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evalerie, I now have a dress that will do for my cousin's wedding in August. It's a better choice than anything else I own (or I wouldn't have bought it), but it's far from perfect.
The reasons I say it's far from perfect are (a) it's too long, (b) it's backless, (c) it shows rather large parts of my breasts and (d) there's a double line of elastic at the 'waist' that doesn't hit quite right. I'm going to ask my mother-in-law to help with the too long part. If she can't, I'll just walk very, very carefully, but I think she'll be able to.
Still, it's a good color. I'm not going to fall out of it or be unable to breathe. Scott loves it. It's comfortable (apart from the psychological hesitations). It's workable for an August wedding that may or may not be in a place with air conditioning. Plus it was only $25. I can still look for something better, but I'm covered if I can't get out shopping again or shop and can't find anything, and of the three things in the store that were vaguely my size and not hideous, it was the only one that fit.
I just wish I could get past the idea that my mother-in-law will look at it and freak out. I don't know that she will, but I fear it. I feel too old and too fat to wear something cut like this.
We also stopped at the PTO Thrift Shop to see if they had any dressy dresses in my size. They didn't, but I did get a denim jumper that will work reasonably well summer and winter. I also got a couple of CDs, a t-shirt, a dress for Cordelia, a hat for Cordelia and a doll, a book and a ten cent bracelet for Cordelia.
I coveted a silk bathrobe with gorgeous embroidery, but it was too small for me. The tag said XL, but I think it was on a different size scale than I'm used to. The tags were in both English and Chinese. I couldn't tell if the embroidery was by hand or not, but I didn't care. Still, I couldn't justify $20 for something that I wouldn't be able to wear. I did call my mother to see if she thought she or my sister, L., would wear it. They're close to my height but skinnier, so it might fit them. Sadly, neither would wear it.
By the time we were done at the thrift shop, I was done in. I could have spent more time there. There was an entire room that we didn't get to. I would, however, have been running on sheer stubbornness. (I do that when I'm in the middle of something that I can't easily get back to. I'm determined to make sure I get everything possible out of it.)
We had talked about stopping at the Produce Station which is quite near the PTO Thrift Shop, to get some plant for my raised beds, but I was too tired. I probably could have stubborned through it, but it would have been hugely unwise. I don't need new winter savory plants that badly.
Scott and I were both sufficiently exhausted that we did carry out for dinner. Otherwise there wouldn't have been dinner.
evalerie, I now have a dress that will do for my cousin's wedding in August. It's a better choice than anything else I own (or I wouldn't have bought it), but it's far from perfect.The reasons I say it's far from perfect are (a) it's too long, (b) it's backless, (c) it shows rather large parts of my breasts and (d) there's a double line of elastic at the 'waist' that doesn't hit quite right. I'm going to ask my mother-in-law to help with the too long part. If she can't, I'll just walk very, very carefully, but I think she'll be able to.
Still, it's a good color. I'm not going to fall out of it or be unable to breathe. Scott loves it. It's comfortable (apart from the psychological hesitations). It's workable for an August wedding that may or may not be in a place with air conditioning. Plus it was only $25. I can still look for something better, but I'm covered if I can't get out shopping again or shop and can't find anything, and of the three things in the store that were vaguely my size and not hideous, it was the only one that fit.
I just wish I could get past the idea that my mother-in-law will look at it and freak out. I don't know that she will, but I fear it. I feel too old and too fat to wear something cut like this.
We also stopped at the PTO Thrift Shop to see if they had any dressy dresses in my size. They didn't, but I did get a denim jumper that will work reasonably well summer and winter. I also got a couple of CDs, a t-shirt, a dress for Cordelia, a hat for Cordelia and a doll, a book and a ten cent bracelet for Cordelia.
I coveted a silk bathrobe with gorgeous embroidery, but it was too small for me. The tag said XL, but I think it was on a different size scale than I'm used to. The tags were in both English and Chinese. I couldn't tell if the embroidery was by hand or not, but I didn't care. Still, I couldn't justify $20 for something that I wouldn't be able to wear. I did call my mother to see if she thought she or my sister, L., would wear it. They're close to my height but skinnier, so it might fit them. Sadly, neither would wear it.
By the time we were done at the thrift shop, I was done in. I could have spent more time there. There was an entire room that we didn't get to. I would, however, have been running on sheer stubbornness. (I do that when I'm in the middle of something that I can't easily get back to. I'm determined to make sure I get everything possible out of it.)
We had talked about stopping at the Produce Station which is quite near the PTO Thrift Shop, to get some plant for my raised beds, but I was too tired. I probably could have stubborned through it, but it would have been hugely unwise. I don't need new winter savory plants that badly.
Scott and I were both sufficiently exhausted that we did carry out for dinner. Otherwise there wouldn't have been dinner.
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Date: 2009-07-08 04:46 pm (UTC)A silk scarf, worn over one's shoulders like a shawl, can make a person feel somewhat less exposed. Or you could just wear your hair down...I know that would *feel* exposed, but your hair covers quite a lot.
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Date: 2009-07-08 09:17 pm (UTC)I'm not sure my hair will cover my sides. I'm more worried about the amount of breast exposed than I am about any other part of it.
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Date: 2009-07-09 01:14 am (UTC)I thought the denim jumper was particularly fabulous. I'm happy to go bopping around shopping again sometime soon.
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Date: 2009-07-09 08:12 pm (UTC)I wouldn't mind going around again in a couple of weeks. Next week is taken up by the trip to my grandmother's. I'd be interested in looking around resale shops for dresses and for shawls.
The awful thing is that I suspect that we have a shawl squirreled away in the basement somewhere. I just don't know where exactly and am in too much pain to do more than think a little about looking.