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MOM spotted these for me and I love them. I’ve ordered both and I hope they will be something I can wear in New Orleans in a couple weeks!

Maybe not the most fashionable piece that will enter my wardrobe, but it’s important! Unfortunately, hockey doesn’t cater to female fans much. I can’t buy a women’s cut Capitals away jersey. I can’t buy ANY women’s team USA jersey. Instead, I ordered an XL boy’s jersey. It’s for boys of my height and measurements so it should fit better than a giant men’s jersey. Bonus is that it was also cheaper

Blog has been neglected as has my shopping. I am very low on things to wear. Today, I ordered a skirt (anthropologie) and sweater (bluefly) to help boost my diminished wardrobe.

I couldn’t resist this and I don’t care that it came from Delias and I’m in my 30s.

This cashmere sweater is the final item I grabbed from the J Crew sale (for under $30!). I like the little pin detail and that it has the kind of retro look that I really like. I’m hoping it’s more fitted than it looks in the picture - the website says it is.

I had a nice blue shirt from J Crew and, at a recent conference as I opened a bottle of red wine, it splattered all over me. Despite many washings and treatments, the shirt is wrecked. However, it was a very important part of a outfit I have. I needed to replace it on my no-spending budget. Luckily, I found this at the gap and paid for it with one of my Banana Republic reward cards. It was free!!

Got the salemail this morning. As I was scrolling through, I was considering doing a post on my renewed obsession with Diane von Furstenberg. I got a great dress on sale at Saks about a month ago, and since then I’ve been on the hunt for others. So I’m thinking about this and hunting for some shop-it-to-me-goodness, when I find this.

Diane - can I call you Diane? - what is THIS supposed to be? I’ll tell you what it is. It’s a frumpy old lady sack of a sweatery thing. Not to insult old ladies; my gramma is way more fashionable than someone who would wear this. I think the fact that you show it in an alternate view with a little fitted dress underneath makes it even worse. What self respecting, DVF-wearing woman would want to put herself in this sad thing, especially to cover up one of your brilliant dresses? It’s got no color, no shape, droopy pockets, and those slightly asymmetric buttons do nothing to make this even remotely ok.

Picture an attractive fashionista who loves your clothes. It’s Christmas morning. She is sitting by the tree, opening presents, tears off the paper, sees the “DVF” on the box, gets all excited expecting something like that dress I mentioned, and instead, she finds THIS SWEATER. What does she do? My guess, she tears up a bit, and fights off her disappointment in this design as to not offend the person who gave her the sweater and didn’t know any better.

Frankly, I am disappointed in you.

Here’s another one of those amazing Holiday bargains I found with shop it to me. Bloomingdales is doing 40% off the lowest sale price. That works out to like 75% off total - that’s a lot of percents off!

This shirt by Theory is one of the items I found in the salemail this morning, down to $72 from $200. I have been looking for this shirt for a while since I saw it on CSI:Miami. I would get  ton of wear from this. Bloomingdales - if you send it to me for free, I will even wear it IN Miami when I go there next month!

I picked a bad month to stop buying things for myself! This blouse from Anthropologie would be a great one to have.

OH man I cannot even explain how excited I am about the playoffs. Seriously. So, amid my shopping for dresses and boots, I stopped in at the Nike store and picked up this new cubs shirt for $15!