Feelin’ Dressy? I am!
One thing I love about shopping at a thrift store is the variety of fashion you can see. You get to view what trends are slowly becoming less popular because you will see them start to show up in abundance in thrift stores.
Over the past few years, dresses of all styles, colors and lengths have really increased in popularity. In my attempt to purchase a good travel dress, I was amazed at the selection and many assortments of dresses just in my size alone at the local Goodwill!
So, in the hopes that I will be traveling to warm and beach-y places this year, I needed to find something that would look superb on, that could be worn dressed up or down, and even possibly worn over tights or leggings for the layered look. It is important to have different ways to wear one outfit if I’m traveling, especially since we now have to pay for baggage handling!
So, what should I get? Knowing that dresses average $5.00 at my local Goodwill, I started to try them on.
Should I choose the lovely unworn Kelly green Forever21 wrap dress that’s fun and flirty? Pretty ruffles, can be dressed up or down, but since I don’t look good in that green unless I’m tan, she was eliminated. And she looks like she would need ironing, which I loathe.
Or what about the skin tight stretchy animal print ArdenB sexy dress with an open back? So appealing, and doesn’t take up much baggage space, but isn’t all that versatile and I could NEVER have a fat day in that thing.
Hmm, maybe the absolutely stunning halter top lollipop fun and flirtatious Lily dress? Wow, so sweet, so cool, and I’d feel like a million bucks in it. But, it looks like it will wrinkle, and the possibility of wearing a bra with it is minimal. I need a bra. Bye, bye pretty dress. Someone else will snatch you up.
Well, then, what about the strapless J. Crew linen dress? Yep, perfect! It holds every goal I wanted for a travel dress: It is supposed to be somewhat wrinkled in look, I can wear a bra with it, with or without straps, it is something that you can wear on a beach or out dancing or to a date! It won’t take up too much of my limited baggage space and I can add a belt or leggings to it! Yes, this one was the winner. It was very easy sacrificing the $5.00 for such a wonderful dress.
(Apologies for the dresses being cut off, not sure what happened!)
