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06-12-2008, 07:12 PM
I assume this is the kind of place we can just post things like this? :confused:
I seem to be having a problem with clothing sizes in stores at the moment. Without putting too finer point on it, I'm not morbidly obese - all 105lbs of me would probably fit into the average size airline case. Needless to say, today's shopping expedition was just depressing.
To set the scene, being finished with Uni it was a nice Saturday to do the Harbour Town/Ikea route with my girls. After the third or fourth dress shop I started to get a little bored of telling other people how nice or not they looked in what they were trying on, so I decided to look for some clothes of my own. Not a wise idea, apparently.
I found a rather nice looking t-shirt purporting to be a size Small, when I tried it on I discovered it could easily fit a ringmaster, lion tamer, lion, elephant, trapeze act, clowns and mini as well as a crowd to rival the Entertainment Centre at full capacity. Moving on to the next store I found a nice lot of supposedly small shirts shaped like potato sacks, not being fussy but if I wear something it needs to have some shape - I'm not a packing crate and I refuse to dress as such. The next store looked promising, until I noticed the colours. Myself not being a hi-lighter pen, they didnt really suit my complexion.
And so it continued in a neat cycle of clothing being either designed for those the size and shape of Jupiter or in colours that make Joseph's technicolour dreamcoat look like a Zebra costume. The basic reason I'm posting all of this, apart from getting it all off my chest, is I still have no idea where in Adelaide I am meant to get clothes that I can actually wear. Can anybody give me any suggestions? I've run out of ideas! :confused:
I seem to be having a problem with clothing sizes in stores at the moment. Without putting too finer point on it, I'm not morbidly obese - all 105lbs of me would probably fit into the average size airline case. Needless to say, today's shopping expedition was just depressing.
To set the scene, being finished with Uni it was a nice Saturday to do the Harbour Town/Ikea route with my girls. After the third or fourth dress shop I started to get a little bored of telling other people how nice or not they looked in what they were trying on, so I decided to look for some clothes of my own. Not a wise idea, apparently.
I found a rather nice looking t-shirt purporting to be a size Small, when I tried it on I discovered it could easily fit a ringmaster, lion tamer, lion, elephant, trapeze act, clowns and mini as well as a crowd to rival the Entertainment Centre at full capacity. Moving on to the next store I found a nice lot of supposedly small shirts shaped like potato sacks, not being fussy but if I wear something it needs to have some shape - I'm not a packing crate and I refuse to dress as such. The next store looked promising, until I noticed the colours. Myself not being a hi-lighter pen, they didnt really suit my complexion.
And so it continued in a neat cycle of clothing being either designed for those the size and shape of Jupiter or in colours that make Joseph's technicolour dreamcoat look like a Zebra costume. The basic reason I'm posting all of this, apart from getting it all off my chest, is I still have no idea where in Adelaide I am meant to get clothes that I can actually wear. Can anybody give me any suggestions? I've run out of ideas! :confused: