princess b
07-29-99, 08:50 AM
Okay, I'm back. I know I've been a negligent moderator lately. This town, it's heat, all the workplace talk of cleaning fridges and all the unwarranted pretenses served to rob me of all motivation for frivolity.
Then something wonderful happened. July 16th. The day that we plan for and count down to every year.
The Nordstrom Annual Fall Preview Sale.
Of course, this cannot be properly attended in Sacramento. One must travel to Main Place in Orange County to the most exquisite example of Nordstrom.
After meeting up with gD, we went straight to the shoe department and Qualen. I'm sure you all know who Qualen is by now. After Qualen had escorted us to our special reserved section of the shoe department, and while he was off getting us refreshments before the shoe orgy could begin, I took a moment to look around at the rest of the shoppers.
I was horrified.
Big hair, shiny gold shoes, red purses, butt-hugger underwear under stretch pants in all colors of the spectrum. Some of this stuff is expensive too!
I know it's been said over and over, but I have never witnessed such a vulgar display as proof - money cannot buy style.
As Mammy was quoted as saying in Gone With the Wind (the greatest movie ever made)- you can put a mule in a horse's harness but that doesn't make it a horse.
I saw a lot of mules that day.
Those who work at Nordstrom have a name for them as well - creatures.
Then something wonderful happened. July 16th. The day that we plan for and count down to every year.
The Nordstrom Annual Fall Preview Sale.
Of course, this cannot be properly attended in Sacramento. One must travel to Main Place in Orange County to the most exquisite example of Nordstrom.
After meeting up with gD, we went straight to the shoe department and Qualen. I'm sure you all know who Qualen is by now. After Qualen had escorted us to our special reserved section of the shoe department, and while he was off getting us refreshments before the shoe orgy could begin, I took a moment to look around at the rest of the shoppers.
I was horrified.
Big hair, shiny gold shoes, red purses, butt-hugger underwear under stretch pants in all colors of the spectrum. Some of this stuff is expensive too!
I know it's been said over and over, but I have never witnessed such a vulgar display as proof - money cannot buy style.
As Mammy was quoted as saying in Gone With the Wind (the greatest movie ever made)- you can put a mule in a horse's harness but that doesn't make it a horse.
I saw a lot of mules that day.
Those who work at Nordstrom have a name for them as well - creatures.