Dresses

There's this little used dress shop in a town about forty minutes north of us. We've been there a few times over the past few years, looking for dressed for Lyss to wear to dances. We found a dress for the Jr High formal when she was in eighth grade. We found her dress for last year's Homecoming dance as well as prom. See, I told her last year that when she's a junior and a senior, I will be willing to pay full price for prom dresses but as freshman and a sophomore? Nope, not going to fork over hundreds of dollars for dresses she will wear one time. I suppose I'm mean but, well, it's a valuable lesson, right? Right.

Yesterday we headed up to visit Sassy's Closet again, hoping to find something for her for this year's Homecoming dance. It's in October, so I thought we were getting a jump on things.

We pulled into the parking lot and saw the sign that stated that Sassy's closet is going out of business. Huh. Well, then.

We went in and started looking through the racks. Alyssa announced she'd seen every dress hanging there.

Olivia hadn't seen them all, though. She found a beautiful periwinkle dress that is very much in the shape of a mermaid. She asked if she could try it on. I knew the style was too mature for her but figured it couldn't hurt.

She looked adorable in it but it was a little big and way too long. It was also very much too mature. Alyssa, though, once seeing this dress on her sister, decided that perhaps she should try it on too.

While Lyss was trying on what we dubbed the Mermaid dress, Liv found a bubblegum pink dress that she declared would be the perfect dress for her to wear for Halloween as Barbie. She asked if she could try this one on too.

I knew the pink dress would be too big too but my mom is excellent with a sewing machine so we took a chance. She was ecstatic. It was so perfectly Barbie pink.

Yes, again the dress was too big but not so much that it will look weird if my mom takes it in a bit. She will also add straps to it to make it more comfortable for Liv.

We left that shop without a Homecoming dress. But we didn't leave without a dress at all. We walked out with Alyssa's prom dress for this year's prom and with Olivia's Halloween dress.

I'm not posting a picture of Lyss in her dress, for fear her date will read this and see it before the big night. But here is Olivia in her Barbie dress. She's in love.