My size too, I suppose with everyone being much larger these days the larger sizes go first. Dry today will attack another border that’s mostly ground elder, one I’ve never got round to clearing. I call them my Wildlife areas,🙂
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
When I ask why there’s lots of smaller sizes left and fewer large ones I’m told one of two things … either ‘there’s no demand for the larger sizes’ to which I respond that if larger women knew they stocked clothes in their size they’d be more likely to go into that shop. No woman wants to be humiliated by searching for something in their size only to be told to ‘look in Evans for clothes 16 and above’.
The other response is that the ‘merchandisers’ who set out the rails etc don’t want the place to look like an Outsize Shop’ so they put all the larger sizes together ‘over there’ …. as she points to a dark corner where size 16 and above are hidden.
Once I burst into tears and shouted ‘I am not a freak!!!’ as I stormed out of Debenhams. A policeman watched me anxiously as I sobbed on Ipswich Cornhill. I was only a size 16 and hadn’t long had a baby!!!
I’m a bigger size now and I admit that places like M&S are much better for bigger sizes, but Next and Jigsaw and Karen Millen and many of the more stylish places have never stocked anything my size, even tho the styles would suit me. 😖
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You are definitely on a roll @Allotment Boy. Buy a lottery ticket! @Dovefromabove - have you looked at https://www.gudrunsjoden.com/? Your sort of style? A couple of friends here buy them - one garment per season as they are so pricey.
I like "Seasalt". They have a good range that go up to size 28, but not all their range. I buy summer dresses from them, Southwold or Bury Saint Edmunds. Gone off their jumpers as 2 shrank and they are quite pricey, though I have one about 6 years old that hasn't shrunk. I think I'm average 14 - 16, depending on the cut. When I was young 12 was average, which I was in my 20s and 30s.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I bought two linen summer dresses from Woolovers this summer and had to go down a size, much to my pleasure. Unfortunately I think I'm now back up again, too many weekends/parties away probably. Looked for a petite size jacket online last night but nothing caught my eye. Wanted something smart and tailored to wear out for dinner.
It's a good job we're not going out tonight however as I've just had minor surgery to remove blemishes from my face, neck and back. Covered in dressings now. My goodness, the local anaesthetic injections hurt! It was a good job I was blissfully unaware beforehand - and I shelled out wads of money for the privilege.
Paris trip sounds lovely @Allotment Boy, special celebration? Glad you've got your booster jabs booked in, we're still waiting for our invites and flu jabs.
Went to the garden centre for coffee with friend, bought a blue echinops,and a rudbeckia.,Then walking to the "local", no: 2 son I'm carer for rings. He never rings. Friend is aware and works in nursing home. N knew it would not be any good news. Complications with GP and house association for me to sort out,big problems,I needed that glass of vino!!! Managed to sort out the GP
Yes things have improved 😊 I’ve got several things from Seasalt … I also buy quite a lot from Lagenlook. But it’s taken a very long time for manufacturers and stores to acknowledge that not all large women are happy to dress as if we don’t care what we look like. 😠
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
What a worry, Nanny Beach, hope you manage to get everything sorted, and get your glass of vino, you deserve it for being such a dependable mum.
Poor Lizzie27, sounds very uncomfortable. However, as my late dad would say, you have to suffer for your beauty. I remember him saying this while curling my hair before a school concert. He was using the handle of his old soldering iron, heated on the gas stove, with me trying not to move as he wrapped strands of my hair round it. The smell of burning hair was terrible and the temptation to flinch away from the heat was almost overwhelming! Usually escaped with only a few tufts going up in flames. A bit of my mum’s red lipstick rubbed onto my cheeks as ‘rouge’ and I thought I was the bees knees!
I was the opposite @Ergates I used to get my mum to iron my hair on the ironing board.
spend a few hours attacking a ‘wildlife patch, don’t know what weed was worse, ground elder, buttercup, hypericum, woundwort, brambles. OH pick axed out a viburnum Tinus. Pulled all the old leaves off the Monbretia, daffs will come up in the Spring. May put a shrub there.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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Dry today will attack another border that’s mostly ground elder, one I’ve never got round to clearing. I call them my Wildlife areas,🙂
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Dovefromabove - have you looked at https://www.gudrunsjoden.com/? Your sort of style? A couple of friends here buy them - one garment per season as they are so pricey.
It's a good job we're not going out tonight however as I've just had minor surgery to remove blemishes from my face, neck and back. Covered in dressings now. My goodness, the local anaesthetic injections hurt! It was a good job I was blissfully unaware beforehand - and I shelled out wads of money for the privilege.
Paris trip sounds lovely @Allotment Boy, special celebration? Glad you've got your booster jabs booked in, we're still waiting for our invites and flu jabs.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Poor Lizzie27, sounds very uncomfortable. However, as my late dad would say, you have to suffer for your beauty. I remember him saying this while curling my hair before a school concert. He was using the handle of his old soldering iron, heated on the gas stove, with me trying not to move as he wrapped strands of my hair round it. The smell of burning hair was terrible and the temptation to flinch away from the heat was almost overwhelming! Usually escaped with only a few tufts going up in flames. A bit of my mum’s red lipstick rubbed onto my cheeks as ‘rouge’ and I thought I was the bees knees!
spend a few hours attacking a ‘wildlife patch, don’t know what weed was worse, ground elder, buttercup, hypericum, woundwort, brambles. OH pick axed out a viburnum Tinus. Pulled all the old leaves off the Monbretia, daffs will come up in the Spring. May put a shrub there.