Most people buy a dress for a specific occasion.  I buy a dress and then search for an excuse to wear the dress.

This dress is going to High Tea and it’s taking me along for the ride.

I scored this beauty on a massively good thrifting day along with two other dresses and quite a few other secondhand treasures. The thrifting Gods were with me that day my friends.

It is an ABS dress by Allen Schwartz which apparently retails for around $350-$450.

I paid…a whole lot less than that!

There are no fabric description tags however it feels like silk and the neckline and lower bust are trimmed with mini faux pearls.

 

There was a dry-cleaning tag attached to this and it is in immaculate condition.

In this heat am enjoying the fact that it is loose and yet shapely. A rarity in dresses.

 

I’m busy searching for the very best place for high tea for this dress.

 

 

I am a sucker for high tea dresses/outfits and have amassed quite the collection should I suddenly be faced with an intensive week of non-stop high tea emergencies. You know how that goes.

Outfit Ideas For High Tea

I think this would have been the perfect outfit to wear to the Queen’s Plate.

Shame I found it the week after the Queen’s Plate.

I’ve never attended that particular horse race before but I have gone to horse races while visiting Prince Edward Island and bet a few times.

I’m not a gambler so this it very out of character for me. I always feel there is something else I could have done (thrifting, obviously) with that $10 rather than gamble it away.

Here I am making my totally random selection based on the name of the horse. Yes, I’m impulsive scientific like that.

And winning! No, not a million bucks, I think it was $20. Doesn’t take much to get me excited.

Yes, that is my natural hair colour. Well, aside from the purple bits.

Are you a gambler? Have you been to a horse race? Did you win anything?

When was the last time you bought an outfit and then had to figure out somewhere to wear it? Or am I the only crazy doing that?

 

 

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