clothes shopping... or how to make the fat girl feel fatter
I need jeans. I think I am down to one pair of black and one pair of brown jeans.
With this in mind I went looking for jeans for a little while yesterday. After cringing at the price at one place, and cringing at the selection elsewhere I decided that I was going to see what wal mart had to offer after dancing.
So I walk in wearing size 24 jeans, and they are slightly loose even. So of course the first size I try is the size I'm wearing.
No Luck.
Disappointed, I go back and grab the next size up. I mean differeneces in manufacturers and cuts can sometimes do that.
Back to the changing room.
No Luck.
Now I'm upset. I don't even bother going up to the next size. I may just have to pay at the one place (lane bryant). I mean no clothing manufacturer can expect me to swallow that I've gone up 2 or more sizes than the one I'm wearing. Besides that even finding anything in the next larger size is next to impossible at wal mart.
But what rubbish. I wish that there were an industry standard of some sort, not whatever the manufacturers feel like making the size. Or maybe they need to revamp the entire way that women's clothing is done. I mean men have a waistline and inseam measurement. Those are pretty hard to mess with without changing how long an inch is. But women's clothing is some arbitrary number that has almost no correlation to an actual size anymore.
Maybe I should just start buying men's jeans. Not only could they not mess with the numbers without my body actually changing, but I might actually get some quality jeans instead of the crap that they pawn off on women.
With this in mind I went looking for jeans for a little while yesterday. After cringing at the price at one place, and cringing at the selection elsewhere I decided that I was going to see what wal mart had to offer after dancing.
So I walk in wearing size 24 jeans, and they are slightly loose even. So of course the first size I try is the size I'm wearing.
No Luck.
Disappointed, I go back and grab the next size up. I mean differeneces in manufacturers and cuts can sometimes do that.
Back to the changing room.
No Luck.
Now I'm upset. I don't even bother going up to the next size. I may just have to pay at the one place (lane bryant). I mean no clothing manufacturer can expect me to swallow that I've gone up 2 or more sizes than the one I'm wearing. Besides that even finding anything in the next larger size is next to impossible at wal mart.
But what rubbish. I wish that there were an industry standard of some sort, not whatever the manufacturers feel like making the size. Or maybe they need to revamp the entire way that women's clothing is done. I mean men have a waistline and inseam measurement. Those are pretty hard to mess with without changing how long an inch is. But women's clothing is some arbitrary number that has almost no correlation to an actual size anymore.
Maybe I should just start buying men's jeans. Not only could they not mess with the numbers without my body actually changing, but I might actually get some quality jeans instead of the crap that they pawn off on women.
posted by Phoenixwaller | 3:43 PM
1 Comments:
Amen.
I was a 1x last year at (*cough*) Target, but they put so much damn spandex into even the simplest t-shirt this year that I couldn't wear a 3x.
Okay, sure, they're fattening us for slaughter at my new job, but that's just harsh.
(And why doesn't Lane Bryant sell anything that isn't polyester? Synthetics are gross -- seriously, if my nose is right, they're extra-hospitable to bacteria.)
rant rant rant
Maybe men's jeans wouldn't be that bad an idea. They might not be saggy in the ass, gappy at the pockets, or built to accomodate someone else's saddlebags. And even if they were all those things, at least they'd be $35 instead of $75.
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