wherein Liz sorts dresses
Sep. 13th, 2015 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingTonight 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...
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Date: 2015-09-14 07:07 pm (UTC)The business with the turtlenecks sounds like what a friend of mine calls "going shopping in your closet." It's nice fun to find things that you'd forgotten about that you can still wear.
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Date: 2015-09-14 11:39 pm (UTC)I wore turtlenecks and mock-turtlenecks in self-defense against underheated rooms in high school, college, and a couple office jobs... but since the smoke shop was invariably overheated, I put those shirts aside for eight years. I suppose I only kept them as a talisman of maybe getting another office job again someday instead of spending the rest of my life in retail. And as it turns out, that is what has happened so hey! Apparently I can see the future! *wry*