fashion woes & misc.
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1) My new health regimen appears to be working. Working to the point where I now need new jeans. Yay. Except, I have such issues with jeans, you don't even know.
I haven't lost that much weight as far as my scale goes, but my jeans are getting too big and I have to get some new ones unless I want to be seen constantly hitching them up. (No.) I'm assuming the oddity can be attributed to the weight training I've been doing. The problem is ... I just don't know where to go to get the perfect jeans.
In all my years of buying jeans, the place that comes closest to having jeans that fit me is the Gap. Sometimes Old Navy, but everyone knows they're pretty much the same store, anyway. However, still, there are discrepancies. Note: two pairs of jeans are now too baggy around the waist. They are sizes 6 and 8, respectively. The 6 is a low rise, which might help explain why that might be too 'big' -- so maybe a normal 6 would fit me. For sure I can't fit into a size 4 at either store (I haven't worn a 4 since high school). I think I could be anywhere from a 5 to a 7 at this point (only, of course, the sizes are 4, 6, and 8).
Not to mention the length issues. The Gap, in particular, is good about having decent-length jeans ... everywhere else, they are far, far, far too long for me. (I hate that.) Still, though, it's not perfect. Ankle-length is usually too short, but regular-length is usually too long. I've gotten jeans hemmed a couple of times, but it usually costs like half what I paid for the damn jeans in the first place. ARGH. So ... where do you guys buy your jeans? Any recs for really great-fitting jeans?
I suppose this might be a good time to bust out my 7 for All Mankind jeans, which I spent waaaaay too much money on at Nordstrom, but now that I'm starting to change sizes, I'm wondering if it might be best to hold off, and maybe in future I can exchange them for another size. :-S
2) I had these tres awesome black boots by Steve Madden that I absolutely loved. They were so, so comfortable, looked great, etc. But the other day, the zipper on the left boot broke. :(( So this morning, from the depths of my closet, I pulled out a pair of Docs, newly purchased a couple of months ago. I have avoided wearing them for all this time because breaking in new Docs has got to be one of the most awful ordeals ever. I thought, "Maybe it won't be so bad." I was wrong. There's something about Docs, because they always chafe my heels like crazy, and now they are reddened, as if the skin is going to be rubbed away any second. :p Plus the boots are stiff and awkward, and I feel like I'm clumping around like some fisherman down the hall. I just want them to be well worn already, so I can bend at the ankle like a normal person.
3) There are too many fun-sounding fic contests!! My head is going to explode.
4) The surprise party for K. went fantastically well. The look on her face made it all worth it. Plus I got hit on by two guys, which sort of shows that if I would leave my house once in awhile I might get to know people, but I think the question is really whether I want to get to know people. In the case of these two particular guys, I would have to say the answer is no.
5) Did you know that the Hollies have/had a song about a woman named Narida? :O I swear I did not know this when I "made up" the name as my XF fandom pseudonym.
6) Edit: What can you do if you're reading a book, and suddenly at page 246 it cuts back to page 215, which goes on until it hits 246 again, then jumps to page 285? Meaning you never got to read pages 246-285?? This happened to me just recently, with a stupid romance novel that I purchased at this used bookstore next to the DMV when I went to get my license renewed. Well, actually, it wasn't stupid. I actually very much enjoyed it up to page 246. But then it got very, very stupid.
It was A Whisper of Roses by Teresa Medeiros. Though missing 30 pages of the book was annoying, I decided to continue reading at page 285 anyway, figuring it was a romance and how much could have really happened in those 30 pages that I couldn't jump right back in?
IT WAS LIKE IT WAS A DIFFERENT BOOK.
In fact, if the characters hadn't all had the same names, I would have been convinced it was a different book. It was as though TM went, "I don't want to write a typical romance, so now I'm going to throw this plot twist in and flummox everyone. But at least they can't say it's a formula." I was sitting there going OMG WTF.
I had to skim the rest of the novel, it was that bad. It was sooooo disappointing, considering how great the first 2/3 was. The problem had nothing to do w/ the missing pages, because it was pretty easy to discern what happened in those 30 pages that made the storyline change. What was harder to understand was why. Why TM felt the need to screw over the heroine, and generally, the plot. It was almost like she wrote the first half of the book, decided to start over, then wrote the second half. It was completely bizarre. What happened could have been the plot of a whole other book. In fact, I can think of a Laura Kinsale book where it does happen, only to the hero, not the heroine.
So I really can't decide whether to rec this one or not. Maybe the only advice I have is to read the first 2/3 of the book, then put it down and say to yourself, "The End."
I haven't lost that much weight as far as my scale goes, but my jeans are getting too big and I have to get some new ones unless I want to be seen constantly hitching them up. (No.) I'm assuming the oddity can be attributed to the weight training I've been doing. The problem is ... I just don't know where to go to get the perfect jeans.
In all my years of buying jeans, the place that comes closest to having jeans that fit me is the Gap. Sometimes Old Navy, but everyone knows they're pretty much the same store, anyway. However, still, there are discrepancies. Note: two pairs of jeans are now too baggy around the waist. They are sizes 6 and 8, respectively. The 6 is a low rise, which might help explain why that might be too 'big' -- so maybe a normal 6 would fit me. For sure I can't fit into a size 4 at either store (I haven't worn a 4 since high school). I think I could be anywhere from a 5 to a 7 at this point (only, of course, the sizes are 4, 6, and 8).
Not to mention the length issues. The Gap, in particular, is good about having decent-length jeans ... everywhere else, they are far, far, far too long for me. (I hate that.) Still, though, it's not perfect. Ankle-length is usually too short, but regular-length is usually too long. I've gotten jeans hemmed a couple of times, but it usually costs like half what I paid for the damn jeans in the first place. ARGH. So ... where do you guys buy your jeans? Any recs for really great-fitting jeans?
I suppose this might be a good time to bust out my 7 for All Mankind jeans, which I spent waaaaay too much money on at Nordstrom, but now that I'm starting to change sizes, I'm wondering if it might be best to hold off, and maybe in future I can exchange them for another size. :-S
2) I had these tres awesome black boots by Steve Madden that I absolutely loved. They were so, so comfortable, looked great, etc. But the other day, the zipper on the left boot broke. :(( So this morning, from the depths of my closet, I pulled out a pair of Docs, newly purchased a couple of months ago. I have avoided wearing them for all this time because breaking in new Docs has got to be one of the most awful ordeals ever. I thought, "Maybe it won't be so bad." I was wrong. There's something about Docs, because they always chafe my heels like crazy, and now they are reddened, as if the skin is going to be rubbed away any second. :p Plus the boots are stiff and awkward, and I feel like I'm clumping around like some fisherman down the hall. I just want them to be well worn already, so I can bend at the ankle like a normal person.
3) There are too many fun-sounding fic contests!! My head is going to explode.
4) The surprise party for K. went fantastically well. The look on her face made it all worth it. Plus I got hit on by two guys, which sort of shows that if I would leave my house once in awhile I might get to know people, but I think the question is really whether I want to get to know people. In the case of these two particular guys, I would have to say the answer is no.
5) Did you know that the Hollies have/had a song about a woman named Narida? :O I swear I did not know this when I "made up" the name as my XF fandom pseudonym.
6) Edit: What can you do if you're reading a book, and suddenly at page 246 it cuts back to page 215, which goes on until it hits 246 again, then jumps to page 285? Meaning you never got to read pages 246-285?? This happened to me just recently, with a stupid romance novel that I purchased at this used bookstore next to the DMV when I went to get my license renewed. Well, actually, it wasn't stupid. I actually very much enjoyed it up to page 246. But then it got very, very stupid.
It was A Whisper of Roses by Teresa Medeiros. Though missing 30 pages of the book was annoying, I decided to continue reading at page 285 anyway, figuring it was a romance and how much could have really happened in those 30 pages that I couldn't jump right back in?
IT WAS LIKE IT WAS A DIFFERENT BOOK.
In fact, if the characters hadn't all had the same names, I would have been convinced it was a different book. It was as though TM went, "I don't want to write a typical romance, so now I'm going to throw this plot twist in and flummox everyone. But at least they can't say it's a formula." I was sitting there going OMG WTF.
I had to skim the rest of the novel, it was that bad. It was sooooo disappointing, considering how great the first 2/3 was. The problem had nothing to do w/ the missing pages, because it was pretty easy to discern what happened in those 30 pages that made the storyline change. What was harder to understand was why. Why TM felt the need to screw over the heroine, and generally, the plot. It was almost like she wrote the first half of the book, decided to start over, then wrote the second half. It was completely bizarre. What happened could have been the plot of a whole other book. In fact, I can think of a Laura Kinsale book where it does happen, only to the hero, not the heroine.
So I really can't decide whether to rec this one or not. Maybe the only advice I have is to read the first 2/3 of the book, then put it down and say to yourself, "The End."
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Date: 2004-09-28 03:12 am (UTC)I get my jeans at NY & Company. I don't know how much help this is but I'm about a size 7, again depending on the jeans. I have slim hips and no butt. Jeans often have much too much room in the derriere for me, plus I'm wavering on the tall side, so sometimes I have to buy tall. NY & Company has a slew of different fitting jeans (petite, tall, regular, and then variety too), they're affordable and comfy. I really like them because I've found something that works for my "boy" figure. Good luck!
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Date: 2004-09-28 03:22 am (UTC)