WIW last Sunday...a dress that's not a dress

Andrea H

This was for a manicure, a little shopping, and then taking a good friend out to dinner for his 55th birthday. Cold cloudy weather with a chance of rain derailed me from what I thought I was going to wear!

Anyway, this is a skirt from Aritzia (new), a tank from Gap (also new), jean jacket (Gap, old), BOC sandals (newish), random old silver hoops. Even though the tank and skirt are from two different stores, they are the exact EXACT same fabric, so I thought I'd pair them for a faux dress. I quite like this silhouette, long to longish tube skirt with a long, loose matching tunic top, feels very late 80s/early 90s to me.

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7 years ago

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Latest reply was from Jane

dakotacheryl

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So cute, and I love the bookending of the dark jacket and dark sandals!!

7 years ago

Helen11

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The two-piece dress -- very fab! Sounds like you had a lovely day.

7 years ago

Anonymous

This is really lovely Andrea! The whole look is elegant and cool looking. I like the alluring skirt slit and black sandals. Choice of topper is fab.

7 years ago

Anonymous

Fab look! It's amazing to me that you found two pieces from two different brands in the same fabric, and that they work so well together. And PS, your hair looks fab, too.

7 years ago

Andrea H

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Thanks, guys! About the same fabric in two different brands--I remember when Gap came out with the Gapfit line circa 2010/2011, there were a lot of rumors (which I even heard from a store manager) that the Gap things were being made at that time in the same factories as Lululemon, and of course, being priced 40% cheaper. I totally believed it after seeing things in the two stores that were obviously the exact same fabric. I'm assuming the same thing's happening here with the Aritzia skirt and Gap top. And, yeah, I paid way more for the skirt than the tank

This should probably be it's own post, but Aritzia's new to Boston and I'm not sure how I feel about it. Some of the clothes in the window are so purposely ugly/dowdy that I had to assume they were directional/normcore (and thus not for middle aged people like me) so I didn't venture in for a long time even though I walk past it frequently. Then the night I bought the skirt, the SA was fawning over the tiny, pretty, young Asian woman 4 feet from me while never once giving me a glance, never mind asking me if I needed help. When I took the skirt to the register, the young woman there asked pointedly if I wanted to try it on and when I said no (because I was on my way to an appointment and I can visualize whether a garment as simple as a tube skirt will or will not fit over my hips), double checked to make sure it wasn't final sale. Her whole attitude was "your gigantic a** isn't going to fit in this." It all left a bad taste in my mouth. Perhaps they feel like their store is not for middle aged people like me. Or perhaps I was just there on a night when the rude people were working.

7 years ago

Aubergine

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Looks really pretty, and super-comfy!

I hate store experiences like that. I think that's skirt's totally worth braving that, though!

7 years ago

Diana

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Aritzia perplexes me. I walked by the store in Boston a couple of weeks ago but didn't have time to go in - now I'm not sure I want to. I've been to one in CA and it felt extremely teenybopperish and like it was catering to the f21 crowd, but at definitely not f21 prices. I wasn't impressed with the quality either. But their website and the experiences of others here (especially the Canadians) suggest a higher degree of sophistication, but with a glam streak maybe. And I noticed the same as you about the normcore, subdued vibe of the window display at the Boston store. I still can't really quite grasp who the target market is even supposed to be.

7 years ago