And this is why I perfer second hand things...

[plantress]

I am skinny. Scratch that, I'm a twig, not a lot of curves here. I'm build on very petite lines. My little sister is built the same, so when we go shopping together it's often an adventure. With us it's almost never 'Oooh, that's a cute top/pair of jeans/swimsuit...do they have it in my size?' instead our shopping trips usual degrade into 'Ooh, look, they have XS for this! Is it cute?'. I'm actually used to this by now, but it does get frustrating at times, particularly when I keep finding tops that seem to expect even the smallest girls to have C cup breasts. Is there a reason that they have decided every girl in the US has larger boobs, or is the fashion industry just that out of touch with the fact that there are other shapes besides hourglass? I was talking about this with my sister and she's noticed it as well. It seems to be even more prominent during the summer of course. Then, you have to search carefully to find a top that doesn't expect you to be showing cleavage everywhere. It get very, very annoying when I find a top that fits me perfectly...but has a massive amount of loose cloth in front that it clearly expects me to fill.

Jeans are also frustrating for me since I have an odd shape. If I buy them new then they never fit right. Either the legs are too short or the waist is just a little too wide. My solution is to go to the Goodwill or other places with used clothing. For some reason I can always manage to find at least one pair of jeans that fits me perfectly. My current favorite pair of jeans that I have actually comes from the jeans comes from the time when I was visiting my sister in Utah and forgot mine. I went to Goodwill, grabbed a cheap pair for five bucks, and I've never been happy with them.

I do prefer to shop at second hand places overall, just because they have a bigger selection for people that are slightly odd shaped.

Besides, who wants to pay $30 dollars for a plain white t-shirt anyway?