Shopping can be fun?
Apr. 21st, 2007 01:23 amToday, I went shopping for new shirts, smaller-sized ones that are nice enough for work.
I actually brought myself to go into New York & Co.
And if that weren't enough, I actually bought stuff. That's right. I actually found a couple of shirts that fit me, in New York & Co.
New York & Co. is one of those places that's always been on my list of "skinny people stores," a place where I was always too fat to kid myself about shopping there. And today, I actually could.
I'm starting to see now how so many girls like to shop for clothes, to the point that it's almost a female stereotype.
For most of my life, shopping has been a chore, something I dreaded, an occasion for depression at how I can't find anything, I'm too fat for everything, nothing fits me well. Shopping for clothes has always been a struggle -- it's always felt like stores purposefully make larger people feel fat and frumpy through the meager selection of plus-size clothes they offer. Most times in the past, shopping was a long, painful ordeal, many stores visited, few items actually bought, the kind of thing where if you find one thing that actually fits you and looks passably decent, you snap it up, 'cause it's hard to come by something wearable.
But lately, it's been totally different. Today, for instance, I went into three stores, including one that was previously off-limits to me, and in all three stores, I picked up a few things in my size, I tried them on, a couple of times I went back for a size up (stretchy material still clings a bit too much sometimes), but ultimately, I came, I picked out, I bought. It wasn't a struggle to find things in sizes I might fit into. On top of that, it wasn't hard to find things that actually looked good, things in up-to-date styles and trendy prints.
Today's trip might have ended with me buying one passable-but-not-that-great-looking shirt if it had taken place a few years ago. But now, I came away today with no less than seven shirts, four of which are definitely nice enough for work wear.
Shopping is so much more fun when you can find fashionable clothes in your size, when you have big sections of stores to shop from, filled with nice-looking stuff, not to mention a wider array of possible stores to go to, instead of being limited to tiny corners of major department stores with sparse groupings of frumpy, dowdy crap, or else Lane Bryant, which I've always been just a little too small for -- while they are the best, most fashionable option for plus-sized women, half of their stuff requires a gigantic rack to pull off.
I actually brought myself to go into New York & Co.
And if that weren't enough, I actually bought stuff. That's right. I actually found a couple of shirts that fit me, in New York & Co.
New York & Co. is one of those places that's always been on my list of "skinny people stores," a place where I was always too fat to kid myself about shopping there. And today, I actually could.
I'm starting to see now how so many girls like to shop for clothes, to the point that it's almost a female stereotype.
For most of my life, shopping has been a chore, something I dreaded, an occasion for depression at how I can't find anything, I'm too fat for everything, nothing fits me well. Shopping for clothes has always been a struggle -- it's always felt like stores purposefully make larger people feel fat and frumpy through the meager selection of plus-size clothes they offer. Most times in the past, shopping was a long, painful ordeal, many stores visited, few items actually bought, the kind of thing where if you find one thing that actually fits you and looks passably decent, you snap it up, 'cause it's hard to come by something wearable.
But lately, it's been totally different. Today, for instance, I went into three stores, including one that was previously off-limits to me, and in all three stores, I picked up a few things in my size, I tried them on, a couple of times I went back for a size up (stretchy material still clings a bit too much sometimes), but ultimately, I came, I picked out, I bought. It wasn't a struggle to find things in sizes I might fit into. On top of that, it wasn't hard to find things that actually looked good, things in up-to-date styles and trendy prints.
Today's trip might have ended with me buying one passable-but-not-that-great-looking shirt if it had taken place a few years ago. But now, I came away today with no less than seven shirts, four of which are definitely nice enough for work wear.
Shopping is so much more fun when you can find fashionable clothes in your size, when you have big sections of stores to shop from, filled with nice-looking stuff, not to mention a wider array of possible stores to go to, instead of being limited to tiny corners of major department stores with sparse groupings of frumpy, dowdy crap, or else Lane Bryant, which I've always been just a little too small for -- while they are the best, most fashionable option for plus-sized women, half of their stuff requires a gigantic rack to pull off.
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