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| Fri, 07-22-2005 - 3:21pm |
I didn't really want to go shopping this morning. Mostly because I have avoided shopping over the last couple of years because I've been so unhappy with my body and shopping was no longer fun. But, I figured I needed to face reality and just go do it.
It's funny... even with my compression garment on and stuff mostly smoothed out, I STILL had trouble buying clothes. Things just didn't look right or hang right or whatever. *sigh* I did manage to come home with two pairs of pants and two shirts. I splurged and bought myself the most badass looking pair of athletic shoes I could find though. :) Loud crazy shoes make me happy. I also got a gift for a client that's been training with me for a year.
I am slowly remembering that weight has so little to do with shopping. Clothes are just not cut for people who have any sort of womanly curves whatsoever.

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I don't mean to sound like a snob...but higher end clothing lines tend to fit better....Ann Taylor always looks better on me, like I took the clothes to be custom tailored..and believe me girlfriend I am no waif!
Just to throw in my 2 cents. I am not curvy- I never will be, because of my bone structure. My hips are very narrow and I am short-waisted. I cannot fill out the pants at many stores, because of this. I generally have luck with pants at more expensive places- I have a great pair of pants from BCBG that I got on sale. But as a grad student, I can't afford to shop at stores like that very often. And performance/athletic wear seems to be cut for women a lot larger than myself. At REI for example- their own line of sportswear plus many of the other brands they carry are just too big, tops and bottoms. Even in the x-small. And honestly, I'm not freakishly small, so I don't know who they're designing their clothes for. I had to buy bike shorts from the kids section.
Well, peeing standing up is a matter of how clean the bathrooms are...
I'd just settle for a uniform size!
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