Dress-sicle
The company party for where Matt works is tomorrow (well, today) and I decided that I’d dress up for a change. I mean, I’m super bad at dressing up. I’ve got exactly one pair of nice pants, and two, maybe three tops that aren’t rubbish. Thing is, I just really, really hate clothes shopping. In lieu of a full on psychological post, we’ll just go with: Plus size shopping is the pits.
So, I went to Avenue, because they’re a plus size store and I know them reasonably well. I’m not too keen on going into strange stores by myself. Long story short on that, the sales clerk was on my tail the entire time. Now, I appreciate it when clerks greet me and make it known that they’re available if I need anything, but if I’m in the dressing room with three dresses, you don’t need to come ask me if I need help every two minutes, then let me know that I can get a credit card as soon as I walk out. It was ridiculous. I found one dress that was reasonably decent, but on principle of the sales lady driving me insane, I decided to try Kohl’s. But really, what is with plus size dresses being completely unflattering if you’ve got stomach fat? I mean, hello?
The dress selection at Kohl’s was super dismal, I found one rack with a few dresses of a similar style, and one rack with one dress. But, hey, the first dress I tried on there ended up being the one I walked out with.
Now, let me preface it. The dress is kind of ridiculous. It actually looks prettier in person, not as weird and busy. It looks better on me in the chest area, and worse in the hips. But I found a little sweater to go with it, so we’re good. Also adding to the ridiculous factor is that this dress is so not “middle of January in Michigan” appropriate. The high tomorrow is going to be 20, with a wind chill that weather.com says will “feel like 14″.
So I’m going to freeze to death.
But!
I’ll have worn a dress for the first time since I got married, and I’ll feel like a winner for that.
See? Yeah. I’m totally going to freeze to death.
Worth it!