Clothes etc.

[mrissa]

Remember the purple dress? It arrived yesterday, and it fit, so I don't have to do any more shopping before scottjames's wedding. YAY! (Also it was on sale.)

It isn't quite as I expected: the waist ties, for one thing, are not actually all that long, and the length is mid-calf, not low-calf. (I suspect we may be going with the odious "small women are tyrannosaurs and large women are gorillas" theory of limb length, as so many designers do, but as it is sleeveless and I can wear good hose, I don't care this time.) But it is a good dress, and I don't have to shop any more, so hurrah for not shopping.

I will note that the 4 is none too small on me, even on top, so for those of you who are genuinely small people, J. Peterman is another store that is Not For You. Sorry, but forewarned etc.

I fear that my hatred of clothing in the stores is starting to spread to clothing in my closets. I was halfway to the doctor yesterday when I realized, "Wait! I don't actually like this skirt at all!" Sigh. I know what happened there: this is a very old skirt, and I've worn the things I bought in that period and liked into rags already, so what's left is the lukewarm stuff. Oh hurrah.

(I miss my khaki A-line wrap skirt. It was so cute. It went with something like 80% of my summer tops. And it was comfortable, and it didn't require ironing. Sigh. Silly to miss a garment, but there you have it.)

Thanks to all of you who have commented with good wishes on yesterday's post. Much appreciated, even if I don't have something specific to say to all of them.

I'm getting birthday presents a few at a time, so that's been nice. Stretching things out. I was not feeling very good about this birthday on the actual birthday, mostly due to health issues, but my natural optimism has reasserted itself: this is a good birthday. I'm reading a birthday present now, Harald Gaski's Sami Culture in a New Era. Because the people who love me are under no illusions that I am not a great big geek, so I get presents accordingly. Which is definitely good.

Comments

[oracne.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall Land's End has a variety of khaki skirts. Perhaps not exactly what you're looking for, but they do tend to the classic and functional.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It's not that I can't find khaki skirts. It's that I can't find khaki skirts with any personality. Also, Land's End's short skirts are knee-length, and while I can deal with a knee-length skirt that's otherwise cute, a knee-length straight khaki skirt makes me feel that I have given up on life, though I don't interpret it that way on other people.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

a knee-length straight khaki skirt makes me feel that I have given up on life

Yikes! Better not get one, then.

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

Pretty much anything khaki makes me feel I've given up on life. I still have nightmares about years in retail and pleat-front khaki pants.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Word.

I had one pair of pleat-front khaki pants that I liked all right, and then all of a sudden I didn't like them at all any more at all at all at all, and no subsequent khaki pants have been acceptable.

Also pleat-front navy or black pants? are a Mrissish no. NO NO NO NO NO.

I'm trying to explain to my mom about how I'd rather have patterned black-on-black velvet or corduroy or something than just plain, but so far she doesn't really get the "given up on life" thing.

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

Somewhere out there are women who look good in pleated pant-garments. Or who at least look like women. I am not one of them. Add a tucked-in polo shirt to that, and it's not so much 'given up on life' as 'trying to end this miserable existance as soon as possible'.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Do you know how I look in pleat-front pants and a tucked-in polo shirt?

Perky.

I rest my case.

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

Pleated pants don't look good on guys, either. At least not anybody I know. So I don't know who they're made for.

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

Oh, and hooray for the dress that fits and has arrived and keeps you from having to do more shopping!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

And from having to attend your wedding in a burlap sack. Don't forget that part; it's important.

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

You know, I bet you're bluffing. I bet you don't even own a burlap sack.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

They're cheap and readily available, though, and I could send markgritter for one (One Size Fits None) to get me out of shopping.

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

Waaah. I love J Peterman's clothes -- or at least the pictures of them, but I'm an 18 top and a 16 bottom. They don't love me...

MKK

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It looks to me like there are lots of people they don't love, but of course that doesn't help.