It used to annoy me to no end to flip through a magazine like VOGUE or BAZZAR and see ever so pretty clothes with less than pretty price tags. I always thought, “Really? You want me to spend how MUCH on something that I might not even like next year??” I guess this is why I tend to drop the G’s on electronics vs clothes. However, that doesn’t mean the higher priced items can’t give you some great ideas of what to look for elsewhere OR even make (if you’re super DIY fantastic like that). And upon writing that statement, I decided I should test out my own theory for this last minute holiday skirt that caught my eye from JCrew: 
Apparently taffeta isn’t a cheap item to wrap on your bod. I did find a holiday skirt made from this said fabric for under $100, but only because it was on sale for $89 off the original price.
* Why you should consider: That being said, I still enjoy a skirt with a bit of shine for a holiday/new year’s party. Everyone always goes for the fancy crazy tops, so your fancy bottom helps offset you from the bunch in a subtle, holiday way.
* Wear with: DEF go with a more mute/matte top, but with a great shape/line to it. Like a V-neck or scoop neck sweater that grabs your curves in the right places.
* When to wear: Totally for a holiday party. Add some heels and kick butt with both your looks and your knock out Wii style.
In a back track sort of way, I have to say that this weekend I am saying that you should rekindle that fondness for Wii sports with friends and family who have yet to experience it. My dad somehow managed to pickup a Wii (with no clue how hard they are to get) a mere four days before Christmas…
My oldest sister (who is 40 mind you), forced me out of bed on Christmas morning with the tease that she SWORE she had seen a Wii-mote box in one of the gift bags. I had to call her bluff on MY 66 year old dad buying a gaming system for a family of people mostly aged in their late 30’s (I’m the surprise baby at 25). Much to my shock, she was right.
Now, I don’t own a Wii, but I’ve had access to one for the past few months through a roommate and have played my fair share since it debuted in Thanksgiving ‘06. Yet, with my older siblings, their significant others, and my parents, I felt like I had just played for the first time. We ALL had Wii elbow pretty bad the next day, but it didn’t stop us from having fun creating more family Mii’s or going head to head in any of the Sports. There was one small incident in which my oldest sister could not beat me in boxing and half jokingly/half not REAL punched me in my dominant arm. I of course, annoyed that she had just aggravated my wii elbow pain, quickly resorted to punching her back in arm. Ahh… real good ole sibling combat.
December 28th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
I know what you’re talking about. A few days before Christmas, going out to get Assassin’s Creed for me, my dad came to the gamestop as it opened, and there was a crowd of people there to get a Wii. The manager came out to announce to the crowd that they got “twice as many as they expected” and my dad considered buying one to sell on ebay. Of course, no one in my immediate family knows how to “do it ebay” so he did not buy one.
January 9th, 2008 at 12:17 am
More, please.