/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Have a meetup in like two weeks and my garbage ebay petticoats have deflated in their month or so of storage (I had to move and didn't bother unpacking them until now) I know the long term solution is to get a good, well made petticoat but I'm on a time crunch so should I buy a third, also shitty petticoat to stack on top and hope it'll add enough poof simply by being newer or should I get a cage skirt to put under the two already existing pettis? I haven't heard much in the realm of using cage skirts outside of their non functional use in ero but at the same time I know that if it works I'd absolutely end up using it more than another shitticoat.

I'm actually pretty happy because I've got an ok job right now and I'm making a decent amount, but the catch is it's a temp-to-hire deal so I'm not sure if I'm going to have a steady income in a few weeks. This would be alright if I wasn't planning on using that extra cash on padding my wardrobe with all the nice second hand burando I've been keeping tabs on. I've seen over half of the dresses I wanted sell while the restocks have mostly been ugly or bad colorways, and while I'm probably going to stay strong it's going to be hell on my nerves until I know for sure whether I can get it or not. At least when I was a NEET I knew I just straight up didn't have the money to buy more stuff.