brief and pointless

[floatingleaf]

Wasted a few hours at the mall today, trying to find some nice fall/winter clothes. Came back almost empty handed (most of the clothes I saw were totally unappealing, and those that did look nice were made for women with flawless figures... which means they became quite grotesque as soon as I put them on :|)... except for a bunch of scented tealight candles, LOL. I swear I am addicted to scented tealight candles, ever since my mother gave me this little ceramic container where you put a burning candle inside and some potpourri on top. I have at least fifteen packages - different scent each - hidden away in a cupboard. So I may be fat, ugly, unemployed and generally useless to human society at large, but at least my room smells nice.:P

And to think that shopping for clothes used to be so much fun... *sigh*

Well, I guess it belongs to the list of things that are only fun up to a certain age.:/ Like staying up long past midnight... LOL. *yawns and logs off*

Comments

[crowdaughter.livejournal.com]

You know, maybe it is not so much that you are oversized but that the avarage size of those clothes is unrealistic and made for women who abide to the unrealistic 'beauty' ideals of starving oneself to the point of underweight? :)

When I go shopping (and I *am* fat, more than I care for, sadly enough), I see most of the avarage clothes size are bwtween 34 and 42 max, while everything larger is hardly in evidence. I do not know if they produce less of those greater sizes, or if, since most women down here *have* size 42 and bigger, those greater sizes are simply bought out sooner. But do they produce more of the bigger sizes to meet the need, then? Noooo.

On the other hand, I am about 5,7 feet tall. Even when I was twenty and weighted a lot less, I had just size 40, not smaller, and I was not overweighted then, but had the weight that was *healthy* for my size. So? I believe the beauty ideal is a tad unrealistic.

And like a lot of women at my age, I have gained a lot more weight now, and realistically I will never meet the weight I had with twenty again. Good thing that some companies have got the message and produce good and great looking clothes for 'oversized' women, too, now.