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[chhotii]

Today 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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[quietann.livejournal.com]

It probably doesn't help that petite sizes are getting harder to find.

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.)

[chhotii.livejournal.com]

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.