I bought this really cute brown skirt from charlotte russe a year ago. The problem was I don’t really wear brown, so I didn’t have a shirt to go with it. I bought this cute brown shirt from NY&Company about 4 months ago and this morning decided (since it’s supposed to be 72 degrees today), that I would wear the outfit. It looked great.
I walked into my office this morning and sat down at my desk and could feel this hard thing pressing (more like jabbing) into my stomach. The skirt has a metal belt buckle fashioned on it. To the naked eye it looks cute, but not so much when you’re getting hurt by it. I could barely sit at my desk for 5 minutes without the buckle forcing itself into my stomach. I thought to myself, this is NOT going to work.
So I had a fabulous idea #1: cut the buckle off the skirt. It makes for a really, really long day when you have something ramming itself into your stomach.
I walked over to Librarian’s office.
“Good Morning. Do you have a safety pin?”
“Not that I know of, let me check.” [searches office] “Nope, sorry. What’s wrong?”
“Well, my skirt has this gosh darn metal buckle on it and every time I sit down, it jabs me in the stomach…so I wanted to cut it off, but then if I do that, this part will hang down, so I wanted to pin it together.”
“Hmmm, well, let’s see. I have a bag tie. Maybe that will work?”
So there we are, at 8:15 in the morning, cutting the buckle off my skirt and trying to fashion a clip to hold the pieces together. After about 20 minutes of using paper scissors (bad idea #1) to try to cut the buckle off, Librarian realized that the metal bag tie is too thin and flimsy to work.
“What if we paper clip it?” I said. (fabulous idea #2)
Aahhh, the paper clip. Funny enough, it worked.
I noticed by boss had come into by now, so I went to see her.
“Good Morning, Boss.”
“Good Morning, how are you?”
“Good. I had a little fashion disaster this morning. My skirt had this metal belt buckle on it and it kept digging into my stomach, so Librarian had to cut it off and we paper clipped it together.”
[Boss laughs]
“I guess that’s what I get for buying a fifteen dollar skirt at Charlotte Russe!”
“Hey, there’s nothing wrong with that. At least it wasn’t a more expensive skirt that you had to cut. You know, it’s amazing how these people come up with these clothes. It’s like you wouldn’t know that that buckle wouldn’t have worked out unless you were a buyer. I mean, even the people who work there don’t even realize this stuff!”
“I know. I mean, I put it on this morning and it was fine, but then I get into work and sit down at my desk and it’s trying to slowly kill me. And I thought I would be able to make it till lunch with it, but I could barely sit at my desk for 2 minutes, let alone 5 hours!”
“Clearly it was made to be worn only on the runway!”
So here I am, sitting at my desk, typing up this blog while a paper clip holds the fabric of where my belt buckle used to be. What an interesting way to start off my morning.
Stupid Charlotte Russe and their skirts with overly large, metal belt buckles!! Seriously, it must have been a guy who thought up that one.
Obviously there was a reason why I hadn’t worn this skirt since I bought it.
Me - 1, Charlotte Russe - 0
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