Friday, 19 June 2009

  • I Went Shopping (Written 5/26/09)

    One thing about me and shopping : I dislike it.  

    I have the attention span of what is more common for guys: 10-30 minutes max (at a mall), especially if I have nothing I need off the bat.  

    On top of that, I despise the people.  They walk around like they drive, aloof and not caring if they are disrupting the flow of traffic.  And oh have you seen them when there are sales?  They are savage beasts that will stop at nothing to get their greedy little fingers on the latest fad on sale for a meager $1 off!  People die for their selfish covetousness.

    Now that the background is out of the way...  Yesterday, of all days, I somehow managed to convince myself that it was time to go shop for new jeans.  Also figured I might look into getting shorts and/or a skirt in the process.

    Jeans and me:  
    I usually try to wait it out at a certain size before I finally decide to buy jeans, because almost EVERY time (and it has yet to prove me otherwise) I buy new ones, my size changes AGAIN.  So the last time I bought jeans was last summer and since then, well for the past half a year, they've been getting saggier and saggier on me.  So after I left the gym yesterday morning, I figured I may as well go get new ones cuz I hate wearing belts.

    So I despise shopping, and jeans are the worse to shop for (tops I have a similar issue with but I can find ways around it and can make it work).  And with my stature and physique of my legs, the new "in" style of jeans does not work well with my figure: Skinny jeans and boot cut.  I am a slightly flared jeans kind of person to give me an hour glass'ish figure rather than a pear on toothpicks.

    In the end, after almost 2 grueling hours at 3 different stores trying on arm loads of pants, skirts and shorts, I have come to the following conclusions:

    -  Gap needs to bring back the ultra low rise, ankle length, flare jeans (the only jeans that ever worked with me time and time again).
    -  Ecko needs to make more jeans for women again.
    -  More places need to make more Ankle / Short length jeans (especially in high filipino populated areas - we ain't all that tall!)
    -  Jean skirts and shorts are big no-no for me.
    -  There's no such things as in between daisy dukes/mini skirts and board short length / knee length skirts in jeans anymore.  (I'm sure there are, but in 100 pieces, that's about 3 that everyone else in my predicament has already bought out leaving me with the sizes that do not fit me.)

    I wear between a size 4-7 depending on the brand and/or material (yay!  back to a 4 again).  I have thick thighs but that is on account that I used to be a strong runner in XC and track, and lately have been dancing a lot (I tried to re-confirm this for my own personal satisfaction when I had on one of the shorts by flexing my thigh muscles and shaking it around to see just how much was flab - alas, dam my muscular legs!).  I have short legs as well.  

    Yeah, my frustration levels just rose ever so much more slightly with the assistance of the overpopulation of people wandering the malls.  

    Ah the joys of shopping.  I'm glad it's over.

    Spoils of my adventure:  Total Damage = approx $100
    -  Old Navy : jeans "the Diva" cut (where the hell did all these new nicknames for these dam cuts come from?  grr), shirt from the boy's section with print of turntables/speakers/tape player/and other electronics
    -  Tilly's : daisy duke'ish length fabric short, soft fabric above the knee length floral print skirt, tie-dye looking black and white floral dress, flip flops.

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