Epic, the slimness is also a plus for me. We don't have much closet room in this house.

Since you can't return easily to a store, I'm skeptical of eShakti...but such cute stuff, and it has POCKETS!

eShakti has the option to customize with your exact measurements, if you feel like you're between sizes. I've never done it, so I don't know how the customized dresses turn out. I've read reviews that say it works well. (FTR, the one dress I have from eShakti -- the blue and white polka-dotted dress -- was really true to size and fit me perfectly. But my measurements fit into one size on the size chart.)

Steph! Thought of you this morning when I put on my new earrings:

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Purchased at the county fair, but I made sure to get her web info 'cause I also thought of you when I bought them (I believe my exact words were, "I have a friend in Ohio who would snatch these off my ears," or, y'know, something to that effect). Also have a couple of her bracelets and necklaces. All super-cute.

Those are great! (In fact, I may have just sent the link to Tim with "Birthday Present Idea" in the subject line.)

Welcome back to the fray, Epic! It's always good to see you here.

bonny, good to see you too! Menopause is a harsh mistress.

I've been feeling like crap lately. I wish I'd either get better, or go on and get sick for real so I can stop feeling like I need to power through it!

Since you can't return easily to a store, I'm skeptical of eShakti

eShakti is really easy to return things to. I had to return one shirt because the sleeves (three-quarter length with a cuff) because the cuff was too tight. I waited a little too long to get the cash/credit back, but they gave me a gift card in the amount of the return that I able to use later.

I'm not sure if I've ever returned something that required me to mail it back. Maybe once or twice.

Maybe, Windsparrow, but my diary comes out on Sunday. I mean, unless I choke a bitch. Apparently, there is no group effort small enough that there can't be Drama(and not Johnny Drama) I mean, I want it to turn out, but if I don't kill myself, maybe fifteen people will read it. If I knock myself out responding to all this pressure, wow, maybe we can get that total up to, wow, twenty-five or thirty...we have new moderators and they are very into Getting it Right. But Kosability is very much like a local bar with tight-knit regulars...it's never going to be Hooters.(and it's ironic because I think the last moderator invited a bunch of people to do stuff before they could finish Articulating their Vision or whatever, and feelings are still bruised, I guess? Really?)

Kos strikes me as someplace very concerned with the Proper Way of Doing Things, Once We Decide What's Proper.

(In fact, I may have just sent the link to Tim with "Birthday Present Idea" in the subject line.)

Aha! So my timing is also masterful!

Welcome back to the fray, Epic! It's always good to see you here.

Thanks, so great to be here!

I've been feeling like crap lately. I wish I'd either get better, or go on and get sick for real so I can stop feeling like I need to power through it!

Hate this feeling. When you feel crappy, but in a sort of undefined way so you feel like you're overindulging yourself if you acknowledge that you feel crappy or being lazy if you try to take it easy. Hope it resolves itself soon - preferably in a Feeling Better sort of way.