Paisley bargains

I’m in the mall i go to sometimes in dreams and looking through the sales rack of last summer’s stuff. It’s all marked down and very reasonably priced. I’m looking for a pair of shorts and find a pair i like so take them into the dressing room to try them on. The dressing room is made completely of wood. Wood floors and doors and benches. It reminds me of the public showers i used as a child when my family would go camping in National Park campgrounds. The shorts fit perfectly and look really good on me. They’re Bermuda shorts but made of very fine silk. The pattern is interesting – sort of olive colored leaves in paisley swirls on a cream colored background. There are flecks of other colors that i like. They have some kind of odd inward turning cuff which keeps falling out. That ruins those particular shorts for me and i guess that’s probably why they never sold. I do like the style though so i put them back on the hanger and decide to take them to another store that’s downstairs from the one i’m in to see if i can find the same style but in a sturdier more durable material. I wonder if the first store will arrest me if i leave the store with their merchandise but they don’t. The other store downstairs is one i’ve been to before in dreams. There are rows and rows of clothing in several rooms. Two rows on every wall – one high and one low. I don’t want to look at all the clothes so i ask the salesman if he could tell me if he knows whether or not they have something along the lines of what i seek. He shows me some denim shorts that are similar in style but they’re sized for a child and i tell him i would definitely have to have grown up size and he tells me they don’t have any so i go back to the first store and put the shorts back on the rack and continue going to where ever it was i was headed when i got sidetracked by the sales rack.

[It seems like i never find anything i want in that mall. I should go and shop somewhere else in my dreams.]

I assume that the mall represents my 'world' and maybe i should just stop shopping off the sales rack looking for a bargain if i seriously want to find something of value (fine silk) that will last (durable) and is made for a woman, not a child. The dressing room and the pattern of the shorts represents the nature of my desire? Natural (wood), calm or peaceful ('olive' leaves) and traditional yet funky (paisley)? Dunno. Could be. Will ponder.