Yesterday I wore a pair of black pants to work. I bought the pants at Nordstrom a year, year and a half ago. I believe that if you find a pair of pants that fit well, you should buy every color they have of those pants. A few years ago I bought a pair of white jeans that cost $180 but they are the best jeans ever and I would have bought more if they had that style in other colors but they didn't. I don't have that kind of money at all but that is how strongly I believe in finding good pants. I have the courage of my convictions.
Anyway, I bought the black pants and a pair of khaki ones. I asked the salesgirl if they had any other colors and she said, "No, I had to take the khaki ones off the mannequin. You should be happy you are so small, you are wearing the same size as the mannequin." Ah HAH!!! That is ridiculous. These pants are a size 6, mannequins wear size 0 or 2, which Nordstrom was obviously out of so they had to put the 6s on the mannequin and probably pin the waist band to fit them to the mannequin. Size 6 would go on a Lane Bryant mannequin.
I wore the size 6 black pants yesterday. Before I left the house, I realized I had to put a belt on because the size 6 pants were sliding off me. So I wore a belt to keep the size 6 pants on me.
See where I'm going with this? Someone who weighs *^# pounds is not a size 6!!! Americans are getting so fat that the fashion industry keeps changing the size numbers. I bet my size 6 pants were a size 10 twenty years ago. ("I understood there would be no math"). Pretty soon they are going to have to make negative sizes because the truly tiny people won't fit into a 0 anymore b/c I'll be wearing them! And it won't be b/c I've lost that much weight.... let's be realistic. I'm going to lose weight but I'm not going to be that skinny.
Tirade done.
Weekend coming. Office party is tomorrow, not looking forward to it at all. Just thought I'd mention that.
No comments:
Post a Comment