Britney Gets Some New Duds

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After all that Brit's been through recently, she needs what every girl needs sometimes -- a little retail therapy. And while a week of shopping can sometimes be as expensive as a month at Promises, I sometimes wonder if it's not an even more effective treatment! Britney sure looked happy yesterday afternoon as she walked out of a cute Bel Air boutique wearing a new dress and as you can see in our exclusive video, she was, in fact, in very good spirits.

Now, to all the Britney fans out there -- we've been flooded with requests to have our photographers' next question to Brit be about her career and the possibility of a new album or single and I promise you, we'll do our best to get an answer from her the very next time we see her!

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