https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sat, 02 May 2026 20:42:00 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away/page/2#post-179141 Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:22:44 +0000 Angie 179141@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you for being so thoughtful, April. </p> <p>MPJ, a killer black Chanel jacket, a cream handbag, flower pin and sheath dress. </p> <p>Actually, I do have Chanel items. Here are a few of them: </p> <p><a href="http://youlookfab.com/2009/07/09/global-challenge-2-hong-kong/" rel="nofollow">http://youlookfab.com/2009/07/.....hong-kong/</a></p> <p>Lesson here is to sometimes buy with your heart and not your head. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away/page/2#post-179111 Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:29:45 +0000 Mamapicklejuice 179111@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I definitely took advantage of my youth and beauty in my 20s. As attested to by my large cc debt at the time!</p> <p>Angie -what would you have bought at Chanel? Inquiring minds want to know. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away/page/2#post-179102 Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:11:20 +0000 Beth 179102@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I still mourn for the perfect pair of Kate Spade shoes. They were black patent, high heeled Mary Janes. Just the right toe shape, the perfect strap placement and not too twee. I finally found a Joan &amp; David pair that came close but they were never perfect. Given the amount of times I would have worn them, full price would not have been too much to pay. I scoured eBay for months, but never found them.</p> <p>On a deeper note, like Claudia, I wish I had taken advantage of my youth and beauty when I could:) But then that's the wisdom of added years, right?! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away/page/2#post-179098 Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:03:49 +0000 Queen Mum 179098@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I just thought of mine...<br /> Back in October when our Nordstrom Rack first opened I tried on a pair of COH jeans that I just loved.. perfect fit, perfect wash, and priced under $100. I decided I needed to sleep on it and of course when I went back they were gone. Ever since then I haven't been able to find a decent pair of jeans there. argh! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away/page/2#post-179091 Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:56:08 +0000 April 179091@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yay, Taylor! The one that got away came back. :)</p> <p>NK, my wedding was similarly simple. My "search" for a wedding dress went like this: living alone in city, finishing senior year in college. Take a break from studying for final exams, go downtown, try on two dresses in department store, ask opinion of someone else's mother, buy one.</p> <p>I actually never regretted anything about that, though, and wouldn't do it differently if given the chance. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away/page/2#post-179016 Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:58:29 +0000 taylor 179016@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>April, thanks to this thread I resumed my search and FOUND them!!! and at a great price!!! I think i will order on Monday!!!<br /> <a href="http://www.heels.com/womens-shoes/xchange-tobacco.html?CAWELAID=282879493" rel="nofollow">http://www.heels.com/womens-sh.....=282879493</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away/page/2#post-178598 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:05:32 +0000 NK 178598@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh April, that's funny. ;)</p> <p>I don't necessarily regret it, but I do sometimes wish I'd gone the more traditional route and worn a big froufy wedding dress the day I got married. My younger sister had gotten married a few months before and my mother wasn't exactly helpful, which is part of the reason I wanted my own wedding to be easy and casual. We actually talked about eloping to Mexico, but my future MIL wouldn't hear of it! Instead, we tried to keep it as fuss free as possible.</p> <p>I wore a simple white dress and my husband wore khakis, so it was indeed casual. </p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/46852819@N04/4753481655/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/4.....753481655/</a></p> <p>But what better dress would have shown off my small waist and conceal my big rear than a fancy wedding dress?!</p> <p>Eh, I'm over it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away/page/2#post-178580 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:19:40 +0000 April 178580@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, Claudia -- ouch on all three counts. Re. #1, I suppose it's nearly always true that youth is wasted on the young. (To the younger forum members, that is not in any way an insult. It's just human nature to find some things harder to appreciate until you no longer have them.) </p> <p>And to all of you who have been so empathetic about my sad missed opportunities at Chanel: thank you from the bottom of my heart for your caring and compassion. When I put things in perspective, though -- honestly, at that stage in my life, it would have been silly for me to have been let loose in the Chanel store. I had so little understanding of how to dress myself or what to look for -- it would have been like buying feathers for a wardrobe that had no bones.</p> <p>So, onward and upward, with only minimal regret over what might have been. And Angie, I promise you, you'll be the first person I call on the day I learn that Chanel's corporate headquarters needs a school psychologist and that the perks include access to the company store... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away/page/2#post-178378 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:08:05 +0000 Claudia 178378@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>April, you start some of the most thought provoking, memory inducing threads.</p> <p>1) My BIGGEST fashion regret, the one that really got away, was not taking better advantage of my youth and beauty when it was the easiest, nearly effortless and the most powerful. </p> <p>There are so many issues related to this that stem from my upbringing. </p> <p>And then there are these:</p> <p>2) I worked at the company that published W, Women's Wear Daily and other fashion trade publications in NYC. There were always model sample sales that we were privy too -- and I mean boxes of under $10 designer items. And that's back in the 1980's when model samples were usually a size 6 and I could have worn them. I was a young married right out of college and putting my husband through graduate school and spent nothing on myself but the bare minimum and for what was considered practical. I didn't go to a single one of these employee events.</p> <p>3) I often travelled to Europe on business, to great fashion cities. I never shopped for any fashion items for myself while there. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away/page/2#post-178375 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:04:01 +0000 Anonymous 178375@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My most recent pang of regret came when Angie posted those Born gladiator sandals. I had hemmed and hawed over those exact same sandals at my local Marshall's for weeks .... at $40 ... and then they were out of my size when I finally decided to get them. I was okay with this until the fabulous Angie posted them in the YLF shop .... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away/page/2#post-178366 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:28:25 +0000 Angie 178366@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>*breathing again*. </p> <p>But still feel great pain for, April. Sickening pain. </p> <p>I feel that way each time I come back from HK. There is always something that I wish I had carried on my head because my suitcases are jampacked. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away#post-178338 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:07:43 +0000 Laura 178338@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Do we need to get Angie some smelling salts? A VERY strong cup of Earl Grey? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away#post-178323 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:07:25 +0000 April 178323@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>MGS, as someone who spends half her life on Amtrak (SO lives in another state), I can totally relate to this! Between trying to get the good price on tickets and wondering if the train will actually be on time, the whole endeavor can feel like an Olympic event.</p> <p>Taylor -- do you know the name of those sandals? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away#post-178291 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:06:41 +0000 Mac 178291@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>MgShakes - ugh - that happens with me and air tickets ALL THE FLIPPING TIME. </p> <p>I have no stories of my own and am just enjoying/ agonizing over everyone else's lost opportunities. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away#post-178277 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:20:03 +0000 anne 178277@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>mgshakes - that is annoying! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away#post-178275 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:08:45 +0000 mgshakes 178275@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yeah, impossible to approach the infinite tragedy of April's tale.</p> <p>Mine is OT, sort of, but this <em>just</em> happened and I am sooo mad at myself.</p> <p>Just now, I was buying train tickets online &amp; talking on the phone. Got wrapped up in conversation, and when I returned to buying train tickets...my session had timed out...and when I refreshed it, the tickets were $38 more expensive.</p> <p>And that $38 is coming out of my clothing budget.</p> <p>Luckily I hadn't pre-picked a particular Fab Item for July, but whatever it was, it got away, ah, alas.</p> <p>(Or I could take the bus + commuter rail x 3 + bus + commuter rail route and it might cost about the same as that original ticket... ): </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away#post-178168 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:46:36 +0000 taylor 178168@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Now that I think about It, last year I bought a pair of pewter max studio pewter ankle strap heeled sandals that they also had in a tobacco....I didn't buy them , but I have been cruising the Internet ever since trying to find them. I am bummed that I didn't duplicate right then and there because EVERYONE loves those shoes when I wear them!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away#post-178151 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:01:05 +0000 Maya 178151@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>When I want something, I find a way. Some may say I have no willpower, but I actually think I have a lot of willpower...to get what I want :)</p> <p>Did that revive you Angie? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away#post-178146 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:51:43 +0000 Angie 178146@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>*still barely gasping for air* </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away#post-178140 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:13:26 +0000 April 178140@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Someone please revive Angie! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away#post-178086 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:08:36 +0000 Kristine 178086@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Weird. I just found the tortoise shoes online and realized I own them, only in silver! And they're not that great. So maybe I can put that one to rest. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away#post-178083 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:04:20 +0000 Kristine 178083@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That's awful April!!</p> <p>Mine isn't a huge one, but a year ago I fell in love with these tortoise shell peeptoe pumps. It was around that time that my feet started really bothering me and I swore off heels. My feet have been fine lately and I'm sick of all of my flats. I want a pair of peeptoes for pencil skirts and I keep thinking of that pair. I was actually daydreaming about them this morning, wondering if they still have them for sale... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away#post-178066 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:04:10 +0000 biscuitsmom 178066@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Lynne, how sweet is that? Makes you believe in Fate.... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away#post-178040 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:32:00 +0000 Lynne 178040@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Slightly OT: I walked onto a bus and made eyecontact with a young man sitting on his own.... I KNEW I was meant to sit there... BUT I could see someone I knew further along and I chickened out. The young mans face DROPPED when I walked by..stay with me here...I met him at a party a few days later, he was a housemate of a colleague. That was 1989, and yes we're still together. Sorry, I said it was OT.... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away#post-178032 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:00:36 +0000 Michelle 178032@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>April...just wow! *hugs* That's...painful!<br /> Mine is fairly recent. A few months ago I was browsing through a shoe store and came across a cobalt blue bag in *the* most gorgeous, soft leather. It had a gold chain strap that could either lengthen out all the way for a cross-body look or double up into a conventional shoulder strap. Right next to it was a black leather quilted bag with similar chain handle detailing. I bought the black. At $125 I figured I'd get the most use out of it. In that sense I have...I wore it every day for at least a month before summer weather hit, and I don't regret that purchase. But I haven't stopped thinking about the cobalt blue one ever since, particularly this week when I wore a few outfits that practically screamed out for its presence. And of course when I called the store back (and even checked with other locations), it was nowhere to be found. Some locations had never even seen it, which makes me think it was a fairly limited edition piece that only went to some of the busier locations. </p> <p>I comfort myself with things like "it was probably too small for you anyway." It's working about as well as you think. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away#post-178026 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:46:25 +0000 jerseyjan 178026@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Or course, you asked for lost fashion buys, but I have to chime in with this. When we were younger, just starting business, buying *reasonably priced* furniture to re-sell, the importer in NY told us to buy the nice French imported furniture instead. We didn't. That was in 1979 or so. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away#post-178006 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:36:46 +0000 Laura 178006@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>April, I am sitting here with my lunch and literally cannot eat it because of how nauseous I feel for you. That one is downright painful! OUCH. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away#post-177985 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:13:33 +0000 taylor 177985@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>UGH....April, tragic!!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away#post-177981 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:08:21 +0000 Angie 177981@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>*can't breath" </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/what-was-your-biggest-fashion-one-that-got-away#post-177919 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:13:06 +0000 Lisa 177919@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I was in San Francisco on a work trip with carry on luggage only. All the stores had their big sidewalk sales at the time and one store had a pair of KILLER Manalo Blanick shoes on sale, marked way down to under $100. I still think about those shoes.</p> <p>I also bought a green Coach bag on Ebay a few years back. It was green and white and very cute. But it would not fit on the shoulder so I gave it to a friend. She no longer has it anymore and I realize now that I rarely wear my bag on my shoulder anyway. I wish I had kept it and never see that style now. </p>