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Sometimes A Dress Is Meant To Land In My Wardrobe

dress: French Connection • crossbody: Kate Spade • heels: Boo • glasses: Kinto

I like to celebrate new beginnings with new dresses. When the August sunshine faded by and the September rain clouds came, I started a quest to find the perfect dress to wear on my first day at uni. Not that anyone would notice my new dress, considering the huge mass of fresh students that would be drumming inside the auditorium, but I still wanted to experience that special feeling of a back-to-school outfit. I know exactly the place to shop those kind of dresses, and fell in love with this perfect purple dress by French Connection only moments after walking into the store. The price tag made my head spin, and knowing that I was leaving for London only a few days later I decided to fulfill my quest overseas. I eventually went with the dress that I’ve introduced to you as my farming dress.

Then came boxing day. I am an avid believer of the statement “if your size is out, than it wasn’t meant to be”. It’s a psychological defense system, you could say, to not have to feel sad about a lost sale. I only realized the sales were on late in the afternoon of Boxing day, and the dress was gone. “Probably best”, I said to myself. A few days later I wanted to show the dress to a friend over Facebook and she noticed they had restocked and that my size was available. Even though it was a Holiday that day, the dress was processed the same evening and well on it’s way to Belgium the next morning. I had a small panic when I noticed they were shipping with a company I had nothing but bad experiences with, but this time everything went well (besides the part where the deliveryman was a liiiiittle scared of our Jack Russel barking behind a closed door). 

The dress might not have become the symbol of my start at uni, but it eventually became the first item of clothing I bought in the new year. So after all, it still states a new beginning.

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Comments

  5. Kristian Olson says

    WOW. That dress is gorgeous on you. It fits you perfectly, is a color that makes a statement but isn’t obnoxious and is very, well, grown up (well, you always have a classic style but still!)

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  9. Sara Strauss says

    This dress is so lovely on you!! The color is amazing! I always think the same thing: that if it’s not in my size it was meant to be! Makes me feel a little better somehow! 🙂
    ~Sara

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  21. Linn says

    What a eads terrible myth that redheads don’t look good in purple! You look stunning. And as a redhead I recently bought myself some pink&purple things. Can’t wait to change my wardrobe a little bit.

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  27. Jessica says

    isn’t it great when you love an item of clothing and even when you pass it up initially it still finds its way into your wardrobe in the end! it’s definitely like it’s meant to be, and if you love the dress that much then it’s worth the price tag.

    little henry lee

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    • Nikki | The Ginger Diaries says

      Definitely. I was SO happy when I saw that it was back in stock. It was marked down to £55 from £110, but FC is a good brand and their dresses always fit perfectly so I thought it was worth the small splurge ^^ xo

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  31. Maru | Fashiony Fab says

    And it looks so great on you! I totally share that idea that if it’s not available in your size then it was not meant for you. I have experienced it the other way around, when the only size left is yours, then it was meant to be! 🙂

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  34. Rachel G says

    I love the story of how you finally came into possession of this dress. And I also buy new clothes for symbolic occasions–and I wore the exact same outfit on my first and last day of college. I tend think about clothes a lot, I guess.

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