OT: Sooz...will you?

Speaking of which... I dont dress up often, but I cant remember the last time I put on a dress and felt... ooooh.. special and beautiful and comfortable ... like when we were little girls playing dress up and got an old fancy dress to wear. Diana

Kind of like me. I babysit my friend's dogs for free. Then my friend, out west, tells me, while they were moving, they put their dog in doggie day care during the day, for $25 a day! I told hubby and said, "Sheesh! I could do that." He reminded me that I do do that, I just don't get paid for it.

Oh well, I get paid in puppy kisses.

Dirndls, tent dresses, hot pants, belly bearers, how many fashion faux paus have we endured in life? LOLOLOLOLOLOL

The model was cool but most of the clothes in my + size collection were ugly.

Heh. Their versions of "undefined waist" and "small to medium bustline" are *way* different than my versions. I should be so lucky to look like my virtual model :)

Cheers, Carla

Diana Curtis wrote:

Those are among the absolute best kisses in the world!

.....Stephanie.....

LOL Hit that little + sign and you'll still have a wait but bigger hips. lol

Same here. I think the last time I had a dress on that felt truly special was my son's wedding 3 years ago!

In the land's end one you can enter your actual measurements so it will be more accurate.

I , ehm, think the model may've been made by a man, since, um, they don't seem to understand that the chest area won't always sit just like that. It stays the same no matter which bra you try on. I don't personally wear bras that do that, and my body sure doesn't do it by itself. So YMMV a *little* on the shirt fittings I figure. Still it's a LOT better then looking at the clothes on a 6 foot tall stick thin model, and better even then looking at them on some of the "full figured" but still tall and fit looking compared to me models they now have in some of the plus size catalogs.

marisa2

Carla wrote:

I just wanna know where the option for "fallen post child bearing belly" is.

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "~Candace~" :

]I just wanna know where the option for "fallen post child bearing belly" is.

point!

sorry to piggy back, but I also want to know where the option for "biscected by underwear elastic and waist-of-jeans-fallen post child bearing belly" is.

It's not all that exciting of a story, really, Margie...LOL. We have always lived in a two story housing arrangement, whether it was the college dorms, our second story apartment or both houses we've had. I tend to fall UP stairs, as opposed to down them. Anyway....I was walking up our apartment stairs, which were solid concrete, carrying a basket of laundry on my hip. Of course, I was wearing my straight leg jeans, and my shoe caught in the front of the hem. So...I fell up the stairs, per normal, and broke two toes. From then on, I bought only tapered jeans for wearing around the house to do my housework. I tried it with sweats once....but I have issues with elastic, too.

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kathy N-V :

]Now I look every day of ]my 41 years and then some.

OUCH! that hurts, Kathy! **grin** i'd settle for looking 41 instead of 61 any day!

]Maybe I should guilt Manda into thinking her adolescence has aged me. ]No, that's way too cruel. I'll guilt Bob instead. :-)

yeah - his shoulders are bigger. [note - i CAN date my gray hair from the day Jamie was born when i was

1. i should have known then . . . ]

Plus the old age belly apron roll that fits just at the top of the legs. Shirley

In message , vj writes

I once had this horrifying/wonderful dream where someone tripped me as I was walking and I fell up against a huge paper cutter....well, the blade came down, sliced off my baby-bearing-leftovers (DA BELLY) and as I look down expecting to see a scene out of a horror movie--my belly was smooth, taut skin, and slim! I didn't know if I should laugh or cry when I woke up.

I think it's one of those situations that has to be seen to be believed. lol

I think it's okay to say "I FEEL ugly" though. Feeling stuff is okay. BEING it here is not. In my opinion. ~~ Sooz

Haw! I've done that as well! Makeovers, and doggie daycare -- my two volunteer careers. (I don't do either anymore.) ~~ Sooz