What Came After I Screamed
A packed coffee shop. A communal table. A magazine, stuffed between the pages of discarded newspaper. A latte (nonfat). A macchiato (also nonfat). A hot chocolate (with fat).
My poor mother-in-law almost slung her hot chocolate across the room when I turned a glossy page and screamed.
Here! Right here! This is IT! THE DRESS FOR ME!
In a haze of over-caffeination, I whipped out my iPhone and snapped a photo. MTM looked over my shoulder. I like it.
There. He liked it. He approved.
Perhaps, he was overcaffeinated, too.
It was only after I scared the whole place and snapped my photo that I really inspected it. Bottega Veneta. Over there on the other page. Words that must translate into English as “Freaking Expensive.”
All the way home in the car, I stared at my precious photo. Bet me, MTM. How much is that dress?
I say $1,500.
HAhahahahahahaha! I bet you it is more than that.
Nooooooo. It can’t be much more than that. I mean, look at it. It’s a few scraps of fabric sewn together with some swirly cut-outs.
Well, I bet it is at least $2,995.
No. Way.
If I’m closer, can I buy it?
*Sigh*
My traumatized mother-in-law watched in horror as I raced into the house. Jumped into the driver’s seat in front of my computer screen. Googled the dress. Shrieked like a banshee on crack.
For the second time that day.
$3,150, MTM. $3,150! I won the bet! I WON!!!!!
Um. Andra. Look at those words below the price……
SOLD OUT.
Two words that saved me from myself.
This post is part of the series Don’t Mess With the Dress. If this is your first visit to the series, please click here to go back to the beginning, go here for the second installment, click here for the third installment and go here for the fourth installment.
I approve of that dress… or something similar. Don’t fret over the price tag… I’m sure MTM can afford it… and Hey!… you deserve that dress.
If MTM spent $3,150 on a dress for me, I would probably kill him. I am glad it was so much, because I think it finally brought me to my senses.
You will look lovely… no matter the cost.
Christ, when I saw the picture I thought you’d bought the dress and had snapped yourself in the changing room mirror. I was going to ask if the the elixir of youth was thrown in for the $3150 . I was thinking “That can’t have happened just by being over caffeinated”:)
And, I haven’t lost THAT much weight.
I believe that an intervention may be in the offing to cure your dress fantasies. I still believe that bodypaint is the cost effective solution. I would post a tasteful vid of same, but, don’t want to see you taken off by the gendarmes.
If the cost of this dress wasn’t an intervention, I don’t know what could be.
I’m not always so practical but how many people actually *want or need* a $3k dress for it to be sold out.
That’s what I said. When I came to my senses……….
“Designer” dress — probably didn’t make more than 5 of ‘em!
And, yes, there are SOME folks who wouldn’t bat an eye!
If I COULD afford that much for a dress, I still don’t know if I could do it in the end………
When I win the Powerball tonight, I’ll spend the $3k on a nice dress for you if I have anything left after my wife starts shopping.
I am holding my breath, Howard.
I followed the link and see that they have stores all over the USA. As close as Atlanta and as far as Honolulu. Why not take the $3150 (hey you won the bet), buy a cute new bathing suit and you and MTM head out to Hawaii and go to the store, drool a bit, then hit the beaches?
We booked our Thanksgiving “No Family Holidays With Family” trip instead. It will be too cold for a bathing suit where we are going, but I think I will have money left over.
Find the dress, try it on, get someone to take a picture so that you can view yourself in it in the future. Remove the dress and hand it back to the assistant with the comment that the stitching isn’t up to your standard! Frankly, at that price the stitching would NEVER be up to standard
That is an excellent idea, Nuvofelt.
I’d rather have the trip (though for my money I’d choose someplace verrrrry warm). You surely look terrific, no matter the dress, so maybe some other “reward” is more in order?
We chose someplace verrrrrrrrrry cold.
And, I went back to my roots in the end. I’m very predictable.
OMLord! I cannot seem to wrap my head around paying that much for a dress, okay, even some furniture…(okay, maybe I’m exaggerating..a little). Mike wanted to buy wicker furniture (he saw in Lowe’s) for our living room…seriously…when we put the new flooring in and got rid of both of our loveseats.
Wow…all I can say is you’d look like a million bucks in that dress, it was a beauty…saved by the SO.
Did you end up getting the new furniture, Lori? I saw pictures of the floor project on FB.
I would never, ever be able to wear a dress that cost that much. I’d be afraid to take it out of the packaging for fear of ruining it immediately. It was a nice fantasy, but the reality of knowing I wasted that much money on one outfit would’ve driven me insane.
We are the same there Andra…and knowing me the first thing I’d do is snag it on something as I sashayed down the hallway (I don’t walk in a straight line – equilibrium is always off), bumping off the walls..then…I’d spill something on my chest… *sigh* so yup, there’s no way…plus I’d kill myself with guilt.
We haven’t found anything that we like enough to purchase so we borrowed a love seat and a couch from Mom and Dad’s house in Meridian (they actually live in Montana but still have a house full of furniture).
The floor came out really nice.
It does look awesome. I could totally see wearing it places, too. Your mother in law must have been DYING. So funny.
She puts up with me very well. After almost a decade, I think she’s mostly used to my shenanigans……..
That dress would have looked fabo on you. But picturing you squealing in the coffee shop – I think I know which one, with Michael’s mother looking on bemused as usual, well that is worth about 3K to me.
And, it was totally free.
Ooh, so pretty. They do some fabulous stuff.
For what it’s worth, while my splurge dress was not as much as that one, I have never for a second regretted buying it. (Post break-up, ha!) It is awesome to have something really fabulous in your closet.
Yeah, I’m an enabler.
Oh, and I do wear it.
I totally understand. I have a coat that gives me the same goose bumps every time I think about it.
Oh, Andra, at each turn of the page (or computer scream, er screen) you seem to hit a snag. Perhaps a vintage resale shop? tee hee
I never have any luck in those place, Penny. Largely because they are so packed full of stuff that I get overwhelmed as soon as I walk in the door.
For that price it should come with the model in the picture! Or at least the boots. Better yet the mode, in the boots. Yup, I might, maybe, might, pay that much for the full package. But I still doubt it.
You are funny, Carnell.
After Miss TK’s comment the other day, I looked up ideeli, and joined… Look what I just found: http://www.ideeli.com/events/104686/offers/5608002/latest_view/2907790 Similar, yet MUCH more reasonable.
It is a gorgeous dress.
Perhaps it’s serendipitous it was sold out?
I’m very glad it was.
That’s a gorgeous dress, but—————-maybe not THAT gorgeous. Yes, THAT gorgeous! Whew————–
Hugs,
Kathy
Nothing is that gorgeous………
The bodice reminds me of a Rorschach ink blot.
That’s hilarious, Nancy.
You know how to pick ‘em! I don’t even know where to look for a dress at that price. But you’d look like a million bucks, Andra. So take that photo, find a dressmaker…it can be done!
D
And, with a dressmaker, I could have the black parts made out of something besides velvet. No matter how much it costs, velvet never holds up well when one sits in it.
it is classic elegance – perfect.