I'm not fretting, just baffled. Also mildly annoyed, because I vaguely remember a period in the early '90s when women's sizes seemed fairly stable and it was possible to go to the rack labeled with your size, grab a bunch of stuff, and be reasonably certain it'd all fit when you went into the dressing room. Now there's the long and laborious hunt through "Size I maybe think I am" with additional expeditions into the two or three sizes on either side of the maybe size because the numbers are such a meaningless crapshoot.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JZ - Sep 12, 2006 2:18:44 pm PDT #7715 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Glamcookie - Sep 12, 2006 2:19:15 pm PDT #7716 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I've always been somewhere between a 6 and an 8, though lately leaning more toward a solid 8. I'm about 5'6". I would be okay with this, but I know I need to exercise more and stop eating so much crap. If I were a toned and fit 8, no problem. But I'm so not.
Aims - Sep 12, 2006 2:20:02 pm PDT #7717 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I figure, why work to be a size 10? One day, I'll just buy a whole new body and have mt head attached to it.
flea - Sep 12, 2006 2:20:55 pm PDT #7718 of 10001
information libertarian
I bought 2 pants and 1 skirt at Target recently. All the same brand (Merona). The pants are both 10s and snug, and I bought a 6 in the skirt and should have bought a 4. SAME BRAND!!!
P.M. Marc - Sep 12, 2006 2:20:58 pm PDT #7719 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Seriously. Although my most unfavorite size was busting-out-of-14. "Regular" sized clothes were too small, plus size were too big.
I'm glad I skipped straight to occasionally falling out of 14 in my shopping this time. (Which, seriously, makes me realize I need to actually try shit on. Or buy belts. Or just move slowly and hope for the best.) Because that stage drives me batty.
Glamcookie - Sep 12, 2006 2:22:31 pm PDT #7720 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Aims, you can't be 5'6" cause you're taller than me and PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME BE SHORTER THAN 5'6"!!!!
Aims - Sep 12, 2006 2:23:20 pm PDT #7721 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I'm 5' 6 1/4"...
Does that help??
§ ita § - Sep 12, 2006 2:24:50 pm PDT #7722 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't mind my size at all, I just wish I could take all my clothes with me as I bounced up and down the size chart. I'm not throwing shit out, because life has taught me nothing if not that I can't stay any given size on purpose, but I hate looking at that red skirt and knowing I'm three months of kettlebell and some Elavil past being able to wear it.
For now.
I do have at least one skirt I bought in a 4 and a 6 (different colours--I figured I'd mix it up), and I may just keep doing stuff like that.
Glamcookie - Sep 12, 2006 2:25:06 pm PDT #7723 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Realistically, I guess I'm closer to 5'5".
t pout
bon bon - Sep 12, 2006 2:25:19 pm PDT #7724 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME BE SHORTER THAN 5'6"!!!!
Is 5'6" short?