Bears

[mariness]

I generally loathe shopping for clothes. I approach clothes shopping the way some people approach going to the dentist. (I approach going to the dentist the way some people approach going towards a nuclear bomb.) Which is why I usually shop alone for clothes

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[malterre]

I have similar shopping experiences. I have a long waist and because of the swordwork-crazy-wide shoulders and arms.

Yeah, what IS it like to be "average size"

[mariness]

What I find most annoying is the assumption that women shopping in the petite section would be tall.

[kittykatkatja]

What you need is this.

[technoshaman]

Nuh-uh! this! :)

[kittykatkatja]

I bow to your superior choice of bear items. :)

[mariness]

But does that really work against pirate bears?

[technoshaman]

No bears? B-b-b-b-but BEARS! Especially scurvy PIRATE BeARRRRRRRRRRS!!!!

As for pants, I feel your pain, I have the same problem only different. No real human being has a 25" inseam. Call me a mutant. But, yeah, having seen what looked in jeans to be not so great a butt turn out to be terminally cute when divested of them, I totally understand the whole butt-fit thing.

*sigh* I think I already ranted in here once about the male chauvanist pigs who make us real men look bad by FUBARing the whole womens' fashion industry...

[mariness]

The main problem for me is that after about 15 minutes of pants shopping, I feel short. Very short. I hate this.

[kittykatkatja]

I think because you're so slim, you don't _look_ short. How tall are you in relation to my 5'2-1/2"?

[mariness]

Shorter :(

I don't usually feel that short, although yes, I admit that I've put most of the pictures in my house at my eye level will can be disconcerting for the tall.

[fizzgig_bites]

You forgot to add the parents crying because their brat wants a bear and the parent will pay $50 to shut the kid up.

[mariness]

Marketing genius. And why they're able to open stores in Russia.

[laurenhat]

*shifting eyes back and forth* *scuffling feet*

I, um, have some clothes from the Build-A-Bear shop. Or rather, my teddy bear does. I didn't buy a bear there, but I succumbed to the need to see Stitch clad in wee adorable clothes. Sigh.

I hate clothes shopping. And shoe shopping is, indeed, even worse. Bah.

[mariness]

:: suddenly remembers that she has not one, or two, but three Stitch stuffed animals that she could put in Build-A-Bear pirate costumes....oooh! ::

Shoe shopping eliminates all ounces of humanity from my soul. It's not pretty.