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redorchids) wrote2010-10-24 04:54 pm
redorchids) wrote2010-10-24 04:54 pm
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Ooof. Today is a tired day. Which may have something to do with the fact that my birthday party was yesterday and didn't end until fairly late this morning. Lots of people, yummy cake and awesome group singing at the piano. I'll definitely call it a win. Started today with having breakfast with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
intricate_life and watching Merlin. I feel like my opinions about last night's episode can be accurately summarised by today's icon. More Morgause always, please. :D
The next part of this update is long, so under a cut it goes.
I've been between a size 12 and 14 for years. Pretty much since I stopped dancing, went on birth control and trippled my cupsize in half a year. Also, I moved to France. Croissants found me. And Nutella. :) And sure, I miss having the old dancer body and shop for cool stuff in a size 4-6, but meh. If there's one good thing about getting older, it's definitely going from the omg-these-pants-are-too-tight-I-am-so-fat-I-need-to-stop-eating to a more meh-pants-are-too-tight-obviously-they-suck-let's-get-new-ones take on life and body image. I'm actually really happy with how I look now (something I definitely wasn't back when I was a size 4, let me tell you) so noticing that my normal pants had become a little snug, I basically just shrugged and went out shopping.
(My theory is that me having put on a few pounds lately is due to the fact that absolutely everyone I know is pregnant right now. My body's being supportive by mirroring theirs.)
Problem is, Sweden doesn't have a lot of plus size people. The average size for adult women is a 10. I'm a bit taller than average, which means that I often have to go up one size to get pants that are long enough (unless I can find a brand that does extra long legs on their pants. Not that common, sadly. I need to move to Holland) and "normal clothes" sizes here stop at 14. Meaning that 16 = heading off to the small, plus size part of the store with a peppy name like "XLNT" or "Big is beautiful". And where, for some reason, everything looks like absolute crap and fits like something sewn without a pattern by a designer who was both blindfolded and dead drunk out of the plainest, most boring and cheap-looking materials and lots and lots of rosettes and ruffles (which, WTAF?). Basically, every single piece of clothing I found looked like it belonged on the $1 clearance rack at depressed-old-catladies-R-us. It was depressing as hell.
After trying on the twentieth pair of incredibly ugly pants I wouldn't be caught dead in no matter what size they or I were, I basically said fuck it and stomped over to the maternity section at H&M. Where they have size 16 pants that look like cool, normal pants, just a size bigger. With the added bonus of being all stretchy and having that extra stomach tubey thing at the top that both does wonders for keeping you warm in evil Gothenburg fall weather and is comfy as hell. Found a pair of black jeans that are both really good looking and fit like a dream. And the tubey thing is SO COMFY, OMG. I am never getting a pair of normal pants again. :D
Happy Sunday, everyone!
intricate_life and watching Merlin. I feel like my opinions about last night's episode can be accurately summarised by today's icon. More Morgause always, please. :DThe next part of this update is long, so under a cut it goes.
I've been between a size 12 and 14 for years. Pretty much since I stopped dancing, went on birth control and trippled my cupsize in half a year. Also, I moved to France. Croissants found me. And Nutella. :) And sure, I miss having the old dancer body and shop for cool stuff in a size 4-6, but meh. If there's one good thing about getting older, it's definitely going from the omg-these-pants-are-too-tight-I-am-so-fat-I-need-to-stop-eating to a more meh-pants-are-too-tight-obviously-they-suck-let's-get-new-ones take on life and body image. I'm actually really happy with how I look now (something I definitely wasn't back when I was a size 4, let me tell you) so noticing that my normal pants had become a little snug, I basically just shrugged and went out shopping.
(My theory is that me having put on a few pounds lately is due to the fact that absolutely everyone I know is pregnant right now. My body's being supportive by mirroring theirs.)
Problem is, Sweden doesn't have a lot of plus size people. The average size for adult women is a 10. I'm a bit taller than average, which means that I often have to go up one size to get pants that are long enough (unless I can find a brand that does extra long legs on their pants. Not that common, sadly. I need to move to Holland) and "normal clothes" sizes here stop at 14. Meaning that 16 = heading off to the small, plus size part of the store with a peppy name like "XLNT" or "Big is beautiful". And where, for some reason, everything looks like absolute crap and fits like something sewn without a pattern by a designer who was both blindfolded and dead drunk out of the plainest, most boring and cheap-looking materials and lots and lots of rosettes and ruffles (which, WTAF?). Basically, every single piece of clothing I found looked like it belonged on the $1 clearance rack at depressed-old-catladies-R-us. It was depressing as hell.
After trying on the twentieth pair of incredibly ugly pants I wouldn't be caught dead in no matter what size they or I were, I basically said fuck it and stomped over to the maternity section at H&M. Where they have size 16 pants that look like cool, normal pants, just a size bigger. With the added bonus of being all stretchy and having that extra stomach tubey thing at the top that both does wonders for keeping you warm in evil Gothenburg fall weather and is comfy as hell. Found a pair of black jeans that are both really good looking and fit like a dream. And the tubey thing is SO COMFY, OMG. I am never getting a pair of normal pants again. :D
Happy Sunday, everyone!