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enamouredCHECK THIS. Moleskine has limited editions with Pac-Man and Peanuts. DO WANT, OMG.
There is nothing worse than trying on a dress and being unable to pull up the zipper. Worse when it just won't budge at all on you but when you go to zip it up when you get ready to take it back out of the dressing room and it zips just fine. Oh wait, it does get worse: said dress was $8.99 on the clearance rack. YEAH.
Which brings me to a thought:
I would really love to wear more dresses. I am not a dress girl overall, but break me out something that looks kind of retro cute (I basically want like, half the Mad Men-like dresses on Pinup Girls' website) and has sleeves (because apparently the fashion industry thinks that NOBODY LIKES SLEEVES ANYMORE and honestly this is why I wear nice dress pants and a blouse to church more often than not because none of the dresses that I like have sleeves) and I will wear it. But the thing is this: when I wear a dress or a skirt, my thighs rub together and it's uncomfortable. This has been an issue for me since I was about, oh, maybe eight or so. I can't forget the first time that I realized that it wasn't just women who, like me, have bigger thighs who have that issue. It felt like I wasn't alone in the universe, you know?
I've always been bigger. Not just size-wise, but up to a point I was taller than everyone. Until somewhere in middle school I was always the tallest of my friends and all. I started wearing a bra way before any of the other girls did. My shoes were always bigger. I know it's genetic; my family is made up of women with big boobs and big hips and yeah, some of my relatives are definitely plus sized. I can lose weight but I'll probably still have big hips and a bra size in the range that some women see as Holy Grail-worthy.
I envy girls who have friends who wear the same size as them and can switch clothes with their friends. I hate that every time I see a new clothing store opening I have to go in and hope that their XL might fit and that maybe, maybe they'll have an XXL just in case. I hate that sizing for women isn't consistent like it is for men--any woman who has ever tried to buy jeans can attest to the fact that every single store does their own crazy version of sizing and if you wear one size in jeans/pants from one store it might be a size or more bigger or smaller at another. I hate that whenever I get it into my head that I need to get new clothes, something different or more fun than my usual battery of t-shirts and jeans, I go searching for a specific look and I rarely ever find anything that fits that idea that I can wear. I hate going to Forever 21 and seeing dozens of cute things and getting back to the Faith 21 corner and not seeing anything that looked as fun and appealing as the stuff that is everywhere else in the store.
It's weird, the more I think about how I get frustrated buying clothes, the more it makes me think about things I did growing up to try to get around that. I bought crazy amounts of jewelry and other accessories at stores like Claire's and Afterthoughts so I could layer necklaces and chokers to make outfits look cooler. I think that's also why I was really into hats for a long time. My outfit might've been boring, but at least I had on a cool hat.
Man, I did not mean to get that depressing. Anyway, look: Lacoste is coming out with special edition Peanuts polos! DO WANT.
There is nothing worse than trying on a dress and being unable to pull up the zipper. Worse when it just won't budge at all on you but when you go to zip it up when you get ready to take it back out of the dressing room and it zips just fine. Oh wait, it does get worse: said dress was $8.99 on the clearance rack. YEAH.
Which brings me to a thought:
I would really love to wear more dresses. I am not a dress girl overall, but break me out something that looks kind of retro cute (I basically want like, half the Mad Men-like dresses on Pinup Girls' website) and has sleeves (because apparently the fashion industry thinks that NOBODY LIKES SLEEVES ANYMORE and honestly this is why I wear nice dress pants and a blouse to church more often than not because none of the dresses that I like have sleeves) and I will wear it. But the thing is this: when I wear a dress or a skirt, my thighs rub together and it's uncomfortable. This has been an issue for me since I was about, oh, maybe eight or so. I can't forget the first time that I realized that it wasn't just women who, like me, have bigger thighs who have that issue. It felt like I wasn't alone in the universe, you know?
I've always been bigger. Not just size-wise, but up to a point I was taller than everyone. Until somewhere in middle school I was always the tallest of my friends and all. I started wearing a bra way before any of the other girls did. My shoes were always bigger. I know it's genetic; my family is made up of women with big boobs and big hips and yeah, some of my relatives are definitely plus sized. I can lose weight but I'll probably still have big hips and a bra size in the range that some women see as Holy Grail-worthy.
I envy girls who have friends who wear the same size as them and can switch clothes with their friends. I hate that every time I see a new clothing store opening I have to go in and hope that their XL might fit and that maybe, maybe they'll have an XXL just in case. I hate that sizing for women isn't consistent like it is for men--any woman who has ever tried to buy jeans can attest to the fact that every single store does their own crazy version of sizing and if you wear one size in jeans/pants from one store it might be a size or more bigger or smaller at another. I hate that whenever I get it into my head that I need to get new clothes, something different or more fun than my usual battery of t-shirts and jeans, I go searching for a specific look and I rarely ever find anything that fits that idea that I can wear. I hate going to Forever 21 and seeing dozens of cute things and getting back to the Faith 21 corner and not seeing anything that looked as fun and appealing as the stuff that is everywhere else in the store.
It's weird, the more I think about how I get frustrated buying clothes, the more it makes me think about things I did growing up to try to get around that. I bought crazy amounts of jewelry and other accessories at stores like Claire's and Afterthoughts so I could layer necklaces and chokers to make outfits look cooler. I think that's also why I was really into hats for a long time. My outfit might've been boring, but at least I had on a cool hat.
Man, I did not mean to get that depressing. Anyway, look: Lacoste is coming out with special edition Peanuts polos! DO WANT.
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Date: 2010-08-18 03:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-18 04:40 am (UTC)But really, I hear you. I don't even buy clothes anymore because 1. the fitting room glare makes you see zits that you thought had healed years ago, and 2. nothing fits right. I have a classic toil-in-the-fields body - tall, wide-hipped, curvy - and finding things that fit right is a royal PAIN.
BLARGH to fashion designers, really. I adopted a more formal look, mostly because I look many ways of awesome in suits.