BCBG Max Azria is offering a printable gift card of $100, valid for any purchase over $300 through April 4th.

Too bad I already splurged at BCBG Max Azria in January for my favorite spring skirt. I’d gone into the Soho store to raid the winter sales racks, and while waiting for a dressing room to become available, was lured into browsing the new spring arrivals, which I would say was a mistake, except that I am in love with that skirt.

Read an interesting feature on Frida Giannini’s rise to the helm of Gucci in the New York Times this morning. It talks about Giannini creating her own path and diverging from the one Tom Ford made when led the fashion house. It also talks about the challenges she faces terms of juggling the financial future of Gucci and maintaining its status in the fashion world. Check it out.

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Last December, while shopping for the perfect holiday party outfit, I encountered a skirt at Anthropolgie that as soon as I saw it, I literally gasped in adoration. It was perfect. It was also $288 (which is not affordable for me). I resigned myself to live without it, sure that it would be snatched up before ever going on sale. Sure enough, it disappeared from the store within a week.

As I was browsing the new sale items at Anthropologie, lo and behold, the skirt! At first I was disheartened, they didn’t have it in my size (as expected), but then I looked through the dropdown menu of the sizes available and voila! one size larger than my normal size, but in petite, which effectively makes it my size. For $74.95!

Despite being impractical (well, not really, there will be more holiday parties to go to) and that I will need to buy something to wear with it (which I would have to do anyway), I had promised myself that if it ever went on sale, I would snag it.

If you really love something and it is affordable at full price, don’t wait for it to go on sale, because chances are, if it is that wonderful, it won’t (two dresses I’ve been eyeing at Anthro have sold out in my size at full price this month, and now I wish I’d splurged). But if it is out of your reach, keep an eye out, and you may just be able to get it.

-Ali

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