Fashion emergency

[morwen_peredhil]

1) Two days before you leave for a long family visit on the other side of the country is not a good time to bend over and rip the ass out of your favorite jeans. At least it happened at home.

2) It is also not a good time to discover that Banana Republic has stopped making that style. It was perfect but now it's gone

Comments

[simone7418]

Hazelnut gelato couldn't make things any worse.

*Hugs*

I know UTI hell all to well so you've got my sympathy. I take a daily cranberry supliment to promote urinary tract health (or at least that's what the bottle claims) and it's really helped me.

*more hugs*

[morwen_peredhil]

Thanks. I have interstitial cystitis, which means that cranberry is likely to hurt rather than help. I'm really hoping that this current episode is just a garden variety UTI that will be gone in a few days now that I'm on Cipro.

[rosewildeirish]

I feel your pain. Target did that with the Cherokee stretch jeans, which I LOVED, well. In their original form. About six months to a year before they yanked 'em completely, they...changed.

Still. I still cry over the loss of THE PERFECT PAIR OF JEANS, OMG.

[morwen_peredhil]

If I had known BR was going to discontinue my perfect jeans, I would have bought several pairs and squirreled them away for the future. Sigh.

[rosewildeirish]

I KNOW. Hateful.

[miniglik]

Oh, good. Cured by hazelnut gelato?

UTIs suck ass. What's IC?

I HHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAATEEEE skinny jeans. HATE THEM. No one looks good in them but supermodels (sometimes) and the rare super-skinny 10 year old girl. Why don't consumers/producers realize this, and have a variety of jean styles. Because it's not like women with asses and hips lose those asses and hips just because they happen to go out of style for 10 years. And it's not like MEN stop liking women with asses and hips either, just because Cosmo does. It makes no sense that we're forced to look everywhere for a pair of good fitting jeans just because some fashion industry people decide that skinny jeans are "in." [/end rant]

(And lets not even get into "shirts that are 5 times bigger on the bottom than the top." Of course, maybe those are to try to hide all the flesh hanging out over the top of the stupid skinny jeans. Or perhaps to make us better look like ostriches.)

[morwen_peredhil]

IC isinterstitial cystitis. I've been in remission for over a year, so that's why I'm hoping this is just a UTI.

They can push skinny jeans and what appear to be maternity tops at me as much as they want, but they can't force me to buy them! (Someone on my flist had her first baby a few months ago, and her reaction was "I just got out of maternity clothes, and there is no way in hell I'm going to wear them now that I don't have to!")

[ancarett]

Glad to hear that the hazelnut gelato helped! I hope that the jeans via your dad do help. This reminds me, I have to hie me off to Mark's Work Wearhouse and search out a couple pairs of jeans. I've lost two in the last month due to wear and tear. I'm down to one pair and feeling panicky!