The Wordsmith's Forge

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.

I stumbled across this while looking for something else.  The Vermont Apron Company makes aprons for a variety of practical purposes.  I'm not sure if all of them have pockets, but most visibly do.  I call your attention to the gathering aprons.  I remember these -- something I've made in many lives when I got tired of tying my shirt up to hold things.  They have sizes from XS to 5X, plus children, and their models include genuinely party-size people not just average-size-14, so there should be something for almost everyone.

What they don't have, and I had to hunt elsewhere, is an egg-gathering apron.  This type has many small pockets.  It is essential to put elastic around the top, so the eggs don't fall out when you bend down to reach a new one, although almost all the pictures I saw had none.  So if you buy, be careful to look for that feature.