since when do stores have myspace pages?

welcome to the first post in the "fashionista wannabe" thread.

i don't know what happened but last weekend, while staring into my closet, all i could think was "i have absolutely nothing to wear". i couldn't decide on shoes or a shirt (thankfully i remedied my jeans crisis a month ago, when i hopped on the skinny jeans bandwagon). thus began a week long obsession with surfing the internet for deals and finally buying the grown up heels i've been craving as well as a cute new shirt from a trendy little boutique i ran across last night.

so a few weeks ago, i discovered that we had a loehmann's in friendship heights. and more exciting than that, after i signed up for my little discount card i got an email notifying me of their website. this saves me the trip of heading all the way up the redline, but really there is nothing like cruising the racks for the perfect find. they have a TON of shoes though, and if you know what brands you like, i would definitely look into that section of the site.

La'Vand, a boutique that represents itself as THE cool place to acquire your going out fashion, professes to carry a very limited number of each item (6-10) so that "only 5 other people in the area will own the same thing". more impressive was that the fashions were actually affordable...of all the clothes i tried on nothing was more than $50...they don't have sales, but hey, who cares. the sales woman picked out like 20 shirts for me saying i had to see how they looked on, and to her credit, she was right! They have a plethora of patterned prints and modern silhouettes that you can easily work into your existing wardrobe. The downsides were that a lot of the stuff was synthetic material like polyester and some shiny stuff that i typically try to avoid. and, with all the styles being from NY and LA, things ran a size smaller, which was ok in shirts but so not cool when i had to try on a pair of size 11 jeans and they fit like a glove (a really sexy glove, but still, no one wants to go from a 6-8 to an 11!). Hilariously, La'Vant has its own myspace page, which shows you its taking itself a bit too seriously. Its located in Pentagon Row, right around the corner from DSW.

btw, i just want to give a shout out to the D-S-W. i was trying to find a picture of the nicole miller shoes i bought and i can't find them on any of the major shoe websites...nada. they had at least 5 pairs of her shoes there and a decent range of sizes. i had plenty of shoes to pick from. and though my toes still are screaming for the return of my clunky clogs, these were by far the most comfortable pair of the bunch.