Alumette
05-15-2005, 09:02 PM
...or: I have no idea what size I am. By Alumette.
Arg. How does *anyone* find clothes? Allow me this little rant, please.
I have always had a hard time finding clothes that fit, particularly jeans. I'm very petite (5' 2") and as such usually have to buy capri-length pants in order to have pants that aren't too long (stop laughing), even when I shop at the petite stores. What are capris on other people are normal length for me. <sigh>
The funny thing is, I talk to my taller girlfriends and they always complain that the pants are never long enough. So my question is, who the hell is buying all these pants that they keep making, if they're either too long or too short for everyone I know?
Also, I have a terrible time finding anything that fits me in the waist. I have a small waist, but I also have this huge J.Lo. So any jeans that fit over the junk in my trunk usually end up being huge in the waist. Thankfully low-rise jeans mitigate this somewhat, because they're worn on the hips, but still. <sigh>
I finally found two pairs of jeans that fit and that I actually feel kinda sexy in. But what's funny is, here I thought I was going to be going to a size 0 since my size 2 jeans are unattractively baggy on me, and I ended up going to a size 4 because I had to find a different brand (the jeans I was trying to replace don't exist in a 0). So what the heck size am I, anyway?
I did find a flirty fitted spaghetti-strap midriff-length turquoise tanktop to go with the jeans, though. That made me happy. And I do love my new jeans. It was just a lot of work to find them.
And it occurred to me, it's not my body that's screwed up, it's the fashion industry. If every woman I know, of every size and shape, has complained about finding clothes that fit, then they must only be making clothes for that bizarre segment of the population that is built like a seamstress's mannequin.
Arg. How does *anyone* find clothes? Allow me this little rant, please.
I have always had a hard time finding clothes that fit, particularly jeans. I'm very petite (5' 2") and as such usually have to buy capri-length pants in order to have pants that aren't too long (stop laughing), even when I shop at the petite stores. What are capris on other people are normal length for me. <sigh>
The funny thing is, I talk to my taller girlfriends and they always complain that the pants are never long enough. So my question is, who the hell is buying all these pants that they keep making, if they're either too long or too short for everyone I know?
Also, I have a terrible time finding anything that fits me in the waist. I have a small waist, but I also have this huge J.Lo. So any jeans that fit over the junk in my trunk usually end up being huge in the waist. Thankfully low-rise jeans mitigate this somewhat, because they're worn on the hips, but still. <sigh>
I finally found two pairs of jeans that fit and that I actually feel kinda sexy in. But what's funny is, here I thought I was going to be going to a size 0 since my size 2 jeans are unattractively baggy on me, and I ended up going to a size 4 because I had to find a different brand (the jeans I was trying to replace don't exist in a 0). So what the heck size am I, anyway?
I did find a flirty fitted spaghetti-strap midriff-length turquoise tanktop to go with the jeans, though. That made me happy. And I do love my new jeans. It was just a lot of work to find them.
And it occurred to me, it's not my body that's screwed up, it's the fashion industry. If every woman I know, of every size and shape, has complained about finding clothes that fit, then they must only be making clothes for that bizarre segment of the population that is built like a seamstress's mannequin.