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Thursday, June 17, 2010

The Top Shop Dress

Looking into my closet is somewhat of a challenge now with a kitten underfoot, trying to get in at any given opportunity. She managed to sneak in today while we were at work and chewed up the plastic dry cleaning wrap I keep to cover my whites and delicate dresses. (Yes I am that careful with my clothes) *sigh* Oh kitty please don't go into the closet. Anyway, while getting dressed I just sort of stuck my arm in and pulled out this dress, so that I didn't have to have the wardrobe door open any longer than necessary.

And, it worked out pretty well.
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I got this dress years ago, from the Kate Moss for TopShop Collection. I love it - despite the fact that it is polyester (it is the only 100% poly thing I own). I'm pretty much anti-polyester. The stuff makes me itch, and it is terrible to wear in warm weather.

But for this dress, and it's lovely print...I forgave the polyester.

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The jacket is Levis, the shoes are vintage, and the wood heart necklace was a souvenier gift from Mario, from when we visited the Redwood National Park. It is made from redwood resin/bark- from fallen pieces of the trees.

5 comments:

  1. Oh no kitten!
    As long as she doesn't chew the clothes, right?

    We had a strange kitty visitor today. Just showed up in the yard this morning, and I went over and said hello, and it followed me back to the porch, and didn't leave. At 10 pm I still heard it meowing. It looked taken care of, but didn't seem to want to go home. Chloe was in a state all day.

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  2. Lovely dress!

    I don't like polyester too, but when I find a vintage dress or blouse with a lovely print, it's often made of poly and I can't resist.

    *Ena*

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  3. the dress is so pretty! gosh I wish we had a Topshop closer...I visited one in London last yr and they had the barbara hulanicki stuff, it was so pretty, but so expensive.

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  4. It's such a pretty dress! In thrift stores i'm always drawn to the slightly weird polyester dress rack and i have to try hard not to buy them, as i never end up wearing them!

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  5. Thank you all : )

    Eli- I bought this dress in London, I do wish there was a west coast topshop but NYC gets all the shops. This dress was a splurge but a lot less tha the other kate moss stuffs :)

    Lyddie-poor chloe! I can't wait until we get a puppy , but she or he will have to learn to like cats.

    Ena and Kathy- it is hard. I have the worst time at thrift shops because so many poly dresses have amazing prints. I usually get them if they are a blend of poly and cotton. but that is rare it seems.

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