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chhotiiToday I was determined to buy some new clothes. I went to the Burlington Mall (always a mistake). I spent, probably, about 3 to 4 hours there, and came away with only a pair of leggings and an utterly demolished morale. Note, I don't even have anything to wear the leggings with. They just looked like a great pair of leggings, so I hoped to find something they would go with. You can't just wear leggings if you have nothing that goes with leggings. There was one dress on a sale rack at Macy's that I liked (not that it would have gone with the leggings, but I liked it on its own merits) but it was most definitely the wrong size.
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Date: 2013-11-17 12:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-17 12:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-17 01:29 am (UTC)I've had luck recently at J Jill (my guess is that you're an XS-petite there), and Lord and Taylor for dressier things. And I'm still a proponent of online shopping; it's worth finding a place that makes things that fit you right. (Eddie Bauer, Blakeley or Curvy cut pants for me.)
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Date: 2013-11-17 04:24 pm (UTC)Hilarious true story: Once I went to a clothing swap and the item I brought to get rid of was a pair of size 8P jeans from Eddie Bauer. I didn't think there was any hope of ever being the right size and shape to be happy in those pants. What I went home with, my completely delightful find from that very same clothing swap that day, was... a different pair of size 8P jeans from Eddie Bauer, which are still, like, my favorite pair of jeans. Go figure.
Now, this illustrates how difficult pants are. On the other hand, I am happy with socks I bought over the Internet. I should buy more panties over the Internet. Might as well buy bras over the Internet, as I don't really know whether they will work after trying them on in the dressing room anyway, so I think I just have to waste a lot of money buying bras that I wear once to find the 1 in 4 pairs I do wear over and over. (Plus stores don't typically carry weird sizes.) Belts should be easy to size (yay for one 1-dimensional item). Shirts, yeah, sure, should be straightforward to stock up on over the Internet, I guess.
But, dresses and skirts, though, I'm frustrated trying to tell what they would really look like at full-size based on the little teeny tiny pictures I see on my computer screen. And of course pants are impossible.
But... the real kicker is that I see things in pictures in catalogs that look great on the model who probably has a BMI of 18 and then I'm disappointed at how they look on my body, which is not actually shaped like a wire coat-hanger. Very, very, very disappointed. I don't know how to get over or around this problem.
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Date: 2013-11-17 03:38 am (UTC)Can I tempt you?
Date: 2013-11-17 05:28 am (UTC)For reference, I wear an 8P in their curvy cut. My guess is that you're a size smaller, but not sure which cut would fit you... But with free returns, go to town, order pants in all their cuts, figure out what fits you.
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Date: 2013-11-17 11:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-17 11:52 pm (UTC)BTW are you still thinking of having a clothing swap? gosling and I are getting so desperate for a clothing swap that last night we were trying to imagine a clothing swap in either her apartment or my apartment, neither of which are the least bit suitable.
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Date: 2013-11-18 12:25 am (UTC)When I get the info about the consultant from my client (I just emailed her to ask for the info for another client), I'll send it your way.
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Date: 2013-11-18 12:59 am (UTC)Need help hosting the clothing swap? I wish I could host one, I just don't have suitable real estate.
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Date: 2013-11-22 11:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-22 11:52 pm (UTC)Will you have your daughter that weekend? She likes Sophia, and the girls are likely to keep each other amused and thus, presumably, less under-foot, so that may influence whether I bring Sophia or try to leave her at Grandma's.
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Date: 2013-11-26 10:15 pm (UTC)I don't think I'm going to have her that weekend, but it's kind of weird with the school holiday, so I'm not 100% sure.
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Date: 2013-11-27 12:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-26 10:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-27 12:09 pm (UTC)Maybe post a reminder? Maybe LJ too? I have no idea what your following is on Facebook. I have tons of size 7/8 girls' clothing to bring.
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Date: 2013-12-27 01:21 pm (UTC)I am waffling about whether I should cancel. I've had a stomach virus since Monday. I'm feeling almost healthy today, but people have been saying one is contagious for days afterwards. I guess I can let people take their chances. I also posted on the FB event to ask for helpers, and no one responded.
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Date: 2013-11-18 08:52 pm (UTC)I also avoid the mall unless I have a carefully pre-planned strike organized. There's a cool tapas place in there now, however.