Shopping

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-15-2004
Shopping
59
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.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-15-2004
In reply to: gymrat76
Mon, 07-25-2005 - 1:57pm
No I'm not kidding....at a Thanksgiving party at preschool one of the moms shows up with a bebe t shirt and it says BEBE in rhinestones.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-20-2003
In reply to: gymrat76
Mon, 07-25-2005 - 2:06pm
Well, it's not ONLY for the young and hip but the target market is for younger people. The designers obviously have a different mindset than those designing for Talbots, and I'd guess they're not thinking of middle aged moms. Just because a target market is one group doesn't mean it won't appeal to others--I see people wearing FUBU often enough just because they like the clothes.





iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: gymrat76
Mon, 07-25-2005 - 2:14pm

You wrote:

~Kiervin~

Co-author of:  MONSTER'S INK HORROR ANTHOLOGY By Cyber-Pulp Press

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-11-2004
In reply to: gymrat76
Mon, 07-25-2005 - 3:34pm

i don't think those kind of clothes are for anyone! call me a square.


but there are a lot of juniors clothes that aren't like that. i'm wearing a pair of junior's Dickies today and they hit exactly where i like pants to hit - about 2 inches below the bellybutton and 2 inches above the hip bone.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-11-2004
In reply to: gymrat76
Mon, 07-25-2005 - 3:48pm

i don't think undone was making a comment that all housewives are "stepford" or desperate. i think she was commenting on a very particular kind of housewife that she sees a lot who seem to have a lot in common with the women on the show Desperate Housewives and who wear flashy, tight, some would say "slutty," clothing and generally make an inappropriate (in undone's view) spectacle of themselves.


personally, i think people should wear whatever the heck they want to wear, but as catty comments go, i think that was pretty harmless. especially since she herself is a SAHM with large breasts - i think people definitely deserve a lot more leeway when they are criticizing a group of which they themselves are a member... like how it's ok for gay guys to call each other queer, and how i feel perfectly entitled to say that i think judaism is a whack religion.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-15-2004
In reply to: gymrat76
Mon, 07-25-2005 - 4:18pm

I agree. Well said.

I think we all make off-the-cuff remarks here and if we have to start worrying about offending this person or that person, the board becomes an uncomfortable (read: not fun) place to be. I don't think any of us are hateful or spiteful people and since the same core group is pretty much always present, I think we should feel okay about expressing our feelings, be they politically correct or not.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-20-2003
In reply to: gymrat76
Mon, 07-25-2005 - 4:53pm
Maybe it's because I shop there w/ my nieces and that's what they pick out so I don't see the other stuff!





iVillage Member
Registered: 03-11-2004
In reply to: gymrat76
Mon, 07-25-2005 - 5:04pm

yes, they still make Dickies and i have no idea what they were like 20 years ago but from what i THINK they were like (which is basically men's workpants - like for mechanics or factory workers) they still make workclothes but now they also make more "fashion" clothes that take classic Dickies style and sort of meld it to intentionally market to hipsters (as opposed to back in the day when Dickies were marketed as working clothes and the hipsters/punks just co-opted the clothes for themselves).


http://dickiesgirl.com/

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-20-2003
In reply to: gymrat76
Mon, 07-25-2005 - 5:09pm

Did you ever see that Seinfeld where the comedian became Jewish so he could make jokes about it? Seinfeld was upset because he thought the guy hadn't been Jewish long enough to make jokes about it.


I joke about stepford wives because it hits so close to home.






iVillage Member
Registered: 03-15-2004
In reply to: gymrat76
Mon, 07-25-2005 - 5:14pm
Hahahahaha.... :)