A Trying, Crying Experience
I have never liked clothes shopping. All that trying on is a big pain in the ass. I especially hate trying on jeans. I’m not one of those people that likes jeans. I haven’t liked wearing jeans since I was about 18 years old. I haven’t liked anything I’ve worn in a long time, that comes with being morbidly obese. But most of all I hated the way I looked and felt in jeans. I’d take stretchy pants over jeans any day, because they were loose and not restricting.
Before surgery I was in a size 28 (sometimes 30) in jeans and they were tight. My clothes are now all too big. I have pants that are actually falling off. I’ve been holding off on buying any clothes for a number or reasons but decided I was going to break down and buy one pair of inexpensive jeans. Last week I went to Walmart to carry out my mission. I grabbed a pair of size 26 jeans and brought them into the dressing room with me.
I took the jeans off of the hanger and pulled them on. They didn’t even come up past my hips. They were way to small. At this point I actually sat on the dressing room bench and started to cry. I couldn’t understand how I’ve lost the weight I’ve lost and not gone down 1 size in jeans. I surprised myself at the sadness and emotions I felt. I decided I must have really stretched out my old jeans and hadn’t changed sizes as I’d thought.
As I was gathering up the jeans to take them out of the dressing room I noticed something on the tag out of the corner of my eye. When I went to look closer I noticed that the tag said size 22. I’d been trying on the wrong size jeans!
What’s the worst experience you’ve ever had trying on clothes?
Filed Under: Bariatric surgery • Health
I love wearing jeans but I have such a hard time finding one that fits right. Some of my friends have theirs altered but I just can’t see spending the money on a seamstress.
My experience is similar to yours. I think jeans and swimsuits are the worst to try to find. Check around to see if there is a plus-size consignment shop in your area. There’s usually a large selection and the clothes are fairly inexpensive, compared to new retail . The plus-size designer items are also more fully cut and roomier than less expensive clothing. You will be able to consign items that are now too large and find nice looking items that you can wear now and consign later. Also be careful around sale racks! A clothing store owner once told me that the # 1 reason an item ends up on a sale rack is that the clothing size tag was incorrectly sewn in at the factory.
Spending several days on and off in Lane Bryant searching for jeans. I too have lost weight. I tried trousers, straight legs, boot cut, and flares in red, yellow, and blue, in petite and average. The sales girls were nice and even ordered through their mail service–had to return them. Problems. I went up a size and down a size. 4? 5? Fantasy. In one I couldn’t zip up the zipper. In the other they fell to my hips LB, please bring back classic cut.
Meanwhile, my skinny ass daughter went to Fashion Bug and grabbed me a pair off the rack short, 4, yellow, straight leg. Now I have jeans I can wear. Thanks, kid.
I had a horrible incident once when shopping with my 4yr old niece. I picked the dress from the rack that mentioned her size. It went down her shoulder, but got stuck mid-way. I realized the dress was a size smaller but it had a zipper on the side which was half open (which is why it had probably gone half-way), so tried to unfasten it, but that was stuck! To add to Murphy’s delight, I was alone!! Had to yell for assistance but even she couldn’t do much! By this time my niece had started crying and was getting all red. Finally they had to tear the zip lining to get the dress out. That was the last time I ever took a kid out alone for shopping!!