My friend is moving to Seattle next week. This means that I only have a week to find a Christmas present that is suitable for her. It’s not easy shopping for a female, not to mention I do not have any clue on buying fashion-related gifts.
Having only been on the west coast since January, I have yet to venture up to Seattle, let along learn much about the Washington city. I reviewed what was obvious: it rains, great music scene, home of companies like Microsoft and Starbucks.
I could have gone the path of a generic gift, but I felt that was lame. And in these times I believe its only worth purchasing items that are a necessity, not superfluous. Rain gear was what I figured would be appropriate, though I had to be certain that I was not treading unknown waters.
A raincoat sounds simple, but after going online, every fashion designer has his/her own rain- line. Since she wears a wide range of designers, I nixed that off my list. While purchasing a new pair of Converse Chuck’s (I lost my other pair while intoxicated), I did a search for “rain”. To my surprise, Finish Line had a decent selection of rain boots. Perfect! After doing a quick search for online deals, I came across one for 15% off $65+ on shoes online at FinishLine.com.
15% savings these days is killer. Shoe apparel has become a complex industry with too many brands and styles. Luckily the rain boot hasn’t changed drastically. There are those waterproof shoes, but for the amount of rain Seattle gets, you need to real thing. Let’s only hope that when I visit they’re not in the closet squeaky clean.