Hey! I held myself to two dresses, a skirt, two shirts and shoestrings!
That's a LITTLE...........right?
I NEEDED them for ...ummm...work. Yeah. For work.
I actually DID have to go clothes shopping for work today. Since the only suit (other than my tuxedo) that I have that actually fits me is a suit that I have no desire to wear (it was purchased by The Ex), and I needed a suit tomorrow, I had to go suit shopping.
It wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be, since NOW (finally!) they actually make off-the-rack sport jackets that are actually pretty close to the right fit. (Slim fit seems to work; traditional cuts are right out.) I have a few old suits (traditional fits) that really need to be tailored, and I really thought that I wouldn't find anything that wouldn't require tailoring, and I did! Although it's still not perfect, as the woman who measured me said I needed a 39...since off-the-rack suits typically only come in even numbered measurements (although the slacks occasionally pop up in odds), I had to settle for a 38 (a little snug at the shoulders), because the 40 was too big at the waist.
The catch was that since the jacket was slim fit, the pants were cut slim as well, which made my correct measurement unusable...the slacks were basically skin tight from just above my knee to my waist. (Seriously, ladies, how do you wear skin tight jeans comfortably? I know the young males currently do so as well, and I just can't fathom how they can even move around. I sat down, and it felt like the slacks were on the verge of ripping at the seams.) So while I had to get the jacket a number lower, I had to get the slacks a number higher.
Even picked up a new pair of dress shoes, since the shoes I wear with the tux are NOT good for lots of walking around in, and since tomorrow is a marching contest, I'm going to be moving around a fair bit. Might as well wear something that won't make me grouchy to the point that when a kid makes a smart-aleck remark I take off a shoe and throw it at them.
And also, yaaaaay long dresses! I heart long dresses.