A friend of mine recently gave in to the pressure of blogs and got one of her own (I would post a link here but I think it's a secret blog, if you know what I mean). Anyway, she posted a blog about how she'd gone shopping and ran into a little old lady who had her arms in the air and was asking for help.
Turns out she'd tried on a dress that was missmarked and it got stuck as she was trying to remove it - arms in the air. As women, we know how this works. We can fit in a size 5 with one cut and in another we do good to fit in the size 9. There's little, if any, consistency to how women's clothes are cut. And that's just how it is.
It reminded me of when I was married and my then husband had put on some weight. He'd always liked his jeans tight so he was having a difficult time getting them on with the additional weight. I finally had to raise the subject that maybe he needed a bigger size pants. OMG, he balked at that in a major way. "The pants shrunk," he wailed. "You've had them for years but they didn't shrink until now?" I argued back.
We went back an forth until I finally convinced him to try a larger size. I drag him (kicking and screaming I might add) to the department store and select the next size up in jeans (for men, that's their waist size - pants length stayed the same) and point him in the direction of the dressing rooms.
He comes out a few minutes later, the jeans all but cutting off the circulation to the lower half of his body and says, "They're cut small."
Yeah, 'cause that's how it works.
2 comments:
LOL! Can't tell you the number of times I've had to admit that my pants weren't shrinking and concede to the "next size up."
Darn dh--weighs what he did in HS. I have to buy him new clothes, or else he still wears those old fashions. Ugh!
Neither Dh or I wear the same size when we were dating. Funny thing is, he's not gaining fat weight he's gaining muscle weight and his pants get tight around the thighs and he hates that.
I use to wear tight waisted Rockies--western jeans, but then I had four kids and now I wear the most wonderful brand called Aura by Wrangler. Ahh, talk about heaven--fitted in the right places and cut the same way for every pair of jean and slack.
And yes, I hate what one designer deems a certain size another does not. And why is it that our dress size is always a size or two smaller than our jean size? No one has been able to explain that to me.
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