Elizabeth Culmer (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
edenfalling) wrote2015-09-13 09:20 pm
edenfalling) wrote2015-09-13 09:20 pm
wherein Liz sorts dresses
Tonight I tried on all my dresses (except for the one I knew I wasn't keeping, because I only bought it for Cat's wedding lo these many years ago and I never much liked it) and it turns out only two of them fit anymore. Which is not hugely surprising; bodies change as one gets older. In particular, my boobs do not seem to get smaller even when I otherwise get my weight down to my ideal range. *sigh*
I was expecting one of the survivors -- it is a dress I bought mail order a few years back because it looked both pretty and comfortable, which turned out to be true in practice as well as theory -- but the other was a surprise. I mean, it would seem logical for more recent dresses to fit better, yes? And yet, my second surviving fancy dress is the one I bought when I was fourteen years old, for a high school winter formal dance. All hail elastic, I suppose!
I also pruned three long-sleeved shirts from my other closet, but ended up giving the rest a temporary pass. See, the reason I haven't worn some of them in ages is because they are turtlenecks and those would have left me hideously overheated at the smoke shop. And since I was out of the habit of wearing them, I forgot to see how they worked in an office setting last winter at Not the IRS. So I will give them a try this winter and decide their fates based on actual real-life performance. Considering I was wearing an outdoor scarf indoors most of the time to keep my neck from freezing, I think they might do fairly well...
I was expecting one of the survivors -- it is a dress I bought mail order a few years back because it looked both pretty and comfortable, which turned out to be true in practice as well as theory -- but the other was a surprise. I mean, it would seem logical for more recent dresses to fit better, yes? And yet, my second surviving fancy dress is the one I bought when I was fourteen years old, for a high school winter formal dance. All hail elastic, I suppose!
I also pruned three long-sleeved shirts from my other closet, but ended up giving the rest a temporary pass. See, the reason I haven't worn some of them in ages is because they are turtlenecks and those would have left me hideously overheated at the smoke shop. And since I was out of the habit of wearing them, I forgot to see how they worked in an office setting last winter at Not the IRS. So I will give them a try this winter and decide their fates based on actual real-life performance. Considering I was wearing an outdoor scarf indoors most of the time to keep my neck from freezing, I think they might do fairly well...