Fashion and Body
Mar. 9th, 2006 01:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaznettiSome time between beginning this exercise program and the present I lost a roll of fat from the top of my butt. You'd think that this is a good thing, but that roll of fat was actually keeping my low-waisted jeans up without a belt. Now they slide down my hips in a very unflattering way, and I need to buy a belt. At the same time, my thighs are as massive as ever, so it's not that my jeans have become loose or anything.
I think I am losing weight, though; yesterday I bought a pink and lacy (but not too pink and lacy) skirt on sale; they only had it in a small, which in that shop is usually too small for me, but I tried it and it fit just right.
Today I'm wearing a dress I bought at Marks and Spencer's during the week I was in the UK. It's a blue print kimono-style dress, but in jersey. It is, I think, very flattering -- so flattering that I'm half tempted to instruct my husband to dash over to M&S and see if they still have it in the black-and-white print as well. Except that he'd be hopelessly confused and would probably bring me the wrong dress or something. Anyway, the dress only has one problem -- the top has a sort of faux-wrap to it, which gapes a bit and shows off a bit more breast than I like when I'm teaching. The first day I wore it, I was wearing a sort of push-up bra as well, and I had to wear my cardigan buttoned all the way up; today I've pinned it shut with a round pearl-and-gold thing which must have been my grandmothers. It keeps me from flashing my tits at anyone, but does rather draw attention to the region, rather than away from it.
I never did post about my love for M&S last summer, did I? Although this trip I didn't find any sweaters that I liked, I did come away with four bras in addition to this dress. (When I read posts about the trouble some people have finding good bras, I feel a moment of pity for those who are denied the pleasure of the Marks and Spencer's lingerie department. I do all my underwear shopping in the UK.) I like one of them so much I regret not buying it in many other colors -- but if I continue to lose odd patches of fat here and there (in other words, not on my thighs or belly) I may well go down a cup size, so it was probably better to hold off. And of course, I can't possibly send the BH up to buy a bra for me. He'd consider that grounds for divorce. If only M&S would stop displaying so many long, unhemmed, peasant-style skirts and blouses. Isn't it time for that look to be over already?
I think I am losing weight, though; yesterday I bought a pink and lacy (but not too pink and lacy) skirt on sale; they only had it in a small, which in that shop is usually too small for me, but I tried it and it fit just right.
Today I'm wearing a dress I bought at Marks and Spencer's during the week I was in the UK. It's a blue print kimono-style dress, but in jersey. It is, I think, very flattering -- so flattering that I'm half tempted to instruct my husband to dash over to M&S and see if they still have it in the black-and-white print as well. Except that he'd be hopelessly confused and would probably bring me the wrong dress or something. Anyway, the dress only has one problem -- the top has a sort of faux-wrap to it, which gapes a bit and shows off a bit more breast than I like when I'm teaching. The first day I wore it, I was wearing a sort of push-up bra as well, and I had to wear my cardigan buttoned all the way up; today I've pinned it shut with a round pearl-and-gold thing which must have been my grandmothers. It keeps me from flashing my tits at anyone, but does rather draw attention to the region, rather than away from it.
I never did post about my love for M&S last summer, did I? Although this trip I didn't find any sweaters that I liked, I did come away with four bras in addition to this dress. (When I read posts about the trouble some people have finding good bras, I feel a moment of pity for those who are denied the pleasure of the Marks and Spencer's lingerie department. I do all my underwear shopping in the UK.) I like one of them so much I regret not buying it in many other colors -- but if I continue to lose odd patches of fat here and there (in other words, not on my thighs or belly) I may well go down a cup size, so it was probably better to hold off. And of course, I can't possibly send the BH up to buy a bra for me. He'd consider that grounds for divorce. If only M&S would stop displaying so many long, unhemmed, peasant-style skirts and blouses. Isn't it time for that look to be over already?
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Date: 2006-03-10 12:43 am (UTC)Wow, at your workout. That sounds like a lot of steps.