The day that Cavewoman and I found Chanel's at T J Maxx or the day I had a Versace gown in my shopping cart: It is a shopping urban legend. You dream of finding high end designers at a discount store. I have a crazy dream of discovering a Hermes Birkin in a vintage clothing store. You never think that one of these shopping dreams can come true. This dream happened at the T J Maxx store in Beachwood(Woodmere) Ohio. We arrived as they were unlocking the doors. Cavewoman grabbed a cart and immediately went to handbags. She takes her time. She examines the craftmanship and strokes the leather. I whip through the section like a shark looking for a school of fish. I am on the second aisle when I spot a metal miniskirt in a clothing rack. I recognized it as something of quality so I move my way over to the rack. It was untouched. No hands had looked through the goodies. I grab the skirt(very Paris Hilton) and saw that it was a Paco Rabanne. My mouth drops. I take it over to Miss Cavewoman. She is not impressed but changes her mind when she sees the designer tag. I walk back and see gowns with Bergdorf tags. I grab a beautiful grecian pale blue gray gown. It is a Versace. I make a noise that attracts another eagle eyed shopper. Our eyes meet over a Vera Wang. We make a silent pact to be very quiet. I lift the Versace and carefully carry it over to cavewoman. She squeals and abandons her bag search. We find 2 Chanels(both ugly and stained), a great floral Valentino gown, a Marc Jacobs jacket that I actually lemmed, Armani suits, YSL dresses,and many more treasures. It was a mind blowing day. I still can not believe it happened. How many people could say that they had a couture Versace gown in their shopping cart?
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The stuff dreams are made of. The Versace could have been worn by Elizabeth Hurley on the red carpet. Couture in a shopping cart at TJMaxx! Could it be, maybe someday, that Annie and I will find our coveted Chanel ballet flats on a rack at this same store? Anything is possible. We saw Versace at TJMaxx and the sky is the limit.
Oh, yes, and I DO take my time in the bags! Heehee!
As Paris would say, that's hot.
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