Sailing in

I found this sailboat dress on the clearance rack of Banana Republic Factory; they only had one left in a size two. Since I know other stores will ship items directly to the customer, I took the style number and started calling every store within my 100 mile radius. No one had a size four.

Of course I mentioned whined about this on social media, and Jessica kindly offered to call stores in her area. This was terribly nice of her, but I decided to let her do something productive with her afternoon and do my own legwork - the mere idea of changing my radius to somewhere halfway across the country was brilliant enough.

A couple more calls and the dress was on it's way to me from Wisconsin, though I was quite puzzled to find that not only was the sticker price $14 more than it was here, the extra reduction was 30% rather than 40% off. Evidently we get better sales in Connecticut.

After all is said and done, the dress was worth it - I wore it to my sister-in-law's nautically themed baby shower and everyone loved it.

The Rundown

Sailboat Dress Banana Republic Factory similar

Sandals Franco Sarto via TJMaxx identical

White Mini Satchel Tignanello via TJMaxx similar

Bling Earrings JoJo Loves You

Gold Knot Necklace Thrifted similar

Anchor Bracelet Knotical Knovelites

Knot Bracelet Banana Republic
Chain Link Bracelet Thrifted similar
Knot Ring c/o Emitations
Thin Gold Ring Etsy via Sweet Olive Jewelry
Sunglasses "Meteor" Ray-Ban c/o TJMaxx

Nail Color "Gunta" Julep

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