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Lane Bryant – good, bad and …. rompers?

Posted on 02. Dec, 2009 by kaisermommy in Kaiser Mommy, Product, WIN!

Victoria and I worked with Lane Bryant this summer before the BlogHer conference. We rawked their Right Fit Jeans, Little Black Cotton Dress and HOT Hot Pink Dress collectively.

Victoria needs some clothes for her big Vegas trip coming up, so we started shopping on twitter for her. Naturally, I hit LB in my search because they’ve been so good to us before.

kaisermommy: dear lane bryant WHAT? http://is.gd/51dm2 with a side of THEFUCK?! http://is.gd/51dmY11:39 AM Nov 22nd from twhirl

kaisermommy: okay DID lanebryant smoke a bowl before designing this fall line? http://is.gd/51dri11:41 AM Nov 22nd from twhirl

ewiller @kaisermommy Oh dear. Yeah, this body would never EVER consider wearing those. My gawd.2:40 PM Nov 22nd from web in reply to kaisermommy

@ewiller I KNOW!! and it’s NOVEMBER.11:42 AM Nov 22nd from twhirl in reply to ewiller

themaggers: @kaisermommy are they for serious2:41 PM Nov 22nd from TweetDeck in reply to kaisermommy

@themaggers apparently. this is …. amazing…. and bad11:42 AM Nov 22nd from twhirl in reply to themaggers

themaggers: @kaisermommy the thing is that somewhere out there somebody will wear it and make it look fabulous

2:45 PM Nov 22nd from TweetDeck in reply to kaisermommy

There were more awesome comments – one about who cut up grandmas quilt and decided to call it an asymmetrical skirt but Twitter search is being a douche and won’t show it to me.

I was additionally discouraged because I needed to be shopping for a dress for my cousin’s wedding in 3 weeks. Where I see my family for the first time in a year. For the first time since I’ve packed up from a 10 to a 14/16. (GOOD TIMES FOR ALL!)

The next day. The VERY NEXT DAY. A lovely rep for Lane Bryant contacts me. Because of the relationship we started this summer and the success of that relationship, would I like to have a gift card to use and tell you about what I bought.

*totally unrelated from my tweets*

I felt a little guilty about taking the card. But I took the card. OF COURSE. I needed a dress. I was determined, and now armed with some cash to make it happen. The additional challenge was to avoid all that stuff from above.

I looked on the website more. They’ve redesigned it and, well, I don’t like it. It’s sorted into subcategories now like you look for dresses and rather than seeing all the dresses on one page, it’s sorted into black dresses, social dresses, casual dresses … I’m positive there are a billion people out there who alphabetize their spices and sort their tampons by size, who LOVE this category system – I just like to see all my options at once so I know I’m not missing a piece of awesome off in some corner where I didn’t click.

So all of this sounds pretty snatchy so far – It’s getting ready to take a turn for the better.

We have two Lane Bryants in town. One at the mall which is really nice, and “the other one”. “The other one” was more convenient, so I hit that one over Thanksgiving weekend when the entire store was 40% off. As soon as I walked in the store I breathed a sigh of relief. Oh the pretties. Not a khaki romper in the joint.

I found a coat I fell in lurve with – but it was more than I had to spend, and wasn’t going to help me be ready for the wedding.

I picked up dresses and a couple sweaters. I was shopping for a dress, but the sweaters made me happy. One of them, I had noticed online and really liked.

I took a bunch of photos in the dressing room. As I was taking them, I kept thinking of this photo.

(Photo totally grabbed from Hope 4 Peyton – because Anissa’s awesomeness should be celebrated in that dress cuz hot damn kids. HAWT.)

My photo fashion show isn’t NEARLY as good – but here you go – I had fun taking them (Pardon the hair and glasses – was #aiminglow apparently.)

I start off showing you that I still love my Right Fit Jeans from this summer. They make me look curvy and kinda hot.

I tried on the red sweater next (not realizing I had a size too large) and just loved the sleeves and the overall girly feeling of it.

The grey dress was the one I found online that I thought would work. but it was a #fail on my curves. (See 1st photo for curves.)

Black turtleneck dress with wrap I made myself – at the time, it was an okay option. Looking at the photo I’m thinking MAN that looks pretty freaking good!

Same dress in red – I felt like my mother. I like mom, don’t want to channel her when I’m clinging to my 20s though.

Black sweater, ribbing around the waist to help it find the curve between bustline and hipline.

THE VERDICT

I was going to buy the black dress – its soft, warm, went with the boots and the wrap I had. Bridesmaids at the wedding are wearing black, so no worries about being inappropriate.

Thing was, I REALLY wanted the red sweater, and I didn’t have the funds for both the dress and the sweater.

Also? I had a dress at home that *could* work if I really wanted it to. I decided I wanted the red sweater enough to make  the existing dress work.

So I bought the red sweater and the black sweater. Love ‘em both. Thanks Lane Bryant for having my back, and my curves, even when I don’t always give you love on twitter. (But SERIOUSLY?! Rompers? You were asking for it. )

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