I’ve lost 60 pounds since having my son 6 months ago (yay me!) and was sorely in need of new clothes. Although I am now under my pre-pregnancy weight, my pre-pregnancy clothes still fit weird. What’s up with that?
Anyway, my mother-in-law was in town this weekend and she has really good taste so I agreed to be dragged along clothes shopping. I don’t love shopping for clothes for myself, especially at the mall, so I didn’t have really high hopes. I normally walk right by the Ann Taylor because I think of the clothes there as being too "dry-clean-only" and I have no business owning anything dry-clean-only, even for work. Well! I found 4 new skirts, 1 new pair of pants, and 4 new tops in comfortable, washable materials, most of which at big savings, And when I got up to the counter, I discovered that the store is actually not an Ann Taylor, but an Ann Taylor Loft which is, apparently, a more casual (and cheaper!) version of Ann Taylor. I just checked their website and they are apparently having a ginormous summer sale right now too: http://www.anntaylorloft.com/atlShowSaleCategory.process?RestartFlow=t&Section_Id=10
The sales staff was attentive without being pushy and they have a great range of sizes, fabrics, and styles. I am 28 and a size 10 and my big shopping dilemmas tend to be 1) the clothes I think are cute are not flattering to my body and 2) I don’t want to dress “old” but I don’t want to dress like a teenybopper. Both problems solved at Ann Taylor Loft. Yay!
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