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54 replies

Thingmcthingyface · 26/08/2016 10:03

First world problem alert....

Going to a veh veh fancy wedding this weekend. I am going to be a very ordinary person at this event, to which some major celebs turn out to also be going, gulp so I need to scrub up a bit. Btw this is not my usual weekend mostly I am covered in baby sick and leaky boobs

I spotted Reiss' Crystal skirt for £120 which would be a record spend for me on any item of clothing EVER including shoes or bags or coats. I have a hard wearing boring functional ugly wardrobe usually, due to having a physical day job and being an 8/10 on the clumsy scale.

This Reiss jobby is tewwibly nice and I look like a real lady in it. And i can get DH to buy it for me as birthday present also false economy really since it's all the same pot at the end of the day. So good so far. The problem is

  1. It's palest green
  2. It's tuille

I once owned a pale green thing before, 'twas lovely, and then there was some tomato sauce and that was that. Lasted a week I'd say.

I am also someone who navigates round obsticals by gently not so gently bumping into them. I have owned nice knits before and then there has been snagging on doorways, benches, trees, bracelets and they usually last about a week.

So I feel that I might as well make a skirt out of fivers and sit in the rain... But it's oh so so pretty and I reaaaallly like it... Asos have some vastly cheaper looking versions of the same idea but they aren't nearly as nice...sort of make me look like a child ballerina.

AIBU as a clumsy as fuck tomato sauce eating person with not a single nice place to wear nice things to ever apart from this weekend to spend one weeks maternity pay on a SKIRT? Or is Reiss BU for making something so pretty and delicate and charging a bloomin fortune for it?

Oh and I have no time to think of anything else so it's the Reiss skirt or something horrid from the back of the closet...

OP posts:
citybushisland · 26/08/2016 18:12

It's gorgeous, you NEED to wear it, it would be a TRAVESTY not to wear it, esp as it is giving you so much joy even before you've worn it

missbishi · 26/08/2016 18:15

Keep the skirt and then bung it on eBay as soon as the Duchess appears in the Daily Mail wearing her latest Reiss dress.

SweetChickadee · 26/08/2016 18:22

Keep the skirt

Steal naice big posh linen napkin from venue to cover skirt when expressing.

Sorted

MermaidTears · 26/08/2016 18:27

Ok so now you are outfit ready, any cheeky chance you can tell us which slebs might be there?Wink

Thingmcthingyface · 26/08/2016 21:07

I reeeeaally shouldn't and it could out me (the shame in RL of having been on mumsnet bibbling on about skirts)....
I'll pick one and we can play 20 questions? Grin
getting my money's worth of entertainment out of this one

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AVY1 · 26/08/2016 21:13

It's beautiful. I'm going to a wedding tomorrow and wish I had your outfit. There were two requests - formal and no neon and I'm desperately panicked that I'm edging the issue on both. (It's not neon, just colourful)

AnneGables · 26/08/2016 21:15

Keep the Reiss one, you can't put a price on the feeling that knowing you're wearing a shit hot outfit gives you.

Have a great time.

libertydoddle · 26/08/2016 21:27

That is a gorgeous outfit. Hope you have a great time.

TwentyCups · 26/08/2016 21:32

Have a fab evening and make the most of twirling in it!

SheStoodInTheStorm · 26/08/2016 21:49

Gorgeous outfit! I'd love to be able to wear that. Absolutely wear it!

Does this mean I ask question 1?!

Thingmcthingyface · 26/08/2016 22:02

Ask away!! (Really shouldn't do this haha)

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MermaidTears · 26/08/2016 22:39

Are they a reality TV star?

ScarlettDarling · 26/08/2016 22:43

I love a tulle skirt...just gorgeous!

CantChoose · 26/08/2016 23:46

Gorgeous outfit! And I also giggled at the tell-tale toes at the bottom of the picture :)

Thingmcthingyface · 27/08/2016 07:15

Mermaidtears NO. (They have actual talent)

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MermaidTears · 27/08/2016 07:19

Adele? Haha just randomly popped in my head. This will bug me forevermore not knowing Wink

bearofnothingness · 27/08/2016 07:45

It's fab love it

ScarlettDarling · 27/08/2016 09:06

Need to know the slebs ! Are they in a soap?

HaPPy8 · 27/08/2016 09:17

It's lovely! Keep it :)

foxessocks · 27/08/2016 09:24

I love it! Definitely keep it. Personally I'd get it professionally dry cleaned afterwards then keep it beautifully wrapped in your wardrobe until your next special occasion! If you try and wash it yourself and it goes wrong you'll be very cross.

Sorry if I'm repeating other people I did read most of the thread but might have missed something!

Trills · 27/08/2016 09:53

It looks like it will give you MUCH JOY.

SheStoodInTheStorm · 27/08/2016 10:07

Actor? Actress?

Thingmcthingyface · 27/08/2016 11:21

Ok- I am going to set up a 20 questions thread and link it here and ask mumsnet to delete this thread tomorrow....

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PresidentOliviaMumsnet · 27/08/2016 11:30

Moved to S&B for you
have an awesome time at wedding

RobberBride · 28/08/2016 09:31

Did the skirt survive the wedding OP?