I am a lucky, lucky girl

About two weeks ago I was contacted by the Career Centre manager at the local Dress For Success just to let me know she had something for me as I wasn’t able to attend the last meeting. During my email to her a few days earlier I had mentioned I had secured a job interview so during our phone call she asked if I had been to an interview dressing appointment, I said no and she asked if I was interested and I said yes. She outlined the referral process and my dressing appointment was today. The usual thing is an hour with a volunteer dresser/stylist and you come out with a complete interview outfit including shoes, jewellery,handbag and makeup. I was thrilled with this idea but thought being short and plus sized the chances of a full outfit might not be great.

I was the only client in the showroom so had 2-4 people helping find stuff which was a bonus. I probably tried on or considered 30 items in 90 mins. I ended up walking out of the showroom with a coat, cropped jacket, a tunic length top, 2 more tops, 2 over blouse type tops, 3 pairs of shoes, a designer handbag, two necklaces and makeup all for FREE! The shoes and handbag alone were worth roughly $1100 so I figure I probably got $3000 worth of stuff today.

If I am successful with a job I’ll be eligible for another session to get more clothes within 6 months of starting a job.

 

@jesskab you know what I didn’t take any photos at all but I’ll be there at the end of the month so will try to remember then.

 

True, I didn’t think about that I’d practically written the journaling by writing the post. I’m not sure what I’ll wear on the day to be honest - I already had a few choices but this has added 4 or 5 new outfits to the mix.

 

it was super fun - I joked with a friend of mine that I was going to play dress up for an hour or so to which she laughed out loud.

 

Normally it would have only been the one outfit but they basically said everything looked great on me and the boss isn't here and neither are any other clients so I was like I'm fine with that.

 

I will scrap it, just got to figure out how I'm going to scrap it and what I need/want to buy to scrap it (notice need came before want )

 

Think it will probably be one of the new outfits as I really want to wear the bright royal blue shoes that I got (they are from France and feel like slippers on my feet), just have to figure out what I am going to do for pants or skirt as they didn't have many options but I have 3 days to figure it out.