Because I did not feel sufficiently suicidal after events I will not blog about, I decided to do a bit of clothes shopping.
I am, in the best of euphemistic times. . . curvy. Currently I am positively zaftig.
Shopping with a UK size 14/16 ass is challenging normally but during The Sales, it just sucks. Sales by definition means most of the good stuff is gone and anything that is decent is not in your size.
It doesn’t help that I also hate most of the High Street fashion that is out there. Even on a slim woman I think the silhouette is hideous. It looks like the worse of the 80’s had a bastard child with the worse of the 60’s. Xanadu meets Twiggy with a Flashdance aesthetic.
Even Jigsaw, which I usually like, had a huge case of the uglies. Is it just me? Am I being grumpy? It’s possible I may be transferring my anger that I look like an East German Olympian onto the clothes.
Here are a few off the offerings from the TopShop website that are not even on sale.
Yeah. I’m not wrong. They’re just ugly.
The fact I can’t fit in them just makes it worse.
July 30th, 2008 at 2:59 am
OMG - I understand exactly. May I also throw in that I am also…. let’s say, voluptuous, with a case of “Sadie, Sadie the hot lunch lady” arms - I do not understand why plus size clothing is mostly sleeveless?!? Why can’t anyone make a nice 3/4 sleeve, cute blouse!