Shallow fashion whining

[cupcake_goth]

I'm in the depths of one of my "find all the stripey blazers!" cycles. Why yes, you remember correctly: I DO have a bunch of stripey blazers already.

None of them fit me right now^*.

::And now, the Body Image Demons, performing their timeless classic "QUUUUUEEEEEEEN OF THE WAAAAAALRUS PEOPLE!"::

I am taking steps (literally, heh) to fix that situation, but that doesn't change the fact that I want stripey blazers that fit me NOW. I am in the midst of tailoring one that was in the depths of the Storage Heap Room o' Doom, but let's be realistic about me, I need at least two stripey blazers: one black and white, one black and pink.

Finding black and white stripey blazers would be a lot simpler if I wasn't fervently, irrationally against horizontal stripes for myself. But every time I think about wearing a horizontally-striped blazer, the Body Image Demons get even louder. Which I didn't think was possible.





^*Okay, that's not quite true. My striped frock coat from F+F still fits. But that's a smidge more formal than I want for my usual "leaving the house" fashion. The frock coat is for fancy events, not wandering around.

Comments

[ashbet]

*smacks your BIDs upside the head*

I still have this jacket, and have never been able to fit into it -- hoping that Metformin helps me on that account.

*hugs*

-- A <3

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

AH-HA! Thank you for posting that link! I knew there was another style of stripey top/jacket out there, and I couldn't remember where I had seen it.

[ashbet]

Glad to help! Although, fair warning, their 2X is REALLY tight.

<3

[sirriamnis.livejournal.com]

I think your demons and my brain weasels have been getting together for planning and strategy sessions.

Hugs.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

THEY DO NOT NEED TO HELP EACH OTHER.

What do your Wed. evenings usually look like? Maybe we can get together next week.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

You know I'm a fiend for bicycling, especially as my exercise jam. I know you don't know how to ride. But by an odd twist of fate, Goldiebike is technically too small for me and can probably be adjusted to perfectly fit you - for educational purposes. If you're game, I am, but you will wear a helmet.

[sirriamnis.livejournal.com]

I should be free next Wednesday. Usually we have band practice, but our guitarist is going to Hawaii with his wife.

[m-cobweb.livejournal.com]

I think they all need to get bent. I can't look in a mirror lately without feeling completely disconsolate.

[fangirl715.livejournal.com]

FWIW, sometimes horizontal stripes can actually be more flattering than vertical stripes, depending on the size and spacing of said stripes--if there's too much spaces between the vertical stripes/they're too wide, the eye "reads" across and sees the wearer as "wider", whereas narrower horizontal stripes lead the eye downward...or so I've been told.

Begone, brain demons/weasels/whathaveyou!