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selkie at 02:28pm on 18/01/2005
selkie at 02:28pm on 18/01/2005I am suited.
I have a suit.
60% Clearance how we love thee.
It's black, and the pants have a very nice drape and are the proper length, and the jacket is -- well, it's a single-breasted suit jacket, rather on the boxy side, but actually fitted, which is not something I can say about the rest of my wardrobe. I look like I have a figure, and I am pleased. The shop didn't, for whatever reason, stock any shells or even turtleneck shirts to wear underneath, but...
I dunno. Harness me into a decent brassiere and I actually appear unslouchy. I was impressed. I think I look moderately good -- in the sense that no one of my build looks stunning in a two-piece bog-standard black suit, so I'm happy -- and I spent $58.98 to do it.
Clothes one would wear to an interview for a government clerk position are rather expensive, have you noted? Trop cher! said the Selkie, inwardly, her eyebrows racing toward her hairline, as she hastily put back that pair of trousers...
Also, to the designers of trousers for the larger lady: stop putting pockets on dress slacks. Right now. What do they think we need pockets in a pair of silk-rayon business trousers for, to keep an emergency Hershey bar in?! Yes, pockets are useful, but they pooch out. They look awful. I tried on slacks two sizes larger than fit me, and the pockets still pooched out. Ditto faux zippers and other cute 'details' designed to make it look like there are pockets when there aren't any. That little black zipper pull with the rhinestone on it doesn't do anything but pooch out.
My khaki-cotton work trousers and my denims have pockets. For heaven's sake I don't need them on my interview trousers; I'll keep my subway pass and my Hershey bar in my purse.
I have a suit.
60% Clearance how we love thee.
It's black, and the pants have a very nice drape and are the proper length, and the jacket is -- well, it's a single-breasted suit jacket, rather on the boxy side, but actually fitted, which is not something I can say about the rest of my wardrobe. I look like I have a figure, and I am pleased. The shop didn't, for whatever reason, stock any shells or even turtleneck shirts to wear underneath, but...
I dunno. Harness me into a decent brassiere and I actually appear unslouchy. I was impressed. I think I look moderately good -- in the sense that no one of my build looks stunning in a two-piece bog-standard black suit, so I'm happy -- and I spent $58.98 to do it.
Clothes one would wear to an interview for a government clerk position are rather expensive, have you noted? Trop cher! said the Selkie, inwardly, her eyebrows racing toward her hairline, as she hastily put back that pair of trousers...
Also, to the designers of trousers for the larger lady: stop putting pockets on dress slacks. Right now. What do they think we need pockets in a pair of silk-rayon business trousers for, to keep an emergency Hershey bar in?! Yes, pockets are useful, but they pooch out. They look awful. I tried on slacks two sizes larger than fit me, and the pockets still pooched out. Ditto faux zippers and other cute 'details' designed to make it look like there are pockets when there aren't any. That little black zipper pull with the rhinestone on it doesn't do anything but pooch out.
My khaki-cotton work trousers and my denims have pockets. For heaven's sake I don't need them on my interview trousers; I'll keep my subway pass and my Hershey bar in my purse.
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If they would tailor the pants correctly, the pockets would be less likely to pooch out. But that's probably too much to ask. I get the feeling they want us to be grateful that we're not still being force-fed the polyester smock tops of yesteryear.
Can you tell you hit a nerve? I'll be looking for interview suits myself before long, I hope, and I'm dreading it a bit.
K.
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Also, the colours for the coming season appear to be salmon, lavender and lime. Ghastly. And that was Lane Bryant, for heaven's sake. Usually one can depend on Lane Bryant not to make one look utterly clownish.
Eddie Bauer goes up to 4x now. Rejoice. (An Eddie Bauer 4x is about a 22, just to note, but hey.)
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I wear skirts rather than pants -- and I like pockets. I don't carry a purse 'cos (a) I don't want it snatched, and (b) I want stuff like my Metrocard and my keys closer to hand.
And they don't make business skirts with pockets hardly at all. Which makes no sense, 'cos a skirt (unless it's really tight) won't pooch out if you add pockets, and slacks will, but who gets the pockets?
Grah. Grah, I say.