When bargains collide...

Ruffled halter blouse from Pop: $49

Ruffled taffeta D&G skirt from Neiman Marcus' 'Last Call' sale: $144.20

Burgundy opaque tights by DKNY: $12

Exposed platform pumps by Marni: um, okay, so moving on...

1/6 of a Miller Light longneck handle-pack: $.88*

Cadbury Creme Egg pre-party snack: $.89

Monte's permission to go out: belly rub and $1.50 braided bully stick

Ze Evening at The Source & Clyde's

See, a lady needs not a punch of color to make her outfit stand out -- it's all about creating drama with texture, cut, detailing and a couple of white-hot girlfriends.
(HRL in Alexander Wang; C in DvF)

And what better detailing than a bum bookended between a bow-belt and a row of ruffles? I mean, honestly, a bow and ruffles? For me, heaven.

Don't let my smile fool you -- I'm actually protecting HRL and C from the enblazered asshat who picked up HRL's camera, deliberately licked his lips and instructed us to "get it on all sexy-like".

Um yeah, dude, for you, anything, just as long as you spare us the gratuitous name-dropping, the visible shock at meeting three women smarter than you who don't look like Spam hash and your suffocating downpour of Chaps cologne.

*at The Source and Clyde's, the price went up to $7 and $6, respectively.