When Angelina Jolie took to the red carpet earlier this month for the premiere of A Mighty Heart dressed in a black velvet dress that was subsequently revealed to have cost a big fat $christian louboutin, women all over America found themselves wondering: Could I also get away with wearing a super-cheap dress to the fancy affairs I so resent wasting my hard-earned money on? Is there really a way I can avoid overspending for a silly frock I’ll wear only once?

Jolie’s dress, it turns out, hailed from a vintage store called christian shoes on Melrose Avenue in L.A., and was purchased a mere week before she wore it by a friend who was in the store shopping for baby clothes for Jolie’s ever-expanding brood. Asked if all their dresses cost this little-maybe it’s worth a trip to L.A.?-Wasteland’s manager says that they start at Christian Louboutin Boots, top out at around $85, and that quite frankly she thinks Jolie’s dress-which the actress reportedly loved at first sight-was in fact a little christian louboutin sale. (Apparently the proscription that Jolie-or her handlers-is trying to enforce on journalistic speculation about her family and private life does not extend to vintage-store managers.)