Today's Adventures

[ysabetwordsmith]

I went out thrift shopping today.  In addition to clothes, which I was looking for, we also found a medium cooler, a cookbook, and a quilt rack.  :D

Shopping for women's tops: out of a dozen or more items, only one fit.  Most had sleeves too tight, seams in weird places, buttons that wouldn't close over my tits, hems that rode up if I raised my arms, etc.  Fuck it, I'll go see if the men's section has clothes that are less dumb.

I found several tops and several pants in the men's section, including a leaf-camouflage shirt and purple velour pants.  \o/  That also had a rack of uniform parts, which included practical pants with pockets I can fit my whole hand into.  #pocketwin!  So that was a really nice find.

I did go back to the women's section for sleepwear.  While it's much harder to find flannel now, it is much easier to find wonderful soft stretchy velour.  So I got a really nice set of pajamas and another top, both in velour, and a misfiled set of fall-colored plaid pants in a textured fabric definitely not meant for sleeping in.  The whole range of sleepwear, loungewear, leisurewear, athleisure, athletic -- and this time a new term, soft wear -- is very good for fitting bodies that aren't standard shape and/or disdain weird fashion distortions.

I'll call that a success.

Comments

[greghousesgf]

I really don't like clothes shopping. Everything is too expensive and/or too little and I can almost never find what I want in the first place.

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Exactly. I love when I can find things that I really like -- I got lucky with a few yesterday -- but often I just have to take what I can get. I imagine shopping is much for fun if one is among the actual target audience so that many things will fit and be pleasing.