Finding clothes that fit right and look good is SOOO subtle and tricky that I can't imagine on-line shopping for clothes. It seems like it would be a huge waste of time for me-- ordering all this stuff that might work and doesn't and then dealing with the returns.
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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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.