Here's chapter 2 :) it's about Hermione shopping for clothes, it might seem a little too descriptive but I think it's required if you want to have a vision about Hermione's new self-esteem.
Chapter 2- Shopping spree
My clothing style isn't really spectacular: in Hogwarts I always wore my school uniform, even in the weekends. The only exceptions are Hogsmead-trips, but mostly I just wear a pair of jeans ( my favourite muggle clothing) and depending on the weather a t-shirt or a hoodie. Lavender and Parvati always have something to say when I come down from the dormitories on Hogsmead-weekends. But I'll prove those bitches that I can be more than a boring bookworm! I was planning on buying whole sets of new clothes that will make the new me stand out.
The first shop I entered was 'Mango', I always loved the clothes of Mango but I used to be too uncertain to go in and try on some clothes. But my new hairstyle had given me the courage I lacked and I was immediately mesmerized by all the dresses, pants, blouses, … It took me two whole hours to see everything on the racks and to try on the pieces that I liked. Eventually I came out with: two pairs of skinny jeans (a petrol blue coloured one and a burgundy coloured one, both with gold coloured studs on the pockets), a thin white blouse, a few tank tops in primary colours (but no ordinary tops, the backs of the tops was all lacy, so see-trough) , an oversized knitted sweater ( dark green with silver coloured threads woven into) and last but not least three dresses. The dresses are my favourite pieces because I'm not used to wear dresses and the ones I had just bought look really good on me. The first one was a little black dress, it was going to be my neat, formal dress: it didn't show too much cleavage and fell just below the knee. The style of the dress was a simple A-line with a dark grey ribbon around the waist. The second dress was going to be my party dress: it was a skin-tight dark purple dress with on the front thin horizontal layers of glitters in different shades of purple. This dress did show cleavage but not too much, since the dress was an eye catcher anyway, not only because of the glitters but also because the dress is almost entirely backless! And finally the third dress was a flirty and light summer dress, a light brown coloured one covered with a little floral print and gold coloured buttons.
My next goal was lingerie, I was tired of my cotton panties a few years ago but hadn't had the spirit to get me some lacy or silk panties. The shop I bought my underwear was the 'Intimissimi', a typical Italian brand. I came out with 7 sets of underwear, none of them in cotton. Everything was lace or silk or some other luxurious fabric. I also bought a kimono-like silk dressing gown, a dark blue one with a white strap, and a bathing suit. Yes, I know, another bathing suit. I'm just not that confident yet about my body (actually the party dress was already a big risk to take). But the bathing suit is beautiful: it's a retro marine-based one that showed a good bit of cleavage.
Then I went to 'Calzedonia' for stockings: three pairs of cute ankle socks in candy colours and three pairs of stocking pants: one thick, grey, wool one for in the winter and two see-trough's ( a black one with a floral print and another black one with little polka dots) . Next came the shoes, for that I visited a few shops and I ended up with four pair of shoes. Two pairs of pumps with high heels (a black pair and a dark blue coloured pair), a pair of dark brown combat boots (similar to Dr. Martens' but a bit cuter) and a pair of Vans ( Off-The-Wall slip on's with a red/black checkered pattern).
My last stop was the M.A.C. for beauty products. Since I never applied any make up myself (Ginny had helped me for the Christmas Ball in my fourth year), I asked a kind woman from the shop to help me. What I hadn't expected was a complete make-up tutorial. She learned me how to apply foundation, blush, mascara, eyeliner, lip liner and lipstick. I came out with all that in different colours and felt absolutely beautiful. So I decided that I would give myself just one more present: two flasks of O.P.I. nail polish. I chose a matte champagne coloured one and a shiny blue-greenish one.
With all my purchases in my handbag (I uses an undetectable swelling spell to fit all of the shopping bags in), I could go back to my house, relax with a book in the garden, cook dinner and go to sleep early. Because I've planned a trip to Viareggio beach for tomorrow…
A/N: If you liked it, please leave a review? ^^ and btw, the next chapter will contain the first meeting between Hermione and Draco!