Ella Moss Outlines Your Ta-tas

Yesterday while at an unglamorous work event my coworker Krystal and I saw some signs announcing "Huge Sample Sale". We hightailed it over there. Inside, they were selling Ella Moss, BCBG and Splendid. Krystal had never been to a sample sale before.

I love Ella Moss, but on my non-profit admin salary and at at least $100 a top, I usually only get one Ella Moss top per season. Here, they were selling samples for $35 - $39 each. I only found two tops I wanted to try on, though, and although I loved one of them, it was open all the way down the back, therefore has to be worn without a bra, which rules out wearing it to work or in any temperatures below, say, 72 degrees. (Unless one was to wear some kind of pasties or those nipple covers they sell that are called "Lowbeams".

I saw this top at the sample sale. This looks like someone took a black Sharpie and literally drew around the breasts. "LOOK, here are my BREASTS!" it seems to scream.
I thought this top was bizarre.

What was also bizarre was the dressing area of the sample sale. Now, sample sales are pretty basic affairs. They have great stuff but it's all just on those basic metal rolling garment racks and usually in some empty rented space. It's certainly no department store or boutique experience. There's not always a dressing area, although they often set one up with mobile screens, mirrors, etc. This sample sale was particularly haphazard, with cheap full=length mirrors propped here and there that still had their price stickers and some cardboard descriptor on them "FULL LENGTH MIRROR $12.99" and such. One end of the dressing area was visible from the street.
There were women prancing about in their raggedy, unmatching underthings with ill- fitting thongs burrowing up their butts. Krystal and I, being a bit more modest, kept to our own side of the dressing area and kept our pants on while trying on dresses.
I nodded toward the other women and told Krytal that's why I always tell her to wear nude thong panties under boyshorts and a nude camisole when going shopping. You never know when you're going to need to avoid the dressing rooms, or not find dressing rooms, and want to try things on semi-publicly!

We ended up buying nothing. Such is the way of sample sales: they're hit-or-miss. We certainly both passed on the Boob Outline top, despite the nice price.