The search is on...
Recently I decided that I wanted a sundress for the summer season. In college, I had these two dresses that I referred to as easy wear and easy care. They were a linen-like material, flower pattern and had a loose look about them. I loved them. My college roommate Melissa, didn’t. If my daughter, who like Melissa has a sense of style, saw them she would wonder why Melissa ever let me leave our dorm room. I wanted a dress like this— easy to care for, just toss on and go, flattering to my figure (a.k.a loose) and flowery. I decided to brave the online world for my search as stores have just begun to reopen. I started first with the stores I already shop at and struck out. Then I entered my search criteria into Google. We know stores buy ads and use keywords to get you to their site even if they don’t have what you’re looking for. Thanks, big box store. Most of the other results were the companies that mass produce items of clothing quickly and cheaply so that every teenybopper can dress like the latest TikTok trend or their favorite celebrity for as long as the photo of the said outfit is up on TMZ. Not for me, thanks. After hours of search over several days, I headed to online-only companies that sell it all or close to all (on a related note, when I can buy a new organ online then they will be selling it all). I finally found some dresses that fit most of my criteria, once I got past the fact that most retailers think that sleeveless equals spaghetti straps only. For those of us who can’t get by without a bra and haven’t found a strapless bra we like or feel uncomfortable wearing one, we need wider straps and not racerback or halter, please. Now the dresses are on order. I hope at least one looks good on me and fits my easy care, easy wear criteria. For the record, whatever dress I choose, my daughter will not like it. Unlike Melissa who understood my style and liked certain clothes I had and not others, my daughter abhors my clothing taste. Thankfully, she inherited her sense of style from her maternal great-grandmother, Grandma Syd, who was always impeccably dressed.