I have a hard time shopping for clothing. Pants that fit are usually wayyyy too long (I am 5′ 3″) and shirts that fit well are rare as well - I am big breasted and usually shirts that fit the girls are too huge every where else.
I am wearing a size 12 pants at the moment but they LIE. I am NOT a size 12 - more like a 14/16. The 3 pairs of pants that I truly love and that fit me well are my Red Number 2 petites. I have them only in jeans but may buy them in the slacks - anyone know if they fit the same? They don’t sell them in my local LB stores. Grumble.
I need some shirts but am at a loss as to wear to go. Lane Bryant doesn’t really carry anything I would ever wear. The Right Fit jeans were the first things I ever bought in the store (minus an occasional bra, although those don’t quite fit right).
If I try on clothes in the plus sized section of Target they are cut too big for me. If I try on the larger sizes in the regular section, they fit funny and are always crazy long in the legs.
My body image is pretty mediocre these days and I am sure part of it is that I need a larger wardrobe that I feel good in. I’m just not sure where to go. I don’t seem to be thin enough or fat enough.
Sigh.
I hear ya, sister. My body is in that no-pants-land, too, where I’m built like a plus-size girl but am not big enough for true plus sizes, but am built completely wrong for misses’ sizes. GAH!
I have no advice, which is why I wear about three pairs of pants over and over and over again, but if it’s any comfort, you’re not alone in this.
And if you find any Magic Land O’ Pants, let me know, okay?
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