I twirl around a little, feeling gorgeous and glamorous. I then decide to admire my own beautiful reflection outside in the big mirrors. So I carefully hang up all the clothes I've tried on (in case the clerk finished with her phone call and came to check up on me and have a heart attack with all the mess I made), and walk out. Thankfully, nobody is here, so I peacefully do a few more little twirls in front of the mirror and admire my reflection. But then, suddenly the door next to my own dressing room opens, and a familiar blonde haired girl walks out....
She glances over at me, almost seeming a little annoyed to see me standing here. She then gives me the once over, and her face softens a bit.
"That's a really cute dress"She says, coming next to me and staring at herself in the mirrors.
A big smile is plastered on my face."Oh my god, isn't it?"I squeal happily. And this is what I absoluetly love about shopping. The gossip you get to do in the dressing rooms, even with people you don't know!
I glance over at her again, and check out her outfit so I can say something nice back to her too. She's wearing the same man's button down shirt I tried on earlier, except she's wearing it with this shapeless drapey jacket, a denim mini-skirt and the real cute hot pink ennamel pumps I had my eye on before. But the outfit is really not working at all..She's totally wearing the clothes all wrong... Each piece is taking away from one other!
My mouth is itching to tell her that her outfit just isn't working, but I bite my tongue. Trust me, people do not like it when you tell them their outfit is ugly. So instead, I just focus my attention back to my gorgeous black dress, and I give another little shimmy.
"You know"She suddenly says frowning. "Something's wrong with this outfit, and I don't know what it is"
I look over at her again. Everything about that outfit is wrong, I want to say. But instead, I politely say "That shirt is really cool, I was just trying it on before.."I say pointing to my dressing room. "But..Maybe you could wear it with something else instead..?"I ask cautiously, not wanting to offend her.
She looks at me curiously, waiting for me to go on.
"Like, maybe you could wear it with skinny jeans instead"I suggest.
"Hm."She says, considering what I said. "Yeah, I think skinny jeans would look better"She says, tugging at her skirt.
I gain a little confidence and speak up. "I actually have the perfect pair of jeans, you should try it on!"I say, running into my dressing room. I grab the pair of absolutely stunning dark blue skinny jeans I had brought to try on for myself, and run out to hand it to her. She takes them without a word and disappears back into her dressing room. And suddenly I have a stroke of genius!
I run back out to the store and grab a real funky chunky faux skin snake belt, a gorgeous oversized yellow bag, a stunning black scarf, and a real cute straw fedora hat. As I'm hurrying back to the dressing rooms, the girl is just coming out, wearing the jeans, and looking much better. Except she's still wearing the huge jacket thing.
"This is so much better"She says, smiling at her reflection.
I nod in agreement. "Yeah it's totally cute!"I say. "I also grabbed some other stuff that I thought would look really cool with that shirt.. Do you want to.."I say unsurely. The girl sort of shurgs okay at me, so I run over to her and excitedly begin showing her all the stuff I brought, but she doesn't really seem to understand what she's supposed to do with everything.
"Okay, I'll just do everything, you just stand still!"I order, and she looks a bit taken back, but then just sort of shrugs okay. So excitedly, I begin working my magic, Thr first thing I do is take off the huge jacket, and that alone makes the outfit look tons better. I also add the big chunky belt on top of the dress shirt, and it immiediately gives the whole look more shape and definition. I then tie the black scarf I picked out on to the big yellow bag, give it to her to hold, and as my last little touch, plop the fedora hat onto her head. And honestly, she looks absolutely stunning!!
"Wow"She says, seeming geniunely impressed. "Wow, I look hot!"She says, smiling.I let out a little giggle.
She then glances over to me. "You've really got great style instincts"She says appreciatively. I smile gratefully.
"Yes, I do don't I?"I say, and we both laugh.
"But really, I mean the tieing of the scarf on the bag! And teaming this shirt with a yellow bag?I never would have thought of this kind of stuff"She says, smiling at me.
"Oh.. Well"I sort of shrug, but I'm beaming proudly on the inside.
"And oh my god! Those shoes are the most cutest things I've ever seen!"She says, pointing to my yellow ballet flats inspired shoes. I found them at some garage sale about a week ago, and instantly fell in love with them. And it was a total bargain at 2 dollars!I've been wearing them non- stop since then, so I'm actually beginning to kind of get really bored with them now.
"Where did you get them? Are they Ferregamo?"She asks, staring closely at them.
"Err.."I say, lifting up my feet and examining them. "No, they're actually vintage"I say. Which I guess might be true. And then I suddenly realize something. These shoes would look so cute with her outfit!
"Oh my god, these shoes! You have to try them on, they would just complete your whole outfit!"I exclaim, getting excited. She looks over from herself to my shoes, and seems to get what I'm saying, because she runs over to me excitedly. I quickly take off my shoes, she takes off her gorgeous hot pink enammel pumps, and we both exchange shoes. The hot pink pumps look STUNNING with my black dress, and the yellow flats look absolutely GORGEOUS on the girl. We both give a simultaneous squeal and then laugh.
"Can I buy these shoes from you?"The girl says in a rush."I'll buy you twice what you paid for them!"She says.
Twice for what I paid! Wow!!! How much were these again? I think. Then I suddenly realize.2 bucks...Okay, so I bought them for 2 bucks, so I sell it to her for 4 bucks. Wowie, a profit margin of 2 dollars.. My mom would be so proud.
But then, a thought pops into my mind.Or... I could lie and say it was 400 dollars, and sell it to her for 800 dollars...I mean,vintage items are really expensive, and how would she know? And after I sell the shoes,I'd actually be able to afford this gorgeous black dress!
I open my mouth to say something, but close it again. I can't lie to her..
First, because I'm a terrible liar. And more importantly, I still have a little thing called a conscience in my head that won't allow me to pull that kind of stuff off.
"You know what.. "I say, feeling somewhat generous. "You can just have them, I was getting bored with them anyways"I say, smiling. "And anyways, they look way better than you then they ever did on me"Which is true.
"Really?"She asks, "Cool!"She says.
I suddenly feel like mother Theresa or something. I am a philanthropist, I am literally giving the clothes off of my back! Okay, the shoes off my feet but it's the same thing.
Suddenly, the nice shopping clerk from before enters the dressing room area. She looks over from me, to the blonde girl and and looks totally alarmed.
"Miss Lohan, I'm so sorry, I had no idea that anybody was still in here, I was sure I'd asked everyone to leave"She says in a big rush, looking terrified.
Miss Lohan? What's going on?
And then suddenly it hits me. Shit! No wonder this girl looked familiar! It's Lindsay friggin Lohan! Oh my god, I have been trying on clothes with Lindsay Lohan. NOBODY is going to believe this!
