If there’s one thing we hate, it’s shipping charges. We know, they’re reasonable cost of doing business, but we just paid a $13 shipping charge for a $29 purchase (at The Dutch Store, if you were wondering, otherwise known as Connecticut’s leading purveyor of Edam cheese), and we did not like it one bit. So we always try to avoid it as best we can, whether this is looking for coupon codes or topping the minimum purchase. At Topshop, this is an annoying $50 purchase—or a $10 shipping fee. We are filled with annoyance and hate, at least as it concerns our afternoon’s online shopping. Did you know Topshop won’t issue store credits? Annoyance! Hate!

The real problem is that it’s also one of our very favorite stores, and occasionally we’ll do something like find something in the store that we really want but not, say, have time to buy it in a calm fashion before meeting our friend Heidi, and then we’ll get home and start freaking out that they won’t have any left tomorrow, a situation exacerbated by the fact that the website does, in fact, seem to be out of three of the four colors our prospective new duffel coat comes in. And since we can’t miss an hour of work to go get it in the morning (and believe us—we gave it some thought), we need to buy it online. (RIGHT NOW OMG.) At least it’s over the $50 minimum and gets us out of the $10 shipping fee.

The craziest thing about the Topshop website to us is that they make the clothes look so totally meh and still sell bazillions of them. Topshop bound seam duffle coat, $178

(By the way, speaking of celebrities in coats, we are totally influenced by TSwift in this one—it is Topshop, P.S.:

Anyway, two more suggestions for how to get over Topshop’s minimum purchase.

We love this dress—Mary Katrantzou on a budget. That skirt shape is to die for, and that pattern beautiful even if it sort of looks like something Snoopy threw up. Floral dress, $150

These are the prettiest shoes we’ve seen all day, even if we’d have to put them back in their box until April the moment they arrived at our door. Leopard-print shoes, $120