Last week I was deeply, entirely obsessed with winning this delicately embroidered floral top from the excellent eBay boutique Spanish Moss Vintage. I watched it every day for six days, waiting to pounce, until the price entered what was for me a completely unacceptable realm ($189 for a vintage top? No, no, no.). But I was miffed. I'd wanted that shirt, I'd even done that freaky shopping mania thing with it, where you fantasize a movie-love-story-like montage of all of the places you'd wear it and with what pieces in your wardrobe. Anyway, I had to let it go. Then, I was in Urban Outfitters the other night, and I saw this cool woven blouse, which is a similar idea to the original I'd lost. Sure it's not as intricate, but it's got the same '70s-flowers-and-fishnetting effect, and at just $58, I could buy it in nearly every color and still not pay as much as I would have for the one on eBay.
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