I Love Lucy!!!

So, I was watching "I Love Lucy" this morning--you DO understand it was a rerun, right??? Anyway, I was watching & it was the time they were in Paris, and she & Ethel wanted a new designer dress, and she was going on a food strike until she got the dress. Well, you know how it goes, she fools Ricky, Ricky finds out, Ricky fools Lucy, and on and on. AND she gets the dress--it's price? $500 Now, that was 55 years ago, and prices have skyrocketed to today, and it hit me----I STILL HAVEN'T SPENT $500 ON A DRESS!!!!! That just totally blew my mind--that still to this day, I think the most I have ever, ever spent on a dress is around the $200 mark. And I was so proud of that dress---now it seems rather tacky. OMG---I am a hillbilly!!! Maybe my aunt did marry my grandpa and my dad is my uncle!!! Maybe I have the fashion sense of Charlene Darlin (you have to have watched Mayberry). Maybe I should move to the wrong side of the track, down by the city lake, and consort with those living in vans!!! Next thing you know, I'll have "bend over people" in my flower bed!!! I don't even SHOP where $500 dresses are available. And I thought I the mall was my friend. I am soooo embarrassed! I am shamed!!!! I am humiliated!!!! And how in the heck do women pay for those $500 dresses? Maybe that's why Tulsa County is the "meth capitol" of Oklahoma---is that who is wearing those $500 dresses???? You would think I would have noticed the toothless, skinny, paranoid gals in those designer dresses! No, that can't be who are wearing them--they're passed out by sundown, and those dresses haven't been spotted at the Piggly Wiggly in town. And I know it's not school teachers--I've seen their paychecks! So, if regular band leader wives who lived in teensy apartments in NYC and played games with their budgets in 1952 were able to have ONE $500 dress in their lifetime, how did they do it---why can't I??? I don't even have a $500 car payment!!! I want to survey all who read this---how many $500 dresses do you have in your closets, and what do they look like? I do love Lucy, but I now realize she & I could not have been friends. How could I have hid this from her? And then, when she inevitably did find out, I would have been at the end of her nose--she would have dropped me like a hot tamale! Maybe I will go back to patterning fashion after Aunt Bea---I can say with authority that I believe she would have NEVER spent $500 on a dress!