I blame Claudia Kishi

I’m going to attend a wedding in the beginning of August (holy carp, when did it become July 23rd?) and I’ve been going over the dress selection in my closet. Since I favor white eyelet dresses, I’m afraid the pickings are slim. While the black halter dress with cherries all over it, is cute for a cool summer night (or a rockabilly convention), it does not say “Hello, I am a grown up at a wedding.” There is a green wrap dress, but I think the material is way too thin for a evening wedding. I’ve been looking for a grown up dress, but with no real success. I can only have two out of the three: cheap, flattering, and classic. Fortunately, this is the internet and on the internet I can be/have whatever I want…

I think my favorite is the River of Grass dress (third one). I’m not so sure about the teal color on the BCBG dress, but I love the sweetheart neckline. I drooled over the rambling rose dress in the Anthro. catalog, but now I’m not so sure how I would look in it. Fake internet decisions…

And since I’m riding on this train of wishful thinking:

It doesn’t say on the FP website, but I’m pretty sure these are Becky Kelso rings. And how I wish I could magically have $268 (+tax) in order to buy one. I think they are both in need of a good home (on my fingers) and I should go kick myself for having majored in a liberal arts degree that is pretty useless. I knew my degree wouldn’t get me the babes or riches, I did it out of love for the subject, but this was before I knew about the existence of these rings.

Like most people, I’m over winter and I’m ready for spring to come out. Not that I’ll get to experience much of spring being locked up in a windowless cube type thing all day long, but at least I’ll be able to imagine it being nice and warm outside.

I think I’ve officially read way too many issues of Lucky because as soon as I tried this slip dress, a voice rang in my head advising that I could wear a pair of motorcycle boots to balance out the cutesy girlyness of the dress. I don’t even own a pair of boots, much less a pair of motorcycle boots. I’m almost tempted to go in the opposite direction and make it really girly, but I’ll probably end up layering a thin tee underneath and maybe a pair of cuffed jeans.

I’m supposed to update this thing every now and then. Hmm.
One of my biggest clothing weakness happens to be the fact that I am truly head-over-heels in love with eyelet. My love usually prefers dresses, but if it’s cute I’ll probably lust after it.

So I did a happy dance when I happened upon this:

Holly Sharp Eyelet Dress

I want. I have a gift card that would leave me paying just enough that my bank card is all WTF is wrong with you and why won’t you buy the damn thing already instead of scaring the South Moon people by staring at that dress.

The problem is I brought the same dress last year (only in the white swiss dot material) and I never wore it. Partially because I was not happy with my body (and still am not happy actually) and because I was convinced I needed a tan in order to pull the dress off. So I’m pretty sure the same thing will happen again, and I will just stare at the dress with the sadness.

I do need to find a dress that isn’t so seasonal…hmm…