Posts tagged with "fashion"

A Difference In Size

Every time I try on a shirt or sweater here, the sizes nev­er seem to be con­sis­tent, even with­in the same store. A small will be just right some­times, and too small at oth­er times. It’s not like back home, where I don’t even need to try on tops, I always fit into smalls. I can fit into a few medi­ums here, which makes me feel HUGE.

They Say It's Out Of The Matrix

Bought an absolute­ly per­fect leather jack­et today. I’ve been look­ing for one for more than a year now. The Canadian stores nev­er sell leather jack­ets that are built for my frame, so mak­ing the deci­sion to buy one here was fair­ly easy (that and the fact that it was 35% off, yet still cheap­er than any­thing I found in Canada before the dis­count, espe­cial­ly for long jack­ets). It’s a nice qual­i­ty leather, fits my shoul­ders well, and goes past my knees, so it’s exact­ly what I was look­ing for. I dare some­one to call me fru­gal. I dou­ble dog dare them.

More Shopping With Pris, And A New Pair Of Docs

Priscilla took me shop­ping around Tsim Sai Tsui yes­ter­day with her boyfriend Thomas. I had no idea they were a cou­ple until lat­er on in the night when they slipped a kiss when they thought no one was look­ing. I was total­ly com­fort­able before I caught it hap­pen­ing, but after­wards, it was hard to not feel like a third wheel. It’s so weird that every­thing is fine before one knows, but as soon as one gets that extra bit of infor­ma­tion, every­thing turns awk­ward.

I end­ed up buy­ing a pair of Docs, which are sim­i­lar to the pair that I have now, except they’re more square at the toe and have a much thick­er sole. They’re very cozy though, even before work­ing them in. The UK stopped ship­ping Docs to Canada a few years ago, due to a cost imbal­ance, and I man­aged to get a pair before they were all gone. I did­n’t need anoth­er pair of Docs yet (I still wear the oth­er two pairs that I own), but I fig­ure that I might as well since I won’t have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to buy them any time soon.

I Mentally Outgrow My Clothes

Found a great stark red dress shirt at Banana Republic yes­ter­day that I want­ed to pur­chase right then and there, but unfor­tu­nate­ly I don’t have any mon­ey any­more. I’m flat out broke, going into debt for the first time in my life, unless I decide to take up a tem­po­rary job in January instead of going back to school. The first thing I’m going to buy when I get a job is new clothes. Running across that shirt gave me a great idea though; I’m going to try intro­duc­ing more reds into my wardrobe. I cur­rent­ly only have a maroon golf shirt, and most of my clothes don’t seem to match my cur­rent moods/outlook. The pre­vi­ous year has been very neu­tral kha­ki and navy blue, while the year before that was most­ly blacks and greys.

The only real down­side to con­stant men­tal change is that it seems like I’m out­grow­ing my wardrobe every year.