Sales Season is here

October 25th, 2009

Change in the weather season brings change in the sales season

It’s October, the cooing off month, the month when we take out our winter wear and the month I need money to update my wardrobe. I take one look at the latest sweatshirts, tracksuits and sneakers and I want everything I see. But there’s big spending competition out there. October is also sales month, the time when the stores hang out all the stuff they couldn’t sell to make place for the winter goods.

Just look at it!

Have you taken a look at the shoes in the windows? And at the clothes hanging on racks outside the stores? All the stuff I couldn’t afford before summer is now on sale at half price and I’m determined to buy and buy and buy. At least I’ll have it for next summer. I may be able to even wear some of those clothes and shoes this month.

The sandals

The problem with sales shopping, as all we women know, is that you start with one little item, say a pair of sandals. They are light, they are pretty, they are something you will wear only a few times when you go down to the beach and they are cheap. So you buy them. It’s no big deal, and buying on a sale and getting a bargain is like getting a vitamin shot, it makes you feel good. The assistant puts them in a bag, you pay and turn to walk out and you see that pair of shoes that you have been looking for the whole year. Is this where they’ve been hiding?

The shoes

You try them, they fit well so you buy them too. They were not exactly on the sale, but right next to it and anyway the assistant said they were reduced. The shoes are Burgundy, a deep shade of red almost unknown in the fashion industry. They need a dress to make them look good.

The dress

Now the hunt starts. You go from store to store, the cheap ones, the expensive ones, the ones with the sales and the ones that never hold sales. You find a red dress. It’s not exactly burgundy, more Bordeaux. You’ll have to put the shoes on to make sure these colors are in sync and don’t clash. The color match is good. The price of the dress is no joke, but as the assistant assures you, it’s the only one in town. I think a little bolero jacket would go well on that dress. We have something in black in wild Thai silk, Madam. There, isn’t that stunning?

The glasses

At home you put all the shopping on and stand in front of the mirror. Not a bad day’s work, you think. There are still a few adjustments necessary. Change in nail varnish and lipstick for sure and oh my, new spectacles. Super high density progressive bifocals and brother do they cost!

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