Of course, I "window shop" at QVC and regularly fill my "Wish List" with all kinds of things I like and want and might one day buy. If you were to look, you would find not only shoes, but clothes and jewelry and kitchen goodies. There is an enormous choice there on QVC and I love that. For example, I was looking for a particular pair of pants and discovered that on QVC.com, I had a choice of over 1900 different pants..... And I didn't find what I was looking for! But they will have it before long and I may finally find what I am looking for. Believe me, they know what I want, as I have told them several times, mentioned it in response to blog postings from them, told them on FB... but all that is not the theme of this.
You see, I went to Neiman Marcus's website to shop. Yes, I know I couldn't afford what I found, but I needed to see that what I wanted was out there, and in good taste, and fashionable. (Well, I didn't want to look trampy or hicky or old!) Besides, for years, Neiman's was on Camp Bowie and was what I thought of as my neighborhood department store. Camp Bowie had Monnig's and Cox's and Neiman's and for a while, Meacham's; and I loved it all. But that was a very long time ago. When Neiman's moved to Ridgmar Mall, it was built at the very end of the street on which I now live. It is still my neighborhood store and I do shop there as much as I shop anywhere. I always have. It was never that big of a deal with us to go there to find something. In fact, David used to laugh that his clothes came from Neiman's and Sear's and that was just about true.
Anyway, back to my online shopping trip. At N-M, I put in a search for pants and a page of 36 photos of gorgeous models in terrific pants came up, with 28 more pages just like that behind it.... That is a lot of pants from which to choose, almost as many as QVC carries. I was quite surprised. but just looking at the page as a whole knocked my socks off. The variety of styles and the colors drew me in and I had to see some of them... And I began to look. From time to time, I would choose one and really get a good look at it. Those of you who have never shopped at Neiman's need to understand that there are things there you can afford and those things do not cost anymore than they would at Dillard's or any other department store. They are simply in a nicer setting in the store and put into a dress bag from N-M when you take them home. I love it in there.
Somewhere on page 22, I found something I wanted. I even clicked on it and went to look at it. It was a gorgeous pair of slacks with a tunic to match. I knew there was no way I could ever have it. But were money not a question, I would have ordered that beauty right then and there. I just cannot see me paying almost a thousand dollars for the tunic and a little less for the pants even if it was silk which I dearly love and purple which you know I prefer to wear. No, fifteen hundred dollars was a little much for something absolutely beautiful to wear.... where? Central Market? That would be a little crazy. Walking through produce in $1500 of purple silk would terrify me. Out to dinner? Can you see me dropping Mexican food down the front of that? To church? No one would notice it was anything more than a lovely outfit and so I could wear it to church. I would know that it was silk and that I loved it. I would also know that it was pure foolishness to have done such a thing. I would feel so guilty. And so instead of thinking about buying the purple silk loveliness, I decided to write about it and share it with you. And so, the pants I loved....
