VIP Week at Dorothy Perkins

Let me start off by saying - I frickin' love Dotty P's. Love 'em. They're my shop saviour. I just always forget they're there. I can't count the number of times I've been schlepping about the shopping centre looking for a dress, or a cardigan getting increasingly frustrated by the too-young too-small offerings in H&M, the too-tarty in International and the too-expensive in Next, only to be saved from blowing my brains out at the last minute by Dorothy Perkins.

Let me also say that the bulk of the clothes I buy come from ebay. Probably about 80%. Occasionally though, I spot something new that I have to have. This week was one of those times. I spotted the beauty below and fell instantly in love.

£30 though? A little more than I'm prepared to pay these days. What to do? I noticed a wee link at the bottom of the page offering a 10% discount for newsletter subscribers, so subscribe I did. By a very happy coincidence this week happens to be VIP Week, which means DP offer 25% off everything with the appropriate code.

Hell yes!

I rushed  to the check out, entered my VIP code and my subscriber code. They both worked! I nearly did a dance right at the computer. My beautiful £30 dress was now a beautiful £19.50 dress. Still more than I usually spend, but much more reasonable.

VIP Week happens fairly regularly so if there's something you really have to have I'd recommend holding off. The postage on my dress was £4 so if you can get to your nearest Dorothy Perkins for less than that (I can't, sadly) I'd suggest buying in-store too - the VIP  prices also apply there.

Now I just need to find an excuse to wear it.