i like bloomingdales

well let me first say that I am, in a phrase, fashion challenged. I know very little about clothes, it is very hard for me to see why this goes with that, and why this doesn't . . . and usually when i buy clothes, half of thetime the items i buy don't look right in the light of day and never get worn. It seems it is pure luck when i get something that fits and i like and doesn't wear out.

Buying suits and dress clothes is a whole 'nother level of aggravation, tho, as so much more money is at stake. I have tried buying dres clothes on sale-- I invariably ended up with a lot of stuff that is green, brown, or plaid.

So anyway I decided to bite the bullet and go to bloomingdales and buy a nice italian suit. canali looked good. I called, they said, come on down, we just got a whole bunch of new stuff in stock.

Well of course that means it's not on sale but i didn't care.

Anyway this very nice sales lady listened to my tales of woe and carefully brought in various items for me to try on (it helped that it was on a monday night and no one else was around) longer story short, the only thing they had that fit me at all was . . . you may have guessed it-- an armani suit. I admit, it sure looked nice. I was ready to buy. It was a pricey item, but i didn;tcare. only thing, it wasn't hanging quite right. the tailor came in and said, NO. We can't sell you this suit, the cut isn't right for you.

Now just about any other store would have gone crazy trying to get me into something that sort of kind of fit just to make a sale. so I was VERY impressed that bloomie's put my looking right ahead of their own immedate sales goals.

If this sounds like a remake of miracle on 34th st., maybe it is. I will be going back for the "trunk show" where they say they have a good chance of fitting me with some good stuff. I'll be scruffy til april. I can do that standing on my head.