15.8.08

hooray new things!

Tuesday night, I went to this totally amazing party. Since I had just gotten back from the West Coast, meaning many of my clothes are still in the mail (those that I couldn't shove into my painfully undersized suitcase, and that, clearly, meaning MANY), and since I was feelin' deceptively flush, I went to Beacon's Closet that afternoon with the notion of just, straight up, purchasing something. No trading, no dilly dallying and putting things on hold and then forgetting about them: no. If I found a dress and shoes that fit, I was prepared to throw down the Wamu Gold right then and there.


So, with this new found freedom coursing through my veins, I obviously expected to find zip, zilch. That would just be toooo easy, right? Well ha! For once, I won. I found this pretty little dress (actually, it was once considerably less little, and being sans sewing machine, I was forced to just hack it off a few minutes before rushing out the door... just don't look too closely) and,


these shoes which, yes, tore my feet to all hell within the first 15 minutes of stumbling around between the subway and the South Street Sea Port. I'm sorry I don't have a picture of me wearing all this. So maybe I was too busy getting down to some serious talk of Gem Sweaters. So sue me.

22 comments:

Eyeliah said...

Your dress is a slice of heaven.

dw said...

your dress is yummy and so sweet looking (makes me think of strawberry cheesecake for some reason...) and those shoes! vintage tan heels were on my hunt list all summer...alas, i do not have your luck.

Outi said...

Oh, what a sweet dress! I think it actually looks like something onemight eat. :)

styledigger said...

I like this dress. So cute!

Anonymous said...

lovely dress!

Milla said...

Awesome dress, shoes, by the looks of it, soiree, too.
Thanks for the ferry tip, it looks swe-eet!

Anonymous said...

Pretty things!

FashionSqueah! said...

I too am guilty of the hem hack! It's not even that I don't have access to a sewing machine, I'm just really lazy! It really is a pretty dress though, lovely colour. Char x

Aliliisa said...

such a pretty dress :)

superumi said...

lovely treasure!

xoxo =)

eva said...

This dress is very cute! Seems that the party was crazy! I wished I was in New York..oh well Paris is not that bad ;)Good luck fo your job hunt!

Anonymous said...

Beacon's closet is one of my fav' place in Brooklyn..! I really love the organisation by color inside... Pretty dress, lovely shoes and nice blog ;)

xo, tara said...

what? whaaaaaat? you found that amazing dress at Beacon's?!?!!? i have just reached new levels of speechless. so jelly.

xo, tara said...

p.s. i'm sorry i didn't get to dance and be crazy with you at the party! what a shame. i'm glad i got to at least say hi: )

Caro said...

lovely & pretty

:)

Anonymous said...

I love the colour of the dress - it would have gone perfectly with the shoes. :D

esme and the laneway said...

Two great finds in one go, cool!

discotheque confusion said...

oh wow that dress.

wait.

oh wow those shoes!

Samantha said...

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emily said...

i adore that dress so much!

Ringo, have a banana! said...

Thanks everyone! I'll admit, even when I did have easy access to a sewing machine I pulled the ol' hack-n-run on...most occasions. I'm working on mending my ways (step one: retrieve former sewing machine from California, no easy task I assure you).

And tara, I'm sad we didn't get to boogie down at the party, but I'm glad we at least got to say hi. Oooh, and I totally spilled a glass of water ALMOST all over Debbie and her friend. It was priceless, obviously. Go me!

Rebecca Jane said...

I love that dress! So sweet and pretty!