Reel Red Cardigan ~ Thrifted Pearl Strand ~ Antique Shop Go Gingham Girl Dress ~ eBay.com Embroidered Gloves ~ Thrifted Eyelet Petticoat ~ Thrifted Santa Cruz Beach Heel ~ Modcloth
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I think I’ve got a gingham virus affecting my brain. Seriously people ~ every time anything remotely gingham pops up on my computer screen I’m like “Ooo! That’s so cute!! Gotta have it/something resembling it RIGHT NOW”
Thus, how I acquired this dress. I was already in the process of bidding for another cute 50s cotton day dress on eBay when I some how stumbled onto this gorgeous blue-checked beauty. It was love at first sight. I’ve been hunting down the perfect gingham dress since last summer, so I knew this one had to be mine. Never mind that it’s autumn, almost winter here, and that I was already in the process of bidding on one unwearable summer dress. I had to have this unwearable summer dress too!
I promptly turned around to my husband and said that I hoped my bid on the previous dress fails because I want this one more! However, as the luck o’ the eBy would have it {seriously, how perverse is it?!! Always giving you things you don’t want, and never the things that you do!} my offer was accepted, so now I had to decide what to do.
Ha. Yeah, right. The decision was pretty much foretold, and I sat on tenter hooks, waiting for the auction to end so I could bid. Did I mention that I am really, really, really bad at bidding? The auction nerves swallow me alive, and my Twitter feed bore the brunt of it because Husband thought it was all quite a ridiculous fuss over nothing. Nothing! It’s ONLY the MOST PERFECT gingham dress EVER!
Needless to say I won it, and now that I have it in my sweaty little grasp, it is never escaping… *bwhahhaaahhahahahaha! etc*
Do you like how I managed to sneak in at least one wear of it before winter starts? > U < Never underestimate the power of a cute dress!
xox,
bonita
P.S. ~ Yes, I’m not forgetting about my shoes, I would like to talk about them too, but thought that it would make this post even more ridiculously long. Short story ~ I saw them on The Glamorous Housewife, wanted them, ordered them, waited for them, found them on my front doorstep, unwrapped them, gasped/exclaimed/danced over them, then loved them forever! ; )
