"Sometimes girls tell us not to measure their bust yet because they're getting boob jobs."

Today my mom and I attended our very first trunk show.

Somehow I had gotten the impression that trunk shows are when a salon or store gets a designer's entire, new collection and has some casual models walk around in selected pieces of the collection, and sometimes the designer themselves comes too. When I awoke this morning, I was thinking "hmm, will I need to buy tickets?" Well, apparently trunk shows like that do exist, but only as special events. No friends, when someone says trunk show, that likely means that a store has all the new pieces in a designer's collection for you to come in and try on. And usually you need to have an appointment. Also, they only have one of each dress, and they're all the ones that the ("six foot tall, anorexic") models wore. what!

That quote up there is how my consultant liked to describe the models. (And the quote in the title is her, too, but she was describing their clientele.) Anyway, I went to a trunk show for three different designers at Houston's premier salon Louise Blum. And I was almost scared shitless, once I realized that I would be trying dresses on, because, well, I'm comfortable shopping at places like Old Navy or Urban Outfitters, where you sometimes must mount an expedition to find employees to help you out. Also, every item in that place is around the price of three years of rent. It's not my element. (My mom even found a tiny, white flower girl dress that was around $800. Seriously, it was like 1.5' of fabric.)

**I also want to add that when I look back, I realize that it's probably pretty uncommon for people there to work with anyone with a facial piercing. I really forget that thing is there almost all the time. Ha.**

Overall it was a good experience. Luckily the consultant I was paired with was a nice, older woman who used to teach high school history and english literature. She secured a large dressing room in the back of the store and never hinted/suggested that I needed to step outside of it (and stand on the pedestal in the middle of the store). It also just so happened that one of the designers featured at the trunk show (Christos) turned out to be a designer I really liked. Which I wish to qualify by saying that it's hard to find dresses I like because I dislike beading or anything sparkly 99% of the time, which means that I dislike the majority of existing dresses in the world. But I'm not picky, I swear!

The only downside to the visit is that my consultant warned me that with a wedding in August that I should order my dress by Feb. 1st. Yipes!

Okay, that's enough wedding shit for today. Goodnight!