It's all about the clothes
Sunday, July 27th, 2008 12:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniIt occurred to me this morning, at Con-minus-ten, that I am going to be traveling to yet another part of the world where it will be Hot, and that all of my summer clothes are either: (1) ratty t-shirts and jeans, (2) not-so-ratty t-shirts and khakis, (3) long-sleeved -- and that maybe I ought to Do Something About That.
I do possess one man's short-sleeved blue cotton camp shirt with block-printed leaves on it that I successfully finessed into a "jacket" for the purposes of Steve's parents' 50th Anniversary Party, pairing it with a black tank top, sorta-green khakis, and sandals. I was planning on reprising the look for Denvention, but that leaves several hot days on the calendar and me with a closet full of long-sleeved t-shirts.
Along about this time the caffeine hit and I realized that I could -- indeed, should! -- betake myself to JCPenney, where there was undoubtedly a Sale in progress, and provide myself with another couple camp, or, failing that, Hawaiian-print shirts. Directly after breakfast, I took off for the great city of Waterville and found that, indeed, Penney's was having a Sale.
Alas, it was a back-to-school sale; I had missed Hawaiian shirt season. Disconsolate but determined, I wandered the aisles, locating a very nice cream-and-brown embroidered bracelet-sleeved tunic at half-price, which will lend a much-needed note of elegance to my wardrobe, and a man's short-sleeved silk Hawaiian shirt, likewise at half-price, though unfortunately in blue (mind you, I like blue, which is immediately apparent to anyone who does look into my closet), woven with a pattern of white palm trees.
These additions should enable me to maintain an unprecedented level of Professional Decorum for those days when I am actually scheduled to perform, so I am, if not a happy woman, at least a less-panicked one.
I should mention that there were a lot of women's clothes on sale at Penney's, most of them entirely unsuitable for a six-foot woman in her mid-fifties who is carrying twenty extra pounds. I don't want baby-doll puff sleeves or figure (hah!) hugging shirts made out of tissue-cotton. I want casual tailored -- which is why I mostly shop in the men's section.
I keep thinking that there must, somewhere, be a store or a designer who has realized that the aging population of clothes buyer is becoming at least as important an income-stream as the Young and Beautiful population. Is this just a pipe-dream? Does such a store or designer exist? Where do you buy clothes?
I do possess one man's short-sleeved blue cotton camp shirt with block-printed leaves on it that I successfully finessed into a "jacket" for the purposes of Steve's parents' 50th Anniversary Party, pairing it with a black tank top, sorta-green khakis, and sandals. I was planning on reprising the look for Denvention, but that leaves several hot days on the calendar and me with a closet full of long-sleeved t-shirts.
Along about this time the caffeine hit and I realized that I could -- indeed, should! -- betake myself to JCPenney, where there was undoubtedly a Sale in progress, and provide myself with another couple camp, or, failing that, Hawaiian-print shirts. Directly after breakfast, I took off for the great city of Waterville and found that, indeed, Penney's was having a Sale.
Alas, it was a back-to-school sale; I had missed Hawaiian shirt season. Disconsolate but determined, I wandered the aisles, locating a very nice cream-and-brown embroidered bracelet-sleeved tunic at half-price, which will lend a much-needed note of elegance to my wardrobe, and a man's short-sleeved silk Hawaiian shirt, likewise at half-price, though unfortunately in blue (mind you, I like blue, which is immediately apparent to anyone who does look into my closet), woven with a pattern of white palm trees.
These additions should enable me to maintain an unprecedented level of Professional Decorum for those days when I am actually scheduled to perform, so I am, if not a happy woman, at least a less-panicked one.
I should mention that there were a lot of women's clothes on sale at Penney's, most of them entirely unsuitable for a six-foot woman in her mid-fifties who is carrying twenty extra pounds. I don't want baby-doll puff sleeves or figure (hah!) hugging shirts made out of tissue-cotton. I want casual tailored -- which is why I mostly shop in the men's section.
I keep thinking that there must, somewhere, be a store or a designer who has realized that the aging population of clothes buyer is becoming at least as important an income-stream as the Young and Beautiful population. Is this just a pipe-dream? Does such a store or designer exist? Where do you buy clothes?
