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Funny how I never seem to post when I'm doing interesting or exciting things. I'm too busy doing interesting and exciting things.
I'm still in Berkeley, having had a bunch of small-world coincidences and a lot of dancing, and having made the acquaintance of a few new people. Robynne and I are about to go clothes shopping. Kind of terrifying but oddly fun to have new clothes.
I had Jacob and his girlfriend take me out shopping last Saturday. They took me to Express, which everyone I've talked to seems to like. I am still getting adjusted to the non-Sears clothes-shopping experience. I can't figure out why I was never clued in to go to good stores before. The experience was all camouflaged in over-snobbish fashion-sensitive teenage girls, maybe, so I didn't ever notice, and at Sears and Wal-mart and the like, no one was around to embarrass me away from looking at any particular thing on the rack. On the downside, I was usually with my mother. Hm. No wonder I've never liked clothes shopping. Also, there have been the stupid things, like it never occurring to me that I don't have to rearrange all the clothes on their hangers after trying them on. There are store employees for that. Trying on clothes suddenly became a lot less tedious. And not only do the store employees deal with your discarded try-ons, they even collect the stuff you're carrying around and keep it for you until you can have one big try-on session. No wonder this exercise never seemed to be the pit of hell for other people that it did for me.
So now I've got a few things that people claim look nice on me, and I'm slowly starting to feel less self-conscious about them. (For those of you who read Jesse's LJ, the picture of me and too much cleavage was one of the new things.) I wonder how well I can deal with breaking free of the baggy-jeans-and-t-shirt thing entirely, and how expensive that would be. And I wonder how long I will have this strange fascination with clothing for myself.
All this, though, and I still have very little interest in fashion on other people. I find that oddly reassuring.
I'm still in Berkeley, having had a bunch of small-world coincidences and a lot of dancing, and having made the acquaintance of a few new people. Robynne and I are about to go clothes shopping. Kind of terrifying but oddly fun to have new clothes.
I had Jacob and his girlfriend take me out shopping last Saturday. They took me to Express, which everyone I've talked to seems to like. I am still getting adjusted to the non-Sears clothes-shopping experience. I can't figure out why I was never clued in to go to good stores before. The experience was all camouflaged in over-snobbish fashion-sensitive teenage girls, maybe, so I didn't ever notice, and at Sears and Wal-mart and the like, no one was around to embarrass me away from looking at any particular thing on the rack. On the downside, I was usually with my mother. Hm. No wonder I've never liked clothes shopping. Also, there have been the stupid things, like it never occurring to me that I don't have to rearrange all the clothes on their hangers after trying them on. There are store employees for that. Trying on clothes suddenly became a lot less tedious. And not only do the store employees deal with your discarded try-ons, they even collect the stuff you're carrying around and keep it for you until you can have one big try-on session. No wonder this exercise never seemed to be the pit of hell for other people that it did for me.
So now I've got a few things that people claim look nice on me, and I'm slowly starting to feel less self-conscious about them. (For those of you who read Jesse's LJ, the picture of me and too much cleavage was one of the new things.) I wonder how well I can deal with breaking free of the baggy-jeans-and-t-shirt thing entirely, and how expensive that would be. And I wonder how long I will have this strange fascination with clothing for myself.
All this, though, and I still have very little interest in fashion on other people. I find that oddly reassuring.
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Date: 2003-07-18 08:32 pm (UTC)No, it really is not too much. It is a fine top, and I think the ribbons are a nice touch. Shopping can be fun...sometimes.
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