Guidelines When Shopping for Jeans

[carrie_leigh]

Every so often, in my life, an event occurs. I don't really have any control over it, I always find it terrifying, and it normally reduces me to a puddle of quivering sobs

Comments

[goeungurl]

Oh, Carrie. That was great. You make the most horrid experiences amusing to read about it. I know someone who buys a bunch of jeans, tries them on in the privacy/comfort of their own home, and returns the rest. I personally like to bring a trusted someone along who knows their role is to cheerlead, distract, and sugarcoat the truth. Liberally.

[carrie_leigh]

I'd do that, but I dislike returning stuff. Loathe it.

There's #11: Bring a trusted someone along who knows their role is to cheerlead, distract, and sugarcoat the truth. Liberally.

[leigh_adams]

#5 -- FOREVER AND EVER, AMEN. I detest trying on clothes in a dressing room. Not only because the lighting does horrible things to my budding shapely figure, but because I spend most of the time with my face an inch from the mirror, thinking, "Is that what my pores really look like?"

I hate jean shopping. But you know what brand really works on me, once you get them on?

Wranglers.

I KNOW. Granted, I grew up wearing them (you know, the whole farm/country girl thing), but they have a women's line called Aria, and they're wonderful. There's no better feeling than losing weight (almost 30 pounds since June!) and slipping into your high school jeans.

*SMOOSH*

[carrie_leigh]

Congratulations on losing 30 pounds! That's major!

Wranglers, huh?

I'll give it a shot. :)

[mollywheezy]

What have you done to lose 30 pounds since JUNE? Seriously. Please share the secret. ;)

[13oct]

I call the jean shopping experience the seventh level of hell. I wear my jeans till they are ripped beyond repair just to avoid buying new ones. :/

[mugglechump]

You need a column somewhere. You're that fun to read. I'm not even kidding a little.

I think this is fantastic advice, and I will follow it if ever I get back to a weight where I am willing to consider wearing jeans. Denim shorts aside, I sincerely believe the last pair of jeans I owned was somewhere in the vicinity of 1995.

[mollywheezy]

1. Yes, this.

2. I prefer a nice Merlot . . . lots of it. ;)

3. Dress Barn FTW! :D

4. Yes, they do.

5. See icon.

8. ROTFLMBO!! Chocolate pudding through a twizzler . . . Hee. I wish LMBO was actually a weight loss strategy . . .