On Saturday, we went to Leesburg Outlets, where I looked high and low for a pair of embellished jeans. In the entire mall I found exactly one pair that fit…except they were too long. One place I didn’t check was the Coldwater Creek outlet, because I figured they wouldn’t have that kind of thing. But I checked their website yesterday and they do have embellished jeans! We have a store locally, so today I called them up and asked if they had any in my size. They had two in the size below mine, and one in the size above…but none in my size. So I saved time by calling, but I had to order them over the web.

I almost never order clothes (other than t-shirts) online, and I wasn’t sure if I should get a petite size or not. The ones I tried on over the weekend were way too long, so I ended up ordering these in my size (petite), and these in my size (regular). Whichever fits, I’ll keep; the other I’ll return to the store in Tyson’s.

But good grief, they were expensive. They were $43 and $49 respectively, but shipping was $11! Because I live in a state where they have a brick and mortar store, taxes were an additional $4.65. If I had only ordered one pair, shipping would still have been $10, so I’m not losing too much that way - I’ll only lose half the tax when I end up returning one of them. But still - why on earth should two pairs of jeans cost $11 to ship? I’m quite certain I could put them into a flat rate Priority Mail box and send them off for $4.05…they are just raking in the dough with those extra shipping charges.