Tis the Season

So as we all know, Xmas is just around the corner and I've spent way too much. On presents, you may ask. No, unfortunately not. Well okay, maybe some has been spent on gifts but its a small percentage. Most of the stuff has been for me. And most of the stuff for me has been in the way of dresses.

I LOVE dresses. In fact, most of the things I wear these days are dresses. Its funny, when I go into a shop I find myself gravitating more towards (you got it) dresses, and only giving passing attention to the tops and skirts. I still adore full billowing skirts but as I have mentioned, its hard to get a more slick and polished look when you're wearing a gorgeously full skirt. But, Not a pencil skirt in sight.

And speaking of pencils skirts, I was in a shop a few weeks back. I asked one of the assistents if they had any pencil skirts in and "quelle horreur" (or however you spell it), she asked me' what is a pencil skirt'. Shocking! Okay, so maybe its not something everyone will know, but come on. You work in a clothes shop, you had bloody well better know your clothes. As it was, she took my description of 'fitted' and 'can be worn to work' and led me to some crotch-length minis. Admittedly, those minis were gorgeous but I've certainly never heard of them passing as pencil skirts or anything remotely smart before. Makes me wonder what other 'job' this shop assistant must have, wearing skirts that short. Then again, I dare not speculate.

But back to dresses, I do have lots. I was just thinking this morning I really should go easy on the buying. As it is, I'm trying to decide what to being with me to Malaysia, keeping in mind I plan on shopping there as well. Whatever it is, I'm going to stand out a lot there. And at this point I don't care. I suppose so long as I don't wear anything slashed down to here and up to there its all good.

I will try not to buy too much clothes back there. Can't say the same for shoes though. I've already looked at the website of my fave shoe shop and there's maybe 4 pairs or so that I really like. Otherwise, I plan on eating my fill of food. Maybe even more than my fill. Which I really can't afford. *sigh*