Shopping the Outlets with Scott – Something Never to Be Repeated

Off to the outlets we head. They are horrible, giant boxes filled with people rooting through the racks and the stores are all designer so even with outlet prices the costs are ridiculous, especially when taking into account the crappy exchange rate. Scott manages to get a few things at Levi’s (where the mark-up is like 100% of what it is in the US) that with carefully planned laundering should get him through the trip. Of course, he will be in the same sweater for every photo. Then we head to Hugo Boss to try to find a suit. This store is INSANE!!! It is three stories tall with all sorts of passage ways and rooms leading to more rooms. We head to the “seconds” where things should be the cheapest but all of the suits are made out of cotton or some other weird material and all of the shirts are fuchsia and neon. From there we moved onto the confounding “leather suit section” in case we were in danger of forgetting that we were in Germany. Finally we find the normal business suits and Scott begins the trying on process. Good Lord! I finally find a bench and wait. Erin went to the bathroom about 10 hours ago (she actually witnessed an ice storm come and go while waiting for us outside, no joke) and since that moment on I have been pretty much been watching my boyfriend try on suit after suit that look almost the same. But, as he points out, it’s not the same as me buying a dress because he will wear his suit once a week for three years – and I am going to hold him to this! A woman sits down next to me and tells me that her boyfriend has thousands of suits and the one Scott is trying on is too big, he should shoot for a smaller size. He tries on the smaller size, she is totally wrong, I guess her boyfriend owns thousands of suits that don’t fit. In the end he decides on a lovely black number that was the second suit he had tried on. Finally, we are ready to head to the lake.