A Great Find: the Sleeveless Ruffle-Neck ATL Dress

My daughter woke me up at 6 today and it was already pouring. If you have kids you know that those days when it rains like hell and you wake up with the perspective of staying at home all day trying to entertain your little one(s) are the longest (the time just doesn't seem to go at same speed) and by 9 I was already bored to death (and that was after placing a $159 order at Jcrew.com). My daughter must have been bored too because she wanted to go outside. Outside where? I ask. Park? She replies. But it rains, I say showing the rain pouring outside the windows. She understands rain but she insists. Let's go. I explain to her that the only place where we could possibly go involves mommy trying stuff and her watching and it's not going to be a lot of fun for her. It looks like anything is better than staying at home with mommy today, so I prepare her for our expedition (thank you, thank you, thank you for saving me from boredom). We can only walk few blocs because of the rain, so our destination will be the Gap and ATL.

We stopped at the Gap first to check out the dresses. If you have missed it, Gap is having a "25% off all dresses" promo only this weekend (for women, babies and kids).
Surprisingly, they didn't have many styles. I gave a try to the Empire waist tank dress (#655030):




Sorry, as you can see I was lazy and I've tried it with my jeans and wellies but you get the idea. This dress retails for $39.50 in store but it's currently 29.50 on the website and comes in this color, black, bright pink, purple, yellow and white. I didn't like it on me (maybe is the color but the black and white were sold out) but it's worth checking it out if you're looking for an easy dress for the summer. It felt very comfortable and it's a great combination of fabrics: the top is in a knit cotton and the skirt is in woven cotton, which makes it a little bit different from the other dresses.

Then, we went to ATL. I "discovered" ATL not more than a month ago when I went into one of their stores for the first time to look for their cotton 3/4 sleeves Jackie-esque cardigan. I was really surprised with their clothes and I have now added it to my shopping path. The prices are good (today I found that their prices were better than at the Gap) and they have great basics.
Anyway, I came back for a tank that I had already tried on when I bought the cardi. I was waiting for it to go on sale but the white was sold out in my size so today I decided to buy it FP ($24.50). The SA insisted that I try "some color":


But I prefer a neutral color and got the grey:

This tank screams "summer" to me. I can't wait to wear it with a pair of white linen pants. In the same spirit, it looks nice with the ATL knit skirt (reg. 36.50, on sale for 24.50):



When I was in line at the register, my eye got caught by this dress:


It's called the "Sleevless dress with ruffles V-neck" if you can call this a name (style #233795). It cames in black, brown and lilac rose, which is similar to the Jcrew flamingo pink. The store only carried the black and the pink and I tried bot the black and the pink in XS:






I got the pink one. The lightning was horrible in the fitting room and it's a total different color IRL:




It's a really cute dress and it retails for only $39.50. The fabric is a nice stretch jersey (93% cotton and 7% spandex). This was the first time that I tried an ATL dress and I think I'm a petite but this particular one was sold out in petite so I got the regular size. I got it anyway but I might go and look for a petite in another store. The best part is that they are giving away a $25 card with every $50 spent (on full-priced items) through Sunday. So now you know what to do this weekend lol.

Have a nice weekend everyone!