Myer, David Jones, I just want my Macy's...

Since my husband works in radio and does interviews with many different people from different places, we get tickets for free movies, or concerts and next Tuesday, Opera. I'm very excited about this since I've never been to an Opera before and to make it even better it's Cinderella. Now, since I've gained a few kilos since I've been here, I don't fit into my dresses properly and need to buy a new one. One should dress up for the Opera! So my shopping spree takes me to two different Myers and a David Jones. So far I've found nothing, very exasperating. I'm hoping Thursday the 4th of July, I'll have some luck at the David Jones in the City, it is their flagship store after all. Much like Macy's Herald Square is for Macy's. Since I don't have a job and we do not have money to throw around I have not gone shopping at all, except for minor little things. I've seen some cute dresses in Myer in the City, but I'm trying to keep costs to under $150, and what I've seen is gorgeous and over $400...so ah, no.We went into the city and we found this wine colored dress and they didn't have my size so I decided to check out the other David Jones on Friday.  So I went to the David Jones at Chermside and found this absolutely GORGEOUS dress, thing is it's $250 and way over my budget, it looked awesome on. So Saturday we wound up driving down to Harbour Town Outlet Center, it's kinda like Tanger Outlet The Arches. I went into this Events store and I found this very nice teal long dress and it was on clearance for $119.95 but the lady saw there was a little hole by the zipper, (the seam split about an inch) she gave me a further discount down to $99. 

This is the one that I simply LOVE and is out of my budget as it looked awesome on! The dress I bought at the outlet is below. It too looks stunning, I just prefer the look of the navy blue.