StudioWear Tuesday

It's supposed to be in the 80's again here today. Yay! No more layers, no more piling on the socks. I think if I stand on my tiptoes, you can see everything:

Tunic I got on clearance at Old Navy last year--bought a bunch of them and dyed them and did two rows of hand-stitching around the hem of each one and then--THEN!--realized they were about 2 inches too long:  they were kind of baggy-looking at that length. As I've said before, in my mind, I'm much larger than I am in real life. I wear things and think they're great and then see a photo and realize it looks as if the clothes are consuming me, as if I'm swimming in some too-large/too-long/too-baggy thing. Imagine my grumbling when I gave in and cut them all off and re-hemmed them, albeit NOT with hand stitching. Snort. I don't know if it shows up, but the tunic has lots of hand stitching in orange, plus orange buttons. This was how I entertained myself on many of our road trips last year.

The tights actually came in this color, from (shhhhh) The Dreaded Wal-Mart last year (the year before?), when they marked them down to $3 each and I bought all the orange, purple, and pink ones they had in my size. Duh.

And just let me say once again that size creep DOES exist--sizes have gotten way, way larger. I bought a cool, old, worn chambray skirt--long and funky, and it was going to be so cool. It was a size 10. Here lately, I've been having to buy size 6. Now, for years, when I weighed exactly what I weight now, I wore a size 10 or 12. Loose, but not huge. This skirt must have pre-dated even that--at least 30 years old, I'm guessing--because the size 10 is tight around the waist. I know it's not me--I have that dress I made in jr. high, and I can put it on and have a pretty accurate idea how my body has changed in the intervening 40 years (not much, actually, except for, you know, gravity and wrinkles and stuff, because I never had some fabulous figure back then). So, no--it's not ME. It's some insidious plot, I think, to keep us confused about what size we wear. I think they hope we'll buy two of everything just so 1) we'll have the size we need and 2) we won't have to make the effort to return anything. We'll just put the other one in our closet for Just In Case.

It's truly evil.