I am on a quest for a plaid skirt. Not the skanky, adult-fantasy-catholic-schoolgirl look. For one thing my thighs do not take too kindly to exposure and for another you need the physique of a string bean with the silly desire to be reduced to a breathing blow up doll to pull that one off. Nope, I want a full on retro plaid circle skirt that illustrates my retro aesthetic. Something like this:
Or this!
I particularly like the cowboy boots with this one! My biggest hurtle to overcome in my Quest is the strange, perverted, stubborn insistence I have that I will somehow manage to stumble across my perfect tartan skirt in a thrift store. For cheap at that. So I've been aimlessly wandering through some of my favorite thrift stores in the last few weeks hoping beyond hope that I will find "the one". In the meantime I have picked up some pretty glassware and a bunch of Highlander romance novels (yum, yum!) but no skirt. I came pretty darn close last night with a heavily pleated version in grey, turquoise and royal blue which was unfortunately a good two sizes too small for me. On second thought it was probably fortunate that it didn't fit me because both the color and cut aren't exactly flattering on me. *Sigh!*
I could of course shell out fifty or sixty dollars and buy one of the delicious skirts I've found online. Or this beautiful plaid dress I can't stop staring at:
If I hadn't recently decided to cut back on the spending I would be buying this beautiful dress instead of blogging about it.
*Sigh*
But I have hope. Push comes to shove I will just have to keep my fingers crossed and keep scouring the thrift stores, which is a reward unto itself come to think of it.
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