What's up with all the expensive Polyester rant!
jterrilynn
9 years ago
Well it's that time of year again where we will all be looking for holiday festivity dresses or outfits. But oh the frustration!!! So, I have been browsing through the online discount racks like Gilt and others and came across this dress, it's a Chloe for $2,000 and it's 100% polyester. What??? Polyester for $2,000!? I cannot believe the prices on some of these dresses for polyester. Actually I don't hate polyester for all occasions as a poly blend makes a good travel outfit but still...sheesh! I look every day and have only bought one thing and that's a silk sheath dress. Now that I am older I just don't look good in cheap fabrics.
Is it me?
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Comments (22)Ive found a couple things that help, Jennifer, but still havenÂt found any way to keep them from pooping all over my front lawn! I probably shouldnÂt even be posting here, because this is a BIG TIME pet peeve of mine! I did a LONG post on a thread a few years ago, and I searched for it, but canÂt find it. IÂm not even sure it was on RMG. I think it might have been on the Perennials Forum when I was still posting there, but it was a long thread with (sometimes vicious) rants from both people who have a problem with "other peopleÂs" cats, and the "other people" who think they have a right to let their cats roam far and wide! IÂm one of the first of those two! I believe people who have cats should be required to control them and clean up after them the same way people who have dogs are required to do! IÂd say more-----but IÂm going to try to be civil!!! But I truly donÂt understand why cats should be exempt from "owner responsibility!" The neighbors right next to me, with whom I get along very well, have one indoor kitty and one outdoor one. Every now and then the indoor one escapes and has apparently taken a liking to hiding under my back deckÂwhich is a total maze of scrap lumber! Whenever it happens they come right over to get him, and I donÂt have any problem at all with that, tho I donÂt have a clue what theyÂd do if the cat ever decided it didnÂt want to come back out! ThereÂs no way in the world they could crawl under to get it! (I have warned them that I occasionally put D-con under there to be sure thereÂs not mice living under there!) And then thereÂs their outdoor kitty who roams everywhere! I think thatÂs the one who does most of the pooping in my front yard, tho I have seen a couple other ones roaming at times. I get SO tired of having to pick up "other peopleÂs" poop! I picked up enough of my own poop when I had a dog! If I donÂt pick it up, it gets all over my lawn mower wheelsÂand my feetÂwhen I cut the grass! The first full summer I lived here it was even worse! It took me a year to figure out that the tiny pond thatÂs in my front yard was the nighttime watering hole for cats from far and wide! Once I figured that out, I covered it with chicken wire, and that got rid of a few of them! Looks great!!! Then, last spring, the neighbor kids on the other side decided the bare soil under the pine in my front yard was a great sand box! Once they started digging in it and loosened up the soil, the catsÂlots of catsÂdecided it was their own private litter box. Big mounds of dirt and sh** were building up under it. Several times I cleaned up several grocery bags of dirt and sh**! I was absolutely determined I was not going to keep doing that all summer, so I first tried dumping bottles of cayenne pepper on the soil surface after I had cleaned it up. I got the cheap kind you can get for 50 cents a bottle at dollar stores. The surface of the soil was completely red a few times, and it worked for a few days, but not for long! It would blow or wash away, and theyÂd be back! At that point, and madder than ever, I decided to go back to something I had used in the pastÂas Jennifer has already mentioned! If you keep the soil wet, the cats will stay away. They want nice dry "litter" to dig in! I set a little sprinkler under the tree, and ran it long enough to wet the top couple inches whenever it dried out. That kept both the cats and the kids out of there! Once the surface had hardened enough again, I was able to leave it dry out, and the cats went back to using the grass! I never have found a way to keep them off of the grass! IÂve dumped pepper on the places where theyÂve pooped, but they just move to a different spot. I wonder if you can buy cayenne by the half-yard!!! At one point I was considering a nuclear weapon, but I was afraid that any cats not destroyed in the initial blast might survive the radiation, mutate, and begin procreating exponentially! Seriously, from things I've found other people reporting online, I do believe a motion detector sprinkler would work. IÂve considered it, but have never gotten around to getting oneÂand they need to be left connected to a charged water line all the timeÂwhich I hate to do when IÂm out of town, just in case anything ever broke! A couple times when I happened to look out the window (usually after dark) and see a cat on the front lawn, I ran down in the basement and turned the sprinkler system on for a few seconds! By the time I came back up and looked again, the cat was GONE! This year I donÂt even have the sprinkler system turned on yet! 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9 years agoCamlan & Fun, oh I know about the cotton! I have been trying to find cotton sleep wear that doesnâÂÂt look like a granny suit for a few years now with no luck. Since I hate clothes shopping I think IâÂÂll stick with the black silk v neck sleeveless sheath dress that I bought and add stuff to make it look different. I normally canâÂÂt buy dresses without altering because IâÂÂm bigger on the top and smaller on the bottom so nothing fits right. The dress hasnâÂÂt arrived yet so hopefully itâÂÂs as flowy as it looked online because I'm big on comfort. IâÂÂm in Florida and the polyester heat trap does not work at all in this climate. Just the scarves or covers to change the look are over $300 and IâÂÂm not doing that either but I know I can find something similar for less.
Think anyone will notice if I change the look of the same dress with something like this (but cheaper)? The dress I bought looks like this but without the sheer bit at bottom.
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I hit Etsy after all as I donâÂÂt have time to travel around to a zillion places to find what I want. Etsy has lots of great stuff there in a reasonable price range. I saw some really beautiful hand painted scarves but most were bigger than I wanted (the one on the right I liked but too big). I ended up buying the one on the upper left as I had a cool vintage pin I could wear with it and some nude heels I already have. Hopefully I wonâÂÂt look too Auntie Mameâ¦Darling! I also bought the plain silk/chiffon scarf on bottom left and plan to wear it flowing over one shoulder with a cool pin (havenâÂÂt decided which yet) and black heels that I already have. Think IâÂÂll squeeze one more outfit out of this black dress with something a bit more colorful or texture-y and colored heels. Shoes first of course as we all know how elusive the 2â heel is.
camlan
9 years agojterrilynn
9 years agocamlan
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9 years agoThank you Camlan! I like those shoes. However, I think IâÂÂm going to go blue next. This is my inspiration but the Emilio Pucci scarf and Stuart Weitzman shoes (with the perfect 2â heel) are not in my budget so IâÂÂll be looking for something close. Or, I just discovered a sight that sells used Emilio (love) scarves for $200 less, itâÂÂs called TheRealReal authenticated luxury consignment online. Sadly I built my blue color scheme around one of my favorite blue vintage brooches but when I got it out a stone was missing so IâÂÂll have to replace that. Vintage pins are sort of my trademark. I may end up splurging on the shoes because they are a classic cut that I could wear for a long time. It will be hard to push buy though so that will only happen as a last resort.
Susan Bell
8 years ago
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