Originally posted on 39AndHoldingClub site July 19, 2014 - please enjoy again!
Most of the time as a “retiree” (excuse me while I laugh into my
coffee), I have no need to wear anything other than the sloppiest of casual
clothes.
However, I’m not (yet) a hermit and
there are those times when I must face the public. I would like to do so in
something other than my 20-year-old halfway decent fashions.
But shopping for clothes is no
longer the fun past time that once showed off my bargain finds, demonstrating
fashion sense for mere cents.
I have … ahem … “matured.” While I enjoy the added wisdom of my mental
maturity, I do not appreciate my body’s insistence on keeping up with my
bulging brain.
I will not soon again, however, don a
mini-skirt (stop laughing! I once rocked 'em ...
and yes, young’uns, you are simply regurgitating our '60s-revolutionary style)
… yet nearly all of the current fashions fit me like one! I would like to find something
“in my size” in our department stores.
Does it truly escape the attention
of designers and retailers that the FIRST sizes to sell out in a popular style
are the AVERAGE and PLUS sizes?? Do you not recognize that “average” sizes in
reality, are 12 – 18, NOT sizes 6 – 10?
Have the clothing manufacturers adopted the same stick-it-to-the-consumer ploy as grocery suppliers?
Do they REALLY believe we don’t notice that we’re paying the same price for a loaf of bread – in which the slices are SMALLER than they were five years ago?!
Does it truly escape the attention
of designers and retailers that the FIRST sizes to sell out in a popular style
are the AVERAGE and PLUS sizes?? Do you not recognize that “average” sizes in
reality, are 12 – 18, NOT sizes 6 – 10?Have the clothing manufacturers adopted the same stick-it-to-the-consumer ploy as grocery suppliers?
Do they REALLY believe we don’t notice that we’re paying the same price for a loaf of bread – in which the slices are SMALLER than they were five years ago?!
