Today a decision was made out of necessity. If you have been reading my blog for any length of time you know that I am not a fan of fast fashion. I was born into a generation of children who learned to take shoes to the shoe maker until they could no longer be repaired. Clothing was handed down between siblings. Sometimes even friends and neighbors. Buttons were routinely mismatched if like me you were at the end of the hand me down chain. Holes patched if needed. However clothing was made to last like my Kitchen Aide K5A which I bought in 1978 from Fedco. I spent a whole paycheck on the mixer. It is still working and on my kitchen counter. The store I bought it from is long gone. They no longer offer parts to repair it. To get a comparable mixer I will have to go to the top of the line with a larger bowl. The first washing machine we bought lasted 25 years, you are lucky to get 5 years now.
I am digressing. All but 4 of my summer T-shirts were bought before COVID19. They are beginning to show their age. Most I no longer wear, but keep for emergencies. I have tried all my usual clothing stores and there were no T-shirts to be found. So we went to a store that is in my humble opinion the essential fast fashion store. They did have a lot of 100% cotton T-shirts. I started looking and got a few to try on. Most fit and looked ok. The difference between fast fashion and mid range fashion is the fit. John went through the piles of shirts and even picked some that I had purposely left behind. Some looked really good. He does have a better eye for what looks good on me even when I don’t. I even did the unthinkable for be, I bought shirts with patterns instead of just solids. With solid shirts , I can rotate them through many different seasons. With patterns there is a tendency to go out of fashion. I also shopped in the regular sized clothing section. Not a single plus size T-shirt in the mix. Yes, I am bragging, but I worked very hard to get here.
After a quick stop for lunch I promptly fell asleep for over 3 times the amount of time we spent shopping. That would be about 3 hours of sleep. So tomorrow I will pull out all the old shirts and decide which pile they will go to rags or Goodwill. Then I will carefully go through today’s purchase and decide if there are any that I really don’t need or want. Hang up the keepers and bag the returns.
Right now clothes shopping is very stressful on my body. This compromise worked out well even if the shirts don’t make it past summer. It is taking a long time to heal from the March 1 weekend. I am inching along in my healing.
TTFN
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