I fell in love with this Tufi Duek top the moment I saw it on BlueFly.com. I loved how classic it looked – 1940s secretary vintage. I was concerned by two factors. One was the price, which was about $100 (marked down from about $200). Not that much money, but more than I normally would spend on a single top while between jobs. The second was that it was very low-cut. I was also a bit concerned with the cut – empire waist tops …

I bought these on a whim. I really should not have bought shoes, but I couldn’t help it – the deal was almost mind-numbing.
Why should I not have bought these shoes? Well, for one thing, I had been unemployed for several months, and the unemployment checks had just run dry. I was also leaving for Vegas and I wanted to have some gambling money. Also, that very day, I was buying a brand new MacBook Pro, and those don’t come cheap! And yet, I …