{"id":117,"date":"2010-05-15T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T06:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.benaimfletcher.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2010-05-15T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T06:16:00","slug":"dress-and-shoes-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Dress and Shoes&#8230; CHECK!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fantastic news&#8230; I bought my [replacement] dress this morning!  <\/p>\n<p>Steve has to spend 6-7 hours at a work orientation in Miami, so I was a nice fianc\u00e9 and drove him up there. Good thing too since the most direct route was all torn up and I needed to use my old shortcuts around the city. Rather than drive the 45min back down to Homestead, I hung out in my old stompin&#8217; grounds.  I went to Dadeland mall, with the intention of hitting all the anchor stores and seeing what they had. <\/p>\n<p>Nordstrom, not anything of my taste in the dress section. Moved on to Macy&#8217;s, wandered around checking all the rack, honing in on white and blue and finally saw it. White, short, lace, full skirt, ribbon belt.  I grabbed 2 sizes, wandered some more, then hit up the dressing room. A-dor-able!  <\/p>\n<p>I could envision it with a different color belt. The skirt is full enough to allow for numerous petticoats, depending on how full I want it. The straps are wide enough that I don&#8217;t need to worry about special undergarments&#8230; hello, Spanx!  And the lace is simply gorgeous!  I texted a handful of friends with a picture and posted it to twitter. The reaction was all positive and for a whopping $75 plus tax, the beauty was mine! Yes, she was on sale, but even the regular price of $99 was damn reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>At the &#8220;suggestion&#8221; of a friend, I ended up hitting up all the shoe stores in the mall and found some super cute cobalt blue wedge sandals.  Granted, by the time I bought them, I felt like my feet were going to fall off between the blisters &#8211; Chucks with no socks is evil! \u2013 and walking on the sprained ankle. The sales girl was wearing them in black, which is always a good sign of extreme shoe comfort, and told me she is pregnant, another good sign. They were mine. Another $45.  <\/p>\n<p>Bear in mind that <b><a href=\"http:\/\/needles-pens.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/dress-she-is-gone.html\">the other dress<\/a><\/b> sold for $279 plus shipping, so I am definitely under the budget I set for myself.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little sneak peek of the gorgeous lace and shoes:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_-IKaV82Z3Eo\/S--LPkjgLzI\/AAAAAAAAAZs\/N4U3Ri5lMuM\/s1600\/laceandshoe.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_-IKaV82Z3Eo\/S--LPkjgLzI\/AAAAAAAAAZs\/N4U3Ri5lMuM\/s400\/laceandshoe.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I purchased 1.5&#8243; wide orange ribbon and 5\/8&#8243; blue ribbon. My plan is to sew the blue to the orange and replace the black ribbon currently on the dress. The ribbon currently falls higher up that I like, so I&#8217;ll be cutting off the loops as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantastic news&#8230; I bought my [replacement] dress this morning! Steve has to spend 6-7 hours at a work orientation in Miami, so I was a nice fianc\u00e9 and drove him up there. Good thing too since the most direct route was all torn up and I needed to use my old shortcuts around the city. 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