I have this blouse I got for my birthday from Mither when we went shopping that I started out really liking and now I think I am beginning to see what my family is seeing. They all, every one of them, has expressed a severe distaste for this shirt. Even John, who usually thinks if it’s on me it has to be lovely doesn’t like it. I went terribly wrong somewhere. Well, I know where. In Kohl’s.
Does anyone out there have clothes like that? You know… you buy the thing and maybe wear it a couple of times and finally decide that you must have had some sort of stroke to have picked it out?
Mither, I’m sorry. But really. How could you have let me?
It’s OK, I love you and I forgive you.
The Offending Object-Please click to enlarge on it’s… offensiveness.
I don’t know if you can tell or not, but the sleeves and neckline have a strip of satin sewn around them and the sleeves tie in these things that are not bows, yet are big like bows. And since they are satin ties they slip, no matter how tight they are tied. So even though they start out pulled up and puffy, (yes, I really said PUFFY), they slip down and are hanging about my elbows the majority of the time that I am not in the actual act of yanking them back up and cussing adjusting them.
I don’t think it’s that bad, but then I’m fashion faux pas incarnate. The only thing I dislike about it is the gathered neckline, because necklines like that make big-boobed girls like me look droopy.
“…you buy the thing and maybe wear it a couple of times and finally decide that you must have had some sort of stroke to have picked it out?”
This happens to me WHENEVER I go to Vegas … sunglasses with purple or red lenses? HOT in Vegas, not so much in Portland. Sequined shirts? SEXY in Vegas, HOOKER in Portland. Black strappy S&M sandles, the norm in Vegas … actually they’re the norm in Portland too if you’re the tranny working in RiteAid downtown.
So um, yes. I can relate! But I don’t think that shirt is too bad … but perhaps I’ve damaged my clothing rep by the above?
You know it’s not THAT bad on the hanger. But, like Memarie said, it just flows out from my boobs and looks like a tent and that, combined with the puffy sleeves and large satin ties….It looks like one of those maternity tops from the 1980′s. When it’s on, anyway.
You wore it while I was still there and it looked really cute on you then. How have you changed? It can’t be the shirt.
NO. It’s frumpy. I am not. (I hope…)
I’ve seen worse… in my own closet even! For awhile I had a silk, long sleeve, leopard print shirt I’d bought at a thrift store. I never wore it. I was too embarrassed. But I kept it as a reminder of how bad my judgment could be.
My problem is that I don’t let go of things once they’ve run their course. I have a leopard print blouse, too. And I got mine when all that leopard print stuff was so “in”. Yes. That long ago. Now it just needs to leave.
Dude – cut that thing apart and use it as dustcloths or to wipe H’s arse. Don’t inflict it on anybody else via the Goodwill. While I have no idea what you look like IN it, I can imagine it’s not flattering.
On the contrary! I am SURE there is an 80year old pregnant woman somewhere in a third world country that would be delighted with my lovely blouse!