Impulse purchase today...mixed feelings

[Atty]

So I was shopping around the other day for new jackets and decided to check out Express because they had an app that my gf put on my phone (to show me what she wants me to buy her, unfortunately they don't sell kitchen appliances, silly woman.)

Anyway, came across this awesome looking jacket:
http://www.express.com/cotton-milit...show/3/sort/Best_Sellers-Descending/index.pro

Showed it to her, she liked it, and when I was on break from work tonight I decided to venture over to the Express store and check it out. Nice girl helped me find it, get the right size, and instantly started complimenting me on it. Told her I didn't want to buy it tonight ($198) but she offered to give me a discount that was available online.

Long story short, the original 15% precent discount became $30, then $40, and they finally gave me $50 off and sent me on my way. I paid $158 w/ tax for it.

I feel horrible now. I like it, my gf likes it, all my co-workers loved it but idk, I miss all those moneies.

/blog

 

[BudAshes]

yeah i don't care at all.

 

[Sluggo]

Only sizes showing online are

X-small
small
medium

Is it a clearance item, or they just don't want normal and fat guys wearing it?

 

[Atty]

No idea. They had L in store. :-\

Although it is a preppy store, so I expect only skinny rich kids are their target audience. Who knows.

 

[KaOTiK]

Fonz

 

[Kadarin]

Targeting the skinny spiky-haired Asian guy crowd?

 

[Mike Gayner]

Men who discuss their clothing purchases with other men are invariably homosexuals.

 

[Atty]

Men who discuss their clothing purchases with other men are invariably homosexuals.

Yes but that doesn't answer the big question, how does it make my butt look?

 

[DirkGently1]

Did they size you up for a bra while you were there?

 

[Veliko]

Gayest inane thread of the week so far? I think so.

Next week: "I walked through a field and almost got stung by a bee".

 

[brainhulk]

one of my coworkers looks at j crew and express for pants at work. I ask wtf is that shit? and tell him people might think you're gay...

 

[Old Hippie]

I like my impulse buy Hex Bug Larva a lot better.

 

[IronWing]

Amazing what we buy when a pretty woman tells us we look good.

 

[zinfamous]

Cool story brOP, and imma let you you finish and all, but Banana Republic has the skinniest jackets and the best sales of ALL TIME!

 

[CPA]

Targeting the skinny spiky-haired Asian guy crowd?

I think you misspelled a word.

 

[IronWing]

Every now and then my glove purchase in Gibraltar last night intrudes itself upon me. Dan and the ship's surgeon and I had been up to the great square, listening to the music of the fine military bands and contemplating English and Spanish female loveliness and fashion, and at nine o'clock were on our way to the theater, when we met the General, the Judge, the Commodore, the Colonel, and the Commissioner of the United States of America to Europe, Asia, and Africa, who had been to the Club House to register their several titles and impoverish the bill of fare; and they told us to go over to the little variety store near the Hall of Justice and buy some kid gloves. They said they were elegant and very moderate in price. It seemed a stylish thing to go to the theater in kid gloves, and we acted upon the hint. A very handsome young lady in the store offered me a pair of blue gloves. I did not want blue, but she said they would look very pretty on a hand like mine. The remark touched me tenderly. I glanced furtively at my hand, and somehow it did seem rather a comely member. I tried a glove on my left and blushed a little. Manifestly the size was too small for me. But I felt gratified when she said:
"Oh, it is just right!" Yet I knew it was no such thing.
I tugged at it diligently, but it was discouraging work. She said:
"Ah! I see you are accustomed to wearing kid gloves -- but some gentlemen are so awkward about putting them on."
It was the last compliment I had expected. I only understand putting on the buckskin article perfectly. I made another effort and tore the glove from the base of the thumb into the palm of the hand -- and tried to hide the rent. She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die:
"Ah, you have had experience! [A rip down the back of the hand.] They are just right for you -- your hand is very small -- if they tear you need not pay for them. [A rent across the middle.] I can always tell when a gentleman understands putting on kid gloves. There is a grace about it that only comes with long practice." The whole after-guard of the glove "fetched away," as the sailors say, the fabric parted across the knuckles, and nothing was left but a melancholy ruin.
I was too much flattered to make an exposure and throw the merchandise on the angel's hands. I was hot, vexed, confused, but still happy; but I hated the other boys for taking such an absorbing interest in the proceedings. I wished they were in Jericho. I felt exquisitely mean when I said cheerfully:
"This one does very well; it fits elegantly. I like a glove that fits. No, never mind, ma'am, never mind; I'll put the other on in the street. It is warm here."
It was warm. It was the warmest place I ever was in. I paid the bill, and as I passed out with a fascinating bow I thought I detected a light in the woman's eye that was gently ironical; and when I looked back from the street, and she was laughing all to herself about something or other, I said to myself.

Mark Twain

 

[rivan]

Mark Twain

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[alkemyst]

If losing $150 was that important, yeah you should have skipped the jacket.

 

[Farmer]

You can also get practically the exact same cotton "military" jacket from your East German Military Surplus store for $10.

 

[Platypus]

Pics of you wearing it?

 

[rasczak]

Pics of you wearing it?

Slick Plat, real slick.

 

[Fayd]

lol.

the fattest they go on pants is 40. apparently they don't want fat people wearing their clothes.

 

[Wyndru]

all my co-workers loved it

:awe:

I don't know why, but this is funny to me.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

hmm jacket would go well with my v-taper. girls would be mirin

 

[drebo]

$200 for a COTTON jacket?

WTF?