Apr 28 2007
Would you take a dress off a mannequin?
This weekend is a Tennessee tax-free holiday. No sales tax on clothing and shoes and school supply type stuff. I decided to spend time doing a little shopping for myself and started looking for a dress to wear to the July wedding.
I’m exhausted from all the stores and crowds and my fussy two year old and have decided that it isn’t out there ready for me to purchase yet. I am making it a bit hard on myself because I want to crochet a wrap and it is a specific color. There are plenty of items with this color in it, but they aren’t all dresses or are the wrong size. For instance, there was a dress at Kohl’s that would have been perfect (great style, perfect colors), except it was in the girl’s department, where I haven’t shopped since I was 10.
I found a dress I liked at Kohl’s but the only size that fit me was currently being worn by a mannequin. I tried on the black version and it was stunning. But I was looking for brown and the mannequin looked great in it. I thought about and then chickened out from defrocking the plastic statue and left deciding that when I do find a dress, even if I have to pay sales, it won’t matter because it will be the dress.
Of course, all of this won’t matter if I keep telling myself I have to have a dress to match this wrap I am crocheting. Guess I better get busy.
Albert and I bought Frankie’s Christmas present last year off the mannequin, even the necklace. It was just what we wanted so we asked and received.
I’d do it! lol
Have you tried to see if they have it online at all?
When I worked at Old Navy; plenty of times, we had to take a piece of clothing off the mannequin. I’ve even done it as a shopper also. If there’s a sales person around, I would ask; but if not, I’d just take it off myself.
I would have… the dress is amazing, you want it, you should have it. They’ll just redress the mannequin! Back you go, then…
My friends took me down to Nashville this past weekend for a little celebration in substitution of a traditional bachelorette party and we were shocked to find that it was tax free weekend! How awesome!!
I’d say go for it! I’d probably start like…”if it wouldn’t be too much trouble…”