Belted Shirtdress

striped sleeveless shirt dress with red belt, zac posen bag

When: May 7 // Weather: warm & cloudy // Real life: work

striped sleeveless shirt dress with red belt, zac posen bag

striped sleeveless shirt dress with red belt, zac posen bag

striped sleeveless shirt dress with red belt, zac posen bag

striped sleeveless shirt dress with red belt, zac posen bag

striped sleeveless shirt dress with red belt, zac posen bag

Do you ever come across cashiers that seem like they hate you? Like, not just that they’re not super cheerful, but they look at you as if you just walked up and called them a cotton-headed ninnymuggins or something equally horrendous. I mean, I know I’m not the most likeable person (the dry humor’s not for everyone), but even I can’t offend someone within 15 seconds of meeting them.

I met one of those surly cashiers when I was buying this belt at Ann Taylor. She was quite annoyed that I didn’t want to purchase the one in the store that had a defect. Then I met another one at the grocery story last weekend. I’m not exaggerating when I say she threw my food in the bag. Good think I wasn’t buying eggs!

Anyway, I never really tattle or complain about grumpy cashiers, because those are pretty thankless jobs with low pay and you’re on your feet all day. There are plenty of reasons to be grumpy – maybe someone just told them about climate change. But sometimes I just can’t help but wonder if I’m putting out a bad vibe (or smell). You guys would tell me, right??

Dress (only $20!) // Belt (under $15) // Bag // similar Shoes

Everything is Rent

Draper James gingham dress, gingham midi dress, Rent the Runway unlimited

When: a couple weeks ago // Weather: springy // Real life: work

A few weeks ago, I saw Rent the Runway was doing a promo discount on their unlimited subscription, and I gave it a shot. I’m a month in and I think I might be a convert. I get to sport all kinds of nice crap that I otherwise wouldn’t bother buying because the cost per wear would be way too high. Like this dress – it retails for $375 and as someone who doesn’t really repeat outfits, I wouldn’t get my money’s worth because there aren’t a lot of ways to wear it. And that fabulously fun Zac Posen bag you saw me wear a couple times last week? Also rented. In my opinion, it’s a little too “out there” to be worth investing in long term.

The RTR subscription isn’t super cheap either, but I’m learning some good tricks for making the most of that $159/month (like downloading the app and keeping a running list of “hearts” so you can quickly pick your next items and get them in the mail). In theory, an RTR Unlimited subscription should help me save money by shopping less, but…we’ll see if that actually happens. 😉

The RTR Unlimited promo is still going on, by the way. If you want to give it a try, click here.

Dress (actually on sale here, so not too bad!) // similar Bag // similar Shoes