White dress alert
 

Target has tasteful all-white dresses available if you should need one. I tried to find it online but it wasn't on their site,

Oooo, thanks--I need to go. I want to shop for one now for daughter #4 and not get stuck like I did with #1 at the end of August, looking for a white dress everywhere.

I was just going to post a simliar thread, lol. Dillards also has quite a few nice white dresses out right now.

JcPenney also has some very nice white dresses in stock right now, on sale.

Is it socially aceptable to buy clothes from Target? Like would you care if people saw you buy clothes from there?

I thought women liked to buy from so-called classier stores.

I amj ust thinking about the sorority girls necessity thread.

I wouldn't be caught dead in a dress from Target and I'm not even that status conscious. I was just raised w/ that you don't wear clothes that cheap if you wanted to be taken seriously. I would go on longer about this, but I don't want to hijack.

I'm sorry to sound rude, but you just made yourself sound so stuck up.

i know where you are coming from. i am actually the same way. shoes are another story. i love getting shoes from target, wal mart, etc. but i do not like to get clothes from there. although i have heard that target has really good clothes. i still dont want to get it from there. it sounds kind of stuck up. but it really just a matter of preference.

Target actually has really nice clothes, good quality and designed by Mossimo and Isaac Mizrahi (sp?). Wal-Mart, however, is another story...

I am the opposite. I only wear good shoes. I don't mind buying clothes from Target if they look good and are reasonably well-made. I mean, nobody knows if your plain black t-shirt came from Target or Neiman Marcus! I think accessories make the woman. :D

I actually get complimented on clothes I have bought from target. Yes some stuff is crap but they also have some nice items.

Target has some good and bad stuff. I think it makes a difference in what you are buying it for.

I went with my mom there the other day to get some stuff.. she hates buying expensive clothes for work bc she is a k-teacher. She is always coming home with paint, food, or whatnot on her clothes from the kids.

Anyways.. if you are looking for a white dress just for pledge/initiation purposes which you dont plan on wearing other than for this.. go ahead and buy it cheaper. I know after these events I never wore my outfit again. I was never trying to make a fashion statement at these events. :)

Edited bc I cant type today.

target...
 

I think you can find ugly junk in an expensive store just like you can anywhere else. Ugly is ugly no matter how much it costs.

one more thing
 

And I was raised in a family with one working parent and a food stamp pantry. I was in the 8th grade before my family actually started to make more money. We were lucky to get clothes from Goodwill so when I got old enough to get my own job I was DAMN PROUD to have Wal-Mart and Target clothes. I bought them myself and to this day I am concious of what I buy. It has nothing to do with "being raised" a certain way. You can look good and be taken seriously in a sack dress if you carry yourself well and believe in your own strengths.

Sorry to be rude but this is a very touchy subject to me.

I'm reading this thread and LMAO!!! Mr. honeychile's niece was a model, and in her portfolio, she has photos from varying stores. The Target clothes looks SO much better than some of the clothes from say, Saks! When I mentioned it to her, she showed the clothes to me (she usually got to keep them), and sure enough, even the quality was better.

If you really emotionally need that designer label, for heaven's sake, go for it! Rich designers need to live, too! But don't fool yourself into thinking you're getting the best money can buy!

Well said!!

Really, the only important thing in life is finding the perfect $200 shoes to go with your $50 dress.

Agreed. I wouldn't buy a business suit or anything from there, but they have some really nice casual clothes. I LOVE Isaac Mizrahi! :D

What she said! I mean heck the only time you are going to wear that white dress is for initiation, which is once or twice a year!

I mean hell, I got my dress from the Newport News Catalog for $15. I was not trying to be a fashion plate!

BTW, Target has some nice clothes and one of the only places I can find jeans in my desired length. (I wear longs) :D

It seems that these days, every time I ask someone where she got a cute item of clothing, the answer is Target. I've got no shame about browsing their clothing racks when I'm there. I like Bama_Alumna's take on it - nobody is going to go pull the tag out of your black tee (or your white dress) to see whether it came from Target or Neiman Marcus.

I got my white dress from a thrift store for $4. It looks fantastic, no one knows where I got it until I tell them that my Ralph Lauren dress was a great thrift store find.

Unfortunately, we don't have a Target where I live! I've gotten some cute shirts there when I've traveled, though.

As a geriatric counselor, I've had to go to thrift stores to get some clients some clothing, and I also pick up any uniforms that our aides can use. I've been using a Saks bathing suit cover up for a few years that cost me a big 50¢ and I always get a good giggle out of the many compliments I get!

I apologize in advance if this sounds bitchy :)

I can pretty much afford to buy my clothes wherever I want, and in my closet there are some pieces from Target. ( :eek: )

To my way of thinking, if I like something, I like it and it doesn't matter to me where it comes from.

But that's just me. I guess I'm at a point in my life where no one else's opinion counts when it comes to how I dress myself :)

As far as cheap shoes, the main reason a lot of people hate them (the first time I told my mom I bought shoes at GC Murphy's, she had a cow) is that they used to be made very poorly, with no arch supports and too-tight toes, and were very hard on your feet and hurt to walk in. They've come a long way as far as comfort. They might still fall apart, but I don't see the point in wearing Jimmy Choos to a bar with beer & crap on the floor and ruining them - that is what cheap shoes are for.

That would make two of us.

There's something to be said for aging gracefully!! ;)

What if a member makes her own white dress?? That's what I'm planning on doing for our Convention because I can't find a dayum thing that fits me and looks presentable.

Does that make me (watch out, I'm busting out the T word) tacky?? :p

I think the white dress alone will make you tacky. :p

Seriously, y'all - it's a white dress for ritual. If I was ritual chair or guard of the door or whatever, I wouldn't say "Suzie is that from J.Crew or BRep? If it's not you can't be initiated!" I'd say, "It's white, looks good to me!"

Way to go, James, on instigating over something totally unnecessary again.

I totally wore a white nightgown for ritual when I was an undergrad. Nobody knew it was a nightgown! :p And I know that was tacky. But... it looked just fine & I only wore it for like an hour.

GammaPhiBabe! I love your spirit! You are just da bomb!

Triad Love coming atcha!

Target has some really cute clothes and they are getting more and more big names to design stuff for them. I only wish they had a bigger plus-size section...and sometimes their shirts can be cut very small so I have to go up a size or two to get one that fits properly. But I buy clothes from them. :) They're a really good source of workout clothes for me too.

I will buy things like socks and national brand stuff (Playtex, Hanes, Fruit of the Loom, etc.) from Wal-Mart but I don't really go to them as a clothing source.

And I am a bargain shopping queen...I love going to places like Marshall's and TJ Maxx and outlet stores. I try not to pay full price for things if I can help it! :D

The only times I ever wore my white dress were pledging and initiation but some sororities wear their white a lot for rituals. My AOII daughter's chapter did that and on top of that, she became Keeper of the Ritual pretty soon afterwards and she had to have white everything--shoes, hose, and a dress that couldn't be strapless or have spaghetti straps. Agghhh! Just TRY to find that in December!

I was ready when the next 2 rushed...we got the whites the spring before recruitment. PNMs take note.

I love Target for workout clothes. Some of my most comfortable pairs of sweats are from there. I do own a dress, a shirt, and a couple of pairs of shoes from there too. Although I admit, the shirt doesn't fit right on and the shoes are damn uncomfortable. But accessories and purses and casual clothes that I wear to the gym... it's all about target.

I'm a babe on a budget. I take what I can get in between Express' Super Sales. :D

Target's been where I've found a few basic pieces for work, like a plain white shirt, etc. I was there Friday to find a pair of shorts for vacation this week that I knew would fit as opposed to the shorts @ my parent's I'm unsure of. That's kinda how I view Target, something basic or something in a pinch...

I'd rather see someone in a pretty flowing nightgown than a skintight too-short hoochie mama dress or white jeans.

Question
 

After reading the posts on this thread, I have some questions. Are some people afraid to wear clothes from lower-priced stores because they are afraid that someone may see them in there shopping? Are they afraid of wearing a dress from Target or Walmart and scared that someone may recognize that particular item of clothing and know exactly where it was bought?

Personally, I have gotten more compliments on outfits that I have bought from Kmart (yes I said KMART) than from outfits that I bought at Lane Bryant or some other store. If you know how to shop, you know how to pick out well-made items, no matter where it's bought or how much it costs.

We have a store here called Value City. Value City actually does carry name-brand clothes from all stores. Just at cheaper prices. I mean, dang. If I go into Value City and see a skirt for $10 that I know costs $40 at Lane Bryant, guess who's getting my business? Value City.

I am open minded. I will wear clothes from everywhere. As long as they fit well and look good on me, I could care less what store they came out of.

One last thing...if labels are really all that of a concern, you can buy the labels all by themselves and sew them into your clothes!

Re: Question
 

This stems from my childhood. If you wore clothes from k-mart, target, walmart, etc. you were outcasted and made fun of. People who were overweight, unathletic, dumb, minorities, etc. got less shit from people than those who wore cheap clothing. One set of my grandparents were judgemental of people who wore cheap clothing also.

I still have an irrational fear that people will look down on me if I wear really cheap clothing. However, I don't wear expensive clothes either. It is in between. Also, I don't care what other people choose to wear, as long as you groom yourself, it is fine with me.

Wow, where I am from and where I go to school (2 different states and cultures), wearing clothes from Target isnt a big deal. Even the girls with more money than they would ever need will stop at Target before they go anywhere else. I buy all of my bathing suits at Target because I like their designs and their fit better than any other place, plus I can get both pieces together for less than 30 bucks instead of at least 30 bucks a piece at other stores. I also love getting casual sun dresses there. I have a brown and pink halter dress that I got there for 10 bucks that I got sooooo many compliments on. I also love their purses and especially their shoes. I have a pair of brown boots I got there for 15 bucks that were so comfortable I went and got the same ones in black. I wear them at least once every week and I have had them for about 2 years. They are great! I love Target! And everyone gets envious when I look just as cute in my 10 dollar dress as they do in their 150 dollar one. HA!

Amongst my Chapter....my sisters LOVE Target. I always hear sisters tell another sister that they got their shirt or skirt at Target when one asks where she got it bc its cute. I happen to love Target. I always find good deals and decent stuff. I love their purses (I have a purse fetish...its quite sad if you ask me).

Also, where I live we also have a Value City. I always find designer clothes for cheap prices. When I was in high school I found a designer black satin dress for $40 (I don't remember the designer and I'm too lazy to go get it outta its dress bag).

My opinion, designer or not, its clothes and it does its job. As for whites, I only wear them for rituals. Otherwise you will not catch me in all white....well when I get married you will but thats not for a LONG LONG time :D

Growing up over here, we're lucky because every girl pretty much has to have a white muumuu. Muumuu are not all big and frumpy and they won't make you look like a balloon. You can get them pretty much anywhere here for cheap. Usually each new member class in my chapter makes an outing to the swap meet/flea market and depending on how many they buy they can get one for less than $20. They look great...and uniform!

This one might cost a bit more, but this is the one I want to get especially for Convention:

http://store4.yimg.com/I/hawaiianwed...p_1784_7415286

I like Value City but its hit or miss whether I can find something I like....my favorite places to shop are thrift stores and yard sales --I just love getting good clothes for bargain prices! I also LOVE LOVE LOVE Steinmart but I am not sure how "national" Steinmart is....