For me Liz Claiborne is a "sometimes." Her petites are often too short and her size 4 in regular is too big. For some reason or other the sleeve length is good but the pants aren't.
So far for the past year or so I have been luckiest with either Gloria Vanderbilt or Geoffrey Beene. Fortunately I live nearly always in jeans and they usually are easier to fit. Probably because so many teenagers are skinny.
I also do a lot of my shopping in Marshalls or TJMaxx and they occasionally have an off brand, or a foreign designer, that makes pants long enough for me to have to hem them.
On one of the sewing newsgroups I frequent, people were complaining that this year the RTW pants are all too long. The final consensus was that this year everyone is expected to wear four-inch heels under them.
I've often had good luck with Lands End in these situations. For basics like jeans and chinos they typically have a range of options, including hemmed to order and completely customized fits.
Good point, Lucille. In the local grocery stores where I shop here, they actually have complimentary sanitizing wipes as you enter the shop, in large dispensers. So, you can wipe your cart, your hands, whatever.
Personally, I have the healthcare worker paranoia but not to extreme. I look at the towel dispenser, and if it's doable with an elbow, I wash my hands, with soap, and then do the towel thing. I at times tear off a bit first to use to close the water tap after washing. If I have to, then I'll tear paper first. I do always, always, go wash my hands before touching the food when we go out - particularly when we've been shopping, etc. Honestly, must say my handwashing before eating, and in general, pretty often, became more evident after I'd been working in London 20 years ago. I would look down after tooling around during the day, and notice my hands were so dirty that I just was always washing them - between the exhaust, etc - much worse than here at that time.
We could morph this subject into my pet peeves - "Cell Phones" in public restooms. I mean, honestly, short of averting nuclear holocaust what is so important that you have to invade other peoples privacy by sharing the sounds of the public restroom with whomever? I've heard some doozies, and actually taken to asking people if they're planning on staying with their phone on - usually by the sinks, telling them it's bothering me, or asking them to step outside to continue their conversation. Yuck.
I agree, that is really disconcerting. And if I am being called, I really don't want to listen to someone else going to the bathroom or washing their hands. Yuck! I close the door at home - why do you think I want to share this with you now?
But it really bugs me to hear people: 1) answering their phone and saying "Oh, we're at Wal-Mart and then we're going McDonald's" or whatever as they continue to navigate the aisles, not looking where they're going, bumping into everyone and blocking the way; 2) Related to #1 - those that stand in front of whatever and talk to their spouse or someone and say "well, the Kraft is on sale, but Joey likes Central Dairy better, so what do you think I should get?" - come on, make a decision on your own!; 3) People using their cellphones while checking out - it is RUDE, RUDE, RUDE to the person checking you out - do you think their automans or something that they don't notice you're treating them like a piece of discarded gum?; 4) People on cell phones driving, particularly in bad weather (can't tell you how many morons have almost sideswiped me because they were so busy with one hand on the phone while navigating an icy narrow corner), or who slow down and speed up in accordnace with their conversation on the interstate
LOL! Can you tell I am not a fan of the cell phone?
I keep an always-charged cell phone in my car to call 911, since my car didn't have an option for OnStar. However, that phone doesn't have any service and is only for 911.
I often wonder what on earth people have so say on their cell phones that is so darned important! They are on the phone non-stop! Personally, I rather enjoy being out of touch when I'm shopping or in the car or just listening to the birds in the yard or reading the morning paper on the front porch.
By the way, I understand from some recent police statistics and reports that a driver on a cell phone is more likely to cause an accident that a drunk driver! I have seen some really, really stupid things and close calls from folks on the phone while driving, and it makes those idiots who put on makeup, shave, or read while driving look smarter than they probably are. . .
I suggest my sister's approach to cell-phone-in-car. If she is driving and needs to make a call (very seldom), she either hands the phone to the passenger to use or pulls off the road to use the phone. Very few people have her cell number, so she almost never gets calls. Of course, she likes my approach --- no cell phone except one just for
In the UK it is illegal to drive whilst using a mobile phone, you still see some idiots doing so, but it is dangerous and distracting behaviour. A little girl was killed near here by a driver on the phone. Many people use hands free phones with Bluetooth, but driving organisations here still believe this is dangerous.
When his boss finally insisted that my boss HAD to get a cell phone, I told him 2 things: (1) 99% of the time, I need to talk AT you, not WITH you, so voice mail is all I need ... when you get off the freeway is soon enough for you to find out what I had to say (2) if I ever hear you talking and driving, I will kill you if the resultant accident doesn't do it first.
Sure enough, when he called me from a moving vehicle, his first words were "Scott's driving!" to make sure that I didn't say "shut up and drive" and hang up on him.
My boss and I discussed this possibility soon after this "ant- bacterial" craze started (by whom? the soap companies?). Some of the sickest people I know are the gotta-wash-my-hands-60-times-a-day type! Some of the healthiest are the normal-clean type who don't obsess over everyday germs. As Trish said, "how do you reckon we managed to survive this long without all succumbing to botulism of some other foul pathogen? Our bodies are *designed* to cope..."
The other thing they're starting to discover is that there is now an increase in rickets (soft bones caused from Vitamin D deficiency), due to overuse of sunblocks, especially on children.
WebMD had this to say, "Baker explains that the sun helps to produce vitamin D through the skin. But parents finally have gotten the message that sun exposure can lead to skin cancer. They have been slathering their children with sun block or keeping them covered with protective gear, therefore, "children are no longer getting sufficient sun exposure to [create] vitamin D this way," Baker says."
For YEARS we have been Taught that we Have BAD HOURS =3Ddangerous to be exposed to sun, and Good hours when it is ok to walk in sun even without any screening etc... Reseachers indeed found out that Ultra Orthodox women who are all Covered and never expose at least arms and leg parts to the sun , indeed have Lack of Vitamin D... mirjam
Thank you for the recommendation. It'll work for ME!!
(And just when I'm getting desperate. I hate buying bras...so much money and such a crap shoot.)
Awhile ago a local "lifestyle" columnist, Susan Reimer, had an article about how bras are to the Gen-X generation what shoes were to earlier ones. She said her daughter had about 20 bras, while she had three...
It was quite an eye-opener, and I looked at one of my own DDs, who has a different bra for almost every day of the month, it seems. But then again, she's quite endowed and it's a very necessary part of her wardrobe. (I'm not sure the other one has more than two -- she really only has to wear them for work in the office - and even then there's a good chance it might not be noticed if she went without!)
It`s totally illegal to use your cellphone whilest you`re driving, in the UK!
I`m with you - people on cell-phones are annoying. The ones that get me are those in supermarkets with phones glued to their ear, arguing about what flavour crisps etc. How on EARTH did people manage to shop before cellphones???
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