What to Buy on Vacation? How About Everything.
A friend once mentioned something in passing about wearing her “vacation dress.” I figured she meant a dress that she had bought FOR vacation: Something cute yet comfy, that would, in fashion-mag parlance, “make the transition from day to evening.” But no. She was talking about a dress she had bought ON vacation. Something she would probably not have purchased had she not been rested, relaxed, and in a shopping mood.
You Can Tell Me: Share Your Favorite Vacation Purchase
This little exchange popped into my head yesterday, since I happen to be on vacation. And you know you’re on vacation in a New England beach town when you go a-browsing in a shop you would give little more than a haughty sniff to back home and fall in love with absolutely everything in it. Flowered skirts. Earrings with smiling whales.
Even non-clothes: A red ceramic butter dish with white polka dots? Love! Birdhouses made of wine corks? Sure–years of trauma wrought by my viewing of The Birds— totally a thing of the past. Even placards with such inspirational quotes as “One day can bend your life” (though not surprisingly I read that as “A single day can END your life” which makes more sense).
All this to say I am on vacation and a little antsy to treat myself to something.
Tell me about a piece of clothing you bought on vacation that you probably would never have bought at any other time.
I bought a Moroccon kimono-like robe (referred to everyone but me as a ‘man dress’) that I don’t even know if I’ll ever wear. Also, there is no way I can figure out why I thought it was quite a normal purchase.
LOL, Hilarious! Thanks so much for sharing…
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