Shots from the Dressing Room

We went shopping with our friend Holly last week. We each made a list of what we needed (all of us needed dresses and skirts, things for spring), and what we weren't allowed to buy (for me, black shirts or skinny jeans. For Holly, cotton shirts in solid colors. Denise wasn't supposed to buy anything, but...well, you'll see). We had two stores in mind: Daffy's and the Anthropologie basement. Just for the record, we made it to neither.

First stop, Brooklyn Industries:

Lots of spring items, and look! So many colors that aren't black or solid! Most of the spring clothes there were very light cotton, so there were some issues with clinginess. Still, there were some winners:

Kritti Dress, Forum Dress, Nisa Braided Tunic

Questions arose:

Like, is this a dress or a shirt? I really, really wanted it to be four inches longer and a dress, because it was a pretty bad shirt (but a potentially excellent dress). Turns out, according to their website, it's a dress. For someone incredibly short.

Heading to Anthropologie we got sidetracked at Urban Outfitters, usually a store for small, young, rich people, but with an occasional excellent sale rack (I got jeggings, justified because they are not, technically, skinny jeans). Denise, who has an eye for the potential in all things, found this silk-esque jumper (romper? isn't that what babies wear?) AND had the good sense to buy it,

(find that skirt I have on here)

though it took a great deal of time in the dressing room before being sure.

Then we walked by Second Time Around en route to the never-reached Daffy's, and became giddy at the amount of cheap clothes and forgot about our camera. Someone exactly Denise's size had just dropped off a load of summer dresses, and Holly and I discovered that we are the same size but have completely opposite style, so we threw things over the wall between our dressing rooms to make sure the right person had the right skirt. And, I tried on a vintage Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress that looked so horrible on me I banned all cameras.

Holly got the one good picture in the place, and then we were off before we got a SECOND parking ticket on the day.