I don't know what you're looking for exactly, but you do live a train ride away from the Mecca of knock off purses for ultra cheap. If you want something from a real store, on some of their sale weekends, Macy's has some nicer purses right around the $50 mark.
Yeah, Chinatown is the most reliable resource for bags for me and I do tend to get them there. But this one broke after six months (shocking, I know) and I'd rather just get one from a real store this time.
Remember my question about the Ortho Evra patch? yeah, fuck that ho. The three weeks I had it on were the most miserable three weeks in a LONG time. I couldn't make it through the day without a nap, getting out of bed was an incredible effort, my skin broke out, I was weak, I wanted to cry all the time. I felt lost. Fuck. That. Shit. Since peeling that sumbitch off my buttcheek the real me is back and yeah - I'll be swallowing from now on and I'm pretty sure that my cycle has changed enough that I shouldn't be on my period every time I see The Husband.
Is Century 21 still open downtown in the financial district? When we lived there, my wife loved that store. A lot of designer clothes and accessories on the cheap for both men and women.
I stood in the dressing room for fifteen minutes wondering where the fuck I would wear a floor-length sequined gown. The answer was that I have absolutely no place now or in the future that I would wear something like this. So I bought it. I think I shall wear it to clean the house. Maybe I'll wear it to my funeral. Whatever, I feel like a winner now.
You made the right decision. That dress is awesome. I feel like you could probably style it down a little to wear it to something, but I don't really have any fear of being overdressed so I'm not the greatest judge.
Unfortunately, I live in Portland, the land where wearing anything other than jeans means you're dressed up. But I will find a way to wear this thing, so help me. It's too sparkly to not share it with the world.
It's awesome. You should get some red gloves and other accessories and find a dude to dress up in a tux to take you to a movie premier. It could be anything. What's the next big movie that is coming out?
Forget wearing that thing on Halloween, it will look like sequined Barbarella getup by the end of the night. You should throw a formal ball in your apartment. Make the whoresdevoures, get some classy tunes, turn away any guy not wearing an ascot or a cummerbund, any girl not in a dress that goes below the knee. Get a cheap discoball or get creative with the lighting. It'll be like prom. How this doesn't regularly happen in Portland is beyond me.
I don't think you need any excuse. Go eat dinner at a nice restaurant. Go to a wine bar. Sit in a Starbucks. Go to your local dive bar and tell everyone you just came from a charity ball, but they ran out of beer.
Add some red pointy-toed heels, a long and voluminous (faux, because you're in Portland) white fur coat, some red elbow length gloves, and spray the left half of your hair white with temporary hair dye. And now you're Cruella DeVille...just in time for Halloween.
I thought that was your Selina Kyle dress. I think that'd be what you wear to start with then switch.
You guys are awesome! I feel validated in my decision to buy completely unnecessary things (that are so, so necessary. I needs it). And Parker, I didn't buy it specifically to be that, but I'm definitely using it in that capacity, if not for Halloween then another time. I shall also be using all other suggestions until I find a way to just be wearing this 24/7 like a crazy sparkly bag lady.
Buy a super cool costume mask and you're basically on the path to being a superhero. All you need to do now is think of an awesome superheroine name. Maybe Lady Liberty? The Dilettante? Mighty Mistress? Princess Portland? I don't know. You should definitely wear that at your local comic book shop and give the nerds something to dream about. It's practically your civic duty.
So I need help from the resident ladies. The girl just graduated from her masters program. What's a good way to congratulate her for that? I was thinking a nice dinner out and maybe some flowers. I don't want to buy any jewelry or anything, as I'm trying to save up for a ring.
I can't tell if you're serious. She just graduated and you want to do dinner and flowers? My ex wanted to do more than that when I finished a semester (which I thought was ridiculous). Of all the people in her life, you probably know more than anyone how much energy and financial resources she's put into the last 2 years AND you know what she'd appreciate to celebrate graduating. Take her to dinner and a concert. Take a weekend roadtrip to somewhere relatively close/cheap. Go camping. Go to dinner and book a night in a nice hotel room or bed and breakfast. Buy her a nice handbag or watch. I think graduating from grad school is a big deal. She probably worked really hard, and it's something that only happens once.