{"id":17,"date":"2007-08-07T12:14:27","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T11:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2007-08-07T12:14:27","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T11:14:27","slug":"17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Shop – Shape"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have committed to virtual paper\u00a0in the past\u00a0my general dislike of clothes shopping, which (for\u00a0if you were\u00a0fortunate enough to have missed that blog on Aimstation)\u00a0\u00a0stems\u00a0largely from a lack of patience\u00a0of large crowded stores, unflattering changing room lights and shop assistants that have more interest in telling their colleague ‘how much Julie lost on the Cabbage diet’ than helping you purchase your item. It also doesn’t really help either that I am the shape of two squares hinged together in the middle, and getting anything to fit the right bits in the right places,\u00a0flatter my robustness\u00a0and present itself in a colour that does not\u00a0(as my mother says) make me ‘look terminal’ is a challenge in itself.<\/p>\n

It was therefore on\u00a0Monday, with a trip to Reading town centre planned, I drew in my breath\u00a0(helps to make my tummy look flatter) , donned my lucky pants and marched on into the ‘Oracle’ shopping centre (known locally as the ‘Orrible’) to see if I could find anything to help me with my clothes crisis. You see, lately something has taken over me\u00a0 demanding ‘out with the old, in with the new’ – something last week that applied itself to my wardrobe. As I now share hanging space with my ‘better half’,\u00a0it was\u00a0actually <\/em>time to thin out the fleet a bit and review of all of the things that either don’t fit, are too old\u00a0now, or were a mistake on purchase –\u00a0like the fitted pink\u00a0top with a buttoned high collar\u00a0which\u00a0makes me look as though I\u00a0am representing Russia at shotput. Having turned out two whole carrier bags worth of stuff however, I am now left with\u00a02 pairs of ropey blue jeans, a few t-shirts and some work trousers that – if I’m honest – have seen better days.<\/p>\n

I need<\/em> new clothes.<\/p>\n

My venture to Reading however was sadly less than fruitful, and thus I share with you\u00a0a further\u00a0grieveance of shopping….<\/p>\n

It is now my experience that if the current ‘fashion’ does not suit your tastes\/shape, you are largely buggered. This is because all high street shops sell virtually the same clothing, the difference being\u00a0an occasional bow or\u00a0button, or a split down one side.\u00a0At the moment the ‘1980’s appear to be once again ‘en vogue’,\u00a0and where leggings and flourescent pink tops never ‘really did it for me’ the first time round (oh dear,\u00a0I sound old) it would appear their remergence onto the fashion scene has not improved how I look in them either. Indeed all of the clothes I tried on in an attempt to join in with the ‘hip kids’, simply made me look like a sturdier cast member of ‘Flashdance’.<\/p>\n

I can’t even do a cartwheel.<\/p>\n

I am therefore off to the ‘Next’\u00a0 conveniently stationed next to Sainsburys before the weekly shop tonight, hoping they may stock some more’ conventional apparel’….<\/p>\n

Because the only stop left after that is BHS or Littlewoods…<\/p>\n

And I’m not that old.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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