https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:11:22 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away/page/2#post-1201314 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 20:23:47 +0000 gryffin 1201314@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Isabel - that's do sad. So close, and you had no idea you would not be able to order it. I hope you find another beautiful trench soon!!<br /> MuseumGal - who knew fish sauce could be do dangerous? Gosh , that stuff must be potent. Blue brocade sounds so stunning. Being a jacket girl, that really hurts. Hope you find another gorgeous blazer!! Your oxfords sound amazing. It such a good time to shop oxfords perhaps something similar will come along. Fingers crossed for you!!<br /> April - I remember your post when the dress resurfaced. Gorgeous dress - I can see why it haunts you. So sorry it did not work out. But eBay is a treasure trove, I'm still hoping another in the right size surfaces for you. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away/page/2#post-1201277 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 20:05:33 +0000 rachylou 1201277@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ohmigosh, I missed that about Angie's wedding dress. I imagine the horror, Angie! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away/page/2#post-1201065 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:39:49 +0000 April 1201065@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, Angie. &nbsp;I'm so sorry that happened. &nbsp;:( &nbsp; I'm not generally sentimental about clothing but I know I'm in the minority and you must have been so upset. &nbsp;</p> <p>Is there any consolation in the idea that a bride with very little means was probably overjoyed to find something so magnificent? &nbsp;</p> <p>My own&nbsp;was probably the Magaschoni dress that Una and I were both ogling at Searle a few years ago. &nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/this-dress-is-killing-me">http://youlookfab.com/welookfa.....killing-me</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;I actually ordered it, but got a note the next day saying it was gone in every size. &nbsp;</p> <p>Then it resurfaced on eBay recently in a deep midnight blue colorway, but in a bigger size than I needed, and I bought it just in case it could be tailored down. &nbsp;But it couldn't and I sent it back. &nbsp;</p> <p>I wish I had bought it at the time, without hesitating so long that it was gone,&nbsp;even though I didn't "need" it. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away/page/2#post-1200932 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:39:45 +0000 MuseumGal 1200932@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I still miss two perfect items from the 80s that I loved to death.&nbsp; The first was a blue brocade blazer that made me feel like a million bucks.&nbsp; It had a violent encounter with a bottle of nuoc mam (Vietnamese fish sauce) and multiple professional cleaners could not get the smell out.&nbsp; The second was the perfect pair of white wingtip oxfords.&nbsp; I wore those every day for at least three years until they literally fell apart on my feet.&nbsp; Since oxfords have made such a comeback the last few years I've kept my eyes open for a similar pair, but nothing has hit the right spot yet. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away/page/2#post-1200902 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:10:08 +0000 Isabel 1200902@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The only thing that made my THE one impractical was the color.....it happened 1.5 years ago. I had wanted a deep red, almost raspberry trench forever. I tried many over the years and never found a color that I liked. Then while at shoptoberfest, with the ladies, I found it at Banana Republic ! It was perfect. I left it because I did not want to pack it. When I got home 3 days later, it was sold out on line and I found out it was a limited edition that only stores in big cities got. I was crestfallen. </p> <p>Oh Una, I remember that loss. : ( </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200848 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:59:45 +0000 biscuitsmom 1200848@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Una, could it have been made by Alberto Makali? He does a lot of unusual items and he's been making trenches for a long time. SO sorry to read of all the losses here! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200830 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:55:38 +0000 gryffin 1200830@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Astrid- that is so sad.&nbsp; Gorgeous dress and unusual.&nbsp; Just love it's graceful, elegant lines and soft muted color.&nbsp; Hasty decisions.&nbsp; I don't remember who posted the tread have you ever bought, returned and rebought.&nbsp; I've done that and the worst is when you had it and can't get it back.&nbsp; So sorry.&nbsp; Another tough lesson learned.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200821 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:25:59 +0000 Astrid 1200821@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My mum managed to snap up the much demanded Stella McCartney for H&amp;M dress during her lunch break in 2005. It was a lot of money for me as a schoolgirl, but I wanted it the moment I saw it. Forget the picture, it looked much better IRL. I put it on, looked great in it, loved it. I returned it because of some very minor fit issues which would have been easy to fix (I know that now). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200806 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:47:01 +0000 gryffin 1200806@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Una - that would be so upsetting.&nbsp; People are awful taking things that aren't theirs.&nbsp; How they can enjoy those things is a total mystery to me.&nbsp; So sorry your lost your beautiful coat.&nbsp; It always seems to be the most precious things.&nbsp; Why don't we ever lose stuff we don't like. I just never works that way does it?<br />Anne - that is the pits.&nbsp; I used to do things like that.&nbsp; I didn't feel worth of really nice things.&nbsp; Now I'd rather have what I really love.&nbsp; If that means having less of it, all the better.&nbsp; The okay stuff is just clutter anyway.&nbsp; But sometimes it's hard to feel you "deserve" something you really want when it's more expensive that what&nbsp;you really "need."&nbsp; &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200609 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:28:34 +0000 anne 1200609@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes Gryffin - the more expensive dress WASN"T out of my range or anything - should have just gone for it! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200597 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:17:51 +0000 catgirl 1200597@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Can we talk about the one that got lost?&nbsp; My beautiful pewter metallic RATE crinkled trench coat, that I left in a restaurant and never got back 3 years ago?&nbsp; Still weeping.&nbsp; I wish I could remember the brand.&nbsp; It was a two name brand of a guy, like Vince Camuto, but I want to say it was Alfani or Alfred.&nbsp; It wasn't even that expensive but it was SO ME. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200591 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:15:03 +0000 gryffin 1200591@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rachylou- she who hesitates is lost. In the famous words of my mom, "when in doubt, buy!!" Bummer about the overalls. I have major love for that look!! Hope you'll find something just as wonderful!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200584 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:11:30 +0000 rachylou 1200584@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Those dratted H&amp;M overalls. I hemmed and hawed for just a day and then they were all sold out! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200580 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:08:54 +0000 gryffin 1200580@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Echo - ouch!! I've done that too. So sad. Being good does not always make us happy. That was a really hard lesson but sounds like you won't let it happen again. Fingers crossed for a reissue!! Hey, you never know!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200565 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 01:55:54 +0000 Echo 1200565@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>There was a Coach 65th anniversary bag that was just perfect, and I even found it at outlet. And bought it. And then I decided that it was a frivolous purchase and took it back. I have regretted it ever since. It was just SUCH a classic bag, and the colour was perfect. Practicality be damned! When I love something now, I buy it and KEEP it! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200559 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 01:53:16 +0000 gryffin 1200559@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Anne - being virtuous, cost conscious, thrifty is a good thing but to be honest it's never brought me happiness. I always buy within my means but I have been guilty of being penny wise and pound foolish too. That must have been really upsetting to have that dress rip. I am sure we've all had wardrobe malfunctions. Oy, shudder. Bad memories!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200553 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 01:48:22 +0000 columbine(erin) 1200553@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I cannot believe that happened to your wedding dress, Angie! So very sad!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200535 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 01:36:35 +0000 anne 1200535@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>When my parents and I were shopping for a dress for me to wear to my high school graduation and Dinner Dance we found the most perfect LBD. Fitted and flattered to me to perfection! It was $90 which was about par for the course at that date. But we also found one for sale at $55 and ever mindful of costs I went for the cheaper one which was adequate, but not as good.</p> <p>Mind you, given that I put on a few pounds the next year, starting at uni, I probably wouldn't have been able to fit into it very long. The cheaper dress ignobly ripped up the back seam while I was wearing it to an 18th party! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200518 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 01:18:41 +0000 gryffin 1200518@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ambergreen - I think having things stolen is really traumatic. It made me feel very vulnerable. I think it was the first time I really understood the world was not a safe place. Sad. But I do hope we can let those things go. In an unsafe world, it's even more important to take joy in the now!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200502 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 01:08:57 +0000 Suzanne (ambergreen) 1200502@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for the wishes, gryffin. Yes...you may be right, I may've had particularly bad luck in that area. 'Course, Angie's is...well, as Mo says, a biggie? And sorry to hear about your suit (and everything else)! I just can't believe people sometimes. </p> <p>But now that I've vented, maybe I can move on to greener clothing pastures. I might just have to take a zen attitude about it all. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200496 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 01:05:52 +0000 gryffin 1200496@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Angie - that is so upsetting!!! Speechless!! We've all done it but not with something so precious. I know it's cold consultation but you must have gorgeous pictures to remember it by. But so sad!! Hugs. You never really let go of that one. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200493 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 01:03:01 +0000 Mo 1200493@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow Angie - that's a biggie. &nbsp;:( </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200490 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 01:02:19 +0000 gryffin 1200490@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ambergreen - wow, you've had the most tragic luck with clothing. So very, very sorry. So many treasures taken from you so unfairly. I had my apt robbed and they took my interview suit. I'd had the skirt altered 3 times and it was perfect, and that was just one item. I really wish you good luck and lots of new treasures with much time to enjoy them!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200489 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 01:01:47 +0000 Angie 1200489@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My wedding dress was accidentally passed along to the Salvation Army. By me. Still sobbing.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200480 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:53:18 +0000 Suzanne (ambergreen) 1200480@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm sure if I think about it I'll remember a couple, but I had more Suz-style tragedies...items stolen, misplaced, or ruined by others. And more often than not, only after a few wearings, too. </p> <ul> <li>a once-worn, very cool tee from my first favorite vintage store (not a vintage tee, it had the shop's name in a pink "Japan" sun...pink was their color). Mom left it at the laundromat.</li> <li>my favorite mom-me-down pintucks-and-lace-front tuxedo blouse (same laundromat casualty).</li> <li>a perfect gray wool V-neck sweater dress (I'd wear it today if I still had it). I believe this was stolen by a friend of a roommate's.</li> <li>a pair of yellow-and-black ticking-stripe skinnies from Renaissance in New York. Stolen from a dryer at college.</li> <li>a Henri Bendel cotton kimono/yukata robe with yellow cabbage roses (probably stolen by a boyfriend's brother's girlfriend)</li> <li>perfectly-fitting Calvin Klein gray skinny jeans (sister burned them with an iron, leaving a nice, iron-shaped print. She would always take my clothes without ever asking). First pair of jeans I paid $50 for.</li> <li>a pair of Perry Ellis black velvet jeans that somehow got into storage at my grandmother's and mysteriously disappeared</li> <li>a black-and-turquoise tiered skirt from India that suffered the same fate</li> </ul> <p>These were all in the 80s. In the 70s, there was that brand-new leather trench coat with fur cuffs that my mom had got me that burned up in a fire. Only a cuff was left. I had never had a chance to wear it even once. </p> <p>As you can tell, my memories of each of these things is very vivid. I might need some kind of counselor for my CPTSD. :P</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200472 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:37:40 +0000 gryffin 1200472@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Mo - that Pucci dress is very, very beautiful and special. I am beginning to really think that having that truly perfect item that makes your heart sing (if you can responsibly afford it with proper budgeting and have a working wardrobe) may be better than always making the practical choice. My 11's really make me happy!! I hope there will be another extraordinary maxi and this time you'll say yes!<br /> Donna - I think we had the same mom!! At least they were cut from the same cloth. I had 4 outfits for 5 days of the week and the did not mix and match. I am convinced this is why I am so lenient in letting my son pick the clothes he wants and making sure he has more than enough. Bad memories of those ugly practical things. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200461 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:10:14 +0000 DonnaF 1200461@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>At the moment, I can't think of any perfect items that got away, but even after close to 50 years, I still remember those ugly but *practical* items my parents made me wear.&nbsp; I'm sure there must have been more attractive yet affordable items out there. . .I sure hope DD won't say the same thing to me years from now!&nbsp; But in those days, you weren't allowed to question your parents.&nbsp; Well, actually my elderly mom is still of that opinion. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200458 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:07:13 +0000 Mo 1200458@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh yes, the Emilio Pucci silk dress I thought was too frivolous a use of 3 month's clothing budget. &nbsp;Sigh. &nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/testing-yay-or-nay-feature">http://youlookfab.com/welookfa.....ay-feature</a><br />And more recently, a not that expensive, but somehow also seemingly frivolous maxi I did not buy&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://wesc.com/product/37733">http://wesc.com/product/37733</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200454 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:02:21 +0000 gryffin 1200454@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Suz - OMG you had the little lord fauntleroy outfit that we all wanted!!&nbsp; You were so blessed and that's awful it was stolen!!&nbsp; I have this thing about coatrooms.&nbsp; I never leave my coat.&nbsp; I'm the nut lugging everything but I'm okay with that.&nbsp; So, so sad!!&nbsp; I am so glad you got to enjoy it once but gosh, no words!!&nbsp; I would mourn too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/spin-off--the-one-that-got-away#post-1200431 Thu, 20 Mar 2014 23:34:34 +0000 gryffin 1200431@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Columbine - ouch!!&nbsp; That would have been such a great workhorse!!&nbsp; I do hope one comes along but tough lesson to learn.&nbsp; The simple is sometimes harder to find than the exquisite!!<br />rabbit - wow, that coat sounds amazing.&nbsp; I have a major thing for period clothing, steampunk, do not let me loose at the renaissance festival when the high end custom vendors are there.&nbsp; I can see why it haunts you, just the thought of it is thrilling!&nbsp; Hoping something else exquisite comes your way!!<br />Runcarla- that is a hurt me if I ever heard one.&nbsp; That crazy impossible piece and that it was fantastic with your coloring, wow, painful.&nbsp; I guess it's also a truism that if you have the piece for something somehow the ocassion will arise for it.&nbsp; Kind of like a riff on "when the student is ready...."&nbsp; And I totally agree, just having something beautiful is a delight in it's own right.&nbsp; I collect antiques and it's really true "a thing of beauty is a joy forever!" </p>