Supply & Demand, the shallow fashion version

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The fabulous e_juliana did indeed brave the madhouse that was the H&M Roberto Cavalli launch in SF, and managed to snag me a jacket. Muah-ha-ha-ha!

::stops to recover from feeling woozy after attempting evil laughter. I don't know what this particular version of the plague is, but whoo, headswimmy::

She got me a size 10, which was all that was left. But she tried it on, and said it was a little snug in the shoulders but otherwise fit her. I am smaller through the shoulders than her, so that's fine. And while I am larger though the bust than her, I wasn't planning on wearing that jacket closed up over the bustline anyway, but open over any one of my ruffly blouses.

When I say "madhouse that was the H&M Roberto Cavalli launch", I'm not joking. I've read the various blog reports about how the launch was at other stores, and it sounds pretty crazy. People waiting in lines for hours, grabbing armfuls off of racks, and waiting by dressing rooms to pounce on anything someone didn't want. Needless to say, I owe e_juliana many drinks, and an enormous favor.

Apparently everything from the line is sold out worldwide. It looks like a lot of those items went straight onto eBay; searching on "H&M Roberto Cavalli" returns 576 items, four of which are The Jacket. Which means that if The Jacket doesn't fit me, I will be able to re-sell it easily. Because you *know* that H&M isn't going to get more of this line in; oh no, the whole point of them having Big Designers do exclusives for them is so they can get press about the stampeding crowds of crazed shoppers. I feel a little silly for having helped feed into that frenzy, but oh well.

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[staxxy.livejournal.com]

yay jacket!