In college, a friend of mine put on a dress and said she hoped it would draw the eye up to her chest and down to her legs, distracting from her midsection.
It was the only time I heard someone articulate a goal that is central to women's fashion -- accentuating your good points, downplaying the trouble spots.
Mine have changed.
I had to lug my carcass uptown today to shop at the only "real" maternity store in Manhattan (if anybody knows of any others, I'm all ears; variety is nice). I got some jeans, a sweater, and some clothes for Miami, where I'm headed in a couple of weeks.
The shorts and short skirts (not sluttishly so, just above the knee a few inches) that used to look good on me? Now they make me look like a heifer.
The dresses with kind of a wrap top that I used to, um, not fill out? Now they look blossomy.
So I left the heifer clothes in the stall and bought the blossomy dresses.
My mother didn't raise any fools.
It was the only time I heard someone articulate a goal that is central to women's fashion -- accentuating your good points, downplaying the trouble spots.
Mine have changed.
I had to lug my carcass uptown today to shop at the only "real" maternity store in Manhattan (if anybody knows of any others, I'm all ears; variety is nice). I got some jeans, a sweater, and some clothes for Miami, where I'm headed in a couple of weeks.
The shorts and short skirts (not sluttishly so, just above the knee a few inches) that used to look good on me? Now they make me look like a heifer.
The dresses with kind of a wrap top that I used to, um, not fill out? Now they look blossomy.
So I left the heifer clothes in the stall and bought the blossomy dresses.
My mother didn't raise any fools.
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I can't help you out with maternity stores in Manhattan specifically, but I think Target sells maternity clothes too (read, inexpensive?).
Roxanne - I do that all the time.
Kitkat - under 20, wow. There's a Target in the Bronx, but it's such a hike :(