I love new.
New food in the refrigerator, new minty floss in the bathroom cabinet. New Netflix selections in my mailbox. There’s just so much possibility in new that I can’t help but be excited. Really excited. I have been known to lie awake in bed, unable to sleep, crippled with the anticipation of having a new breakfast cereal to try in the morning. True story.
What excites me even more than new cereal, though, is new clothing.
At Christmas one year (I believe I was two), I got my first taste of new clothes, and I liked it. A little too much. According to my mother, I could not contain myself when I opened my first gift to find a new dress. In a flash, off went the nightgown I was wearing and on went the new frock. Just like that. In front of everyone. I repeated this with each new article of clothing I unwrapped. One of my uncles was pretty amused by the baby burlesque and joked with my mother, “This is going to be pretty interesting when she gets older.”
Thankfully, as I grew older, I also grew a bit of modesty. But I won’t lie. That compulsion is still there.
When I got home this afternoon to a brown UPS box on my doorstep, I was overwhelmed with giddiness. So overwhelmed that I actually yelped a little and attempted one of those leprechaun dances. There was even plenty of room in the hallway to click my heels. You know, were I even remotely coordinated.
Jig botched and brown box in hand, I pushed into the apartment already tearing at the packing tape. Before the door had clicked shut, I’d lifted my purchase was out of the box and off its hanger. And in seconds I was standing in front of my bedroom mirror oohing and aahing, admiring my brand new… winter coat.
Yeah, yeah I know it’s July. But July happens so to be the absolute best time to buy a winter coat. A yummy black cashmere trench is about a thousand times yummier when you pay a fraction of what all the other chumps paid for it in November (Bluefly, ladies. Go. Now).
Affordable is so sexy.
Decked out in my affordably sexy coat, I twirled around my apartment, petting myself and telling the cat to Look! See! Pretty new coat! He was unimpressed, but I swear to god were it not eighty-five degrees, I’d still have that sucker on. So pretty.
Only…remember the breakfast cereal? Well, with the promise of this little beauty tucked away in my closet, there is no way I am going to be able to get to sleep. Until at least, when? October? Wait! I think it gets chilly sometimes in September! In Montana.
Sigh.
Ahhh new clothes… even their smell is tantalizing
You do have that new air conditioner. Turn that bad boy down to 50 and you can enjoy your pretty new coat right now!!!
can.not.afford.
you, swirling about in your coat, in 85 degree weather, remind me of when i was little and would get new shoes. i was so happy with my unblemished sneaks that i’d beg to wear them to bed. even though i don’t wear my new shoes to bed anymore material things give me such pleasure!
I always crave what I can’t have too — winter clothes in the summer & summer clothes in the winter. But you gotta love the constants: shoes and purses. Most can usually be enjoyed at any time of the year!
I love new clothes. They make me happy. And Bluefly is pure heaven. I bought one of my favorite coats from that site.
You’re a panderer. You know that, right?
Telling people blissful in their ignorance of Bluefly where it was and what it was…. (sigh!) I am now in love with the Versace coat, which will go unrequited because it costs more than my house payment and my car payment combined……
Such a cute post, Fish!
By the way, I live in San Francisco and July is actually when we bust out the winter coats. No joke.
It’s beautiful… there are no words. I had no knowledge of Bluefly until this post, and now I’m in love. I just may have found my own version of the bicycle, thanks to you! I could probably marry Bluefly in Vermont…
HA! Yeah, Vermont is certainly the place to try that sort of thing. I have always been temtped to elope there with Ben & Jerry.
you could revert to your childhood days, strip down and don the coat.
then, go stand in the open refrigerator.
hehe
you. you get excited by dental floss but not by fireworks? DEAD TO ME.
I jsut bought a swimsuit off Bluefly. I say you do the same and that anticipation for the coat and be re-routed.
Hey, any excuse to buy something else is always welcome!
And to think – if you were called to the Southern Hemisphere for some reason – you would be suitably attired!
I hereby call you to the Southern Hemisphere! (It is actually sunny today but last week we had a river. Under the house. A whole river. Not even a stream, creek, brook… River.)
P.s. Google agrees with me, I’ve never seen the phrase “jig botched” before.
OMG, Fish, I was shopping for a winter coat recently too! My friends thought I was nuts. A question for you–how warm is a cashmere/wool blend. I live in Boston and have not been able to find a coat warm enough to stand up to waiting for the bus in February at night.
Very amusing post!
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Good work, Fish.
I knew you wouldn’t be able to resist trying it on.
I had no idea about the baby nudity, though.
showing my age,,but will share that as a young tween…i slept with a new pair of tube socks with Vinnie Babarino on them. (yes, that is John Travolta)
Believe it or not, the cat was VERY interested in your new purchase. The thought racing through that kitty brain? “I’m gonna have me some fun shedding all over that thing!”
Right, when the UPS guy delivers clothes to work, the box is open before I have signed for it.
I love ordering stuff on-line. It’s really is like Christmas for adults when the delivery van pulls up outside.
Mind you I’m more about the bicycle* tools, than clothes. I love receiving things that looks like medievel weapons while at work. It’s hard for customers to whine about discounts when you’re holding a meter or so of shiny steel covered with odd knobs and pointy bits.
*That’s bicycles as in the two wheeled thingys not the metaphorical bicycles of this site. Mind you, I’m sure you can order tools on-line to fix that sort of bike, or so my email keeps telling me.
One thing my sister and I used to look forward to during the Chinese New Year (other than the red packets of money) were the new outfits we would get!
As we got older though, that treat seemed to fade away. Last year, our parents said, “New clothes? Sure, get whatever you can afford yourself!”
I like winters!! I love to buy my winter wears from Lane Bryant store through couponalbum.com…