Google's fine for me.

I went shopping and scored $20 dress pants at Ann Taylor that fit really nicely in my first ten minutes. And then spent the next 2 hours in consumer despair. Nordstrom Rack was the worst. Who WEARS those drapey things, and why don't they have any PANTS?

Unfortunately the dress pants don't go with either of my blazers, but still! $20!

Even though I'm not religious, I love this photo from my parents' wedding:

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Also, note how huge my dad's hands are--way bigger than mine, and with much thicker fingers too.

Nordstrom Rack was the worst. Who WEARS those drapey things, and why don't they have any PANTS?

Aaaaaaaalllll the faux-hemian hipsters of Seattle, and they wear leggings instead. I personally know maybe three people that the drapey things look good on, everyone else looks like the return rack at a thrift store decided to go for a walk.

I theoretically like drapey and leggings! Comfortable and loungey.

I don't look good in it. I'm more of a wrap dress sort of person.

This is cool if you like this sort of thing:

Pictures: World War II "Time Capsule" Fighter Found in Sahara

Recently discovered in Egypt by an oil-exploration team, a World War II fighter plane called "the aviation equivalent of Tutankhamun's tomb" bears the scars of 70 years in the Sahara desert—but is nevertheless considered to be in "time capsule" condition.

"I've never seen anything like it," said Ian Thirsk, head of collections at the Royal Air Force (RAF) Museum in London. The Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk is "the best preserved example of a Second World War aircraft I've seen for many, many years."

The plane's pilot is thought to have been Flt. Sgt. Dennis Copping, though no trace of his body has been found at the crash site.

Some cool pictures.

I also theoretically like drapey and leggings on other people (it looks horrible on me), but most of the people I run into who wear that are also so, so over everything, darling, and full of ironic ennui. And also usually are into the nu-goth thing, which fills my ElderGoth heart with get off my cemetery lawn, dammit! Shoo! rage.

Well, and if you were down the street, I'd swing by and try it on--it might fit. But likely enough it wouldn't.

This is the problem! Stupid mail-order clothes. (Whether from the catalog or from me!)

Yeah, that drapey stuff just doesn't work for us middle-aged types. I need structure!

Yeah, I'm looking at some seriously cute dresses from "I Heart My Closet" (on etsy), and they do custom, but I'm worried that (a) I would measure wrong and get something that doesn't fit great or (b) it would fit fine...but look all wrong on me, since the model is, y'know, model-sized and I am not.