont have to shop there though ;) How are you feelin today? How about Jake?

Posted by: Kelly | December 16, 2004 at 08:26 AM