That wedding...
Nov. 3rd, 2006 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julesjonesThere is much angst happening right now because some of us, not to put too fine a point on it, are suffering from middle-aged spread...
I'm going to end up in a trouser suit at this wedding, I think. Because the last half hour of rummaging through the wardrobe has demonstrated that pretty much anything skirt-like bought in the last five years conforms to fannish rather than mundane notions of "formalwear", and anything bought long enough ago to look like something you could wear to a mundane wedding is either so hopelessly unfashionable that even I can see it's unfashionable, or it reminds me that I need to lose at least another two stone to be somewhere near the weight I was when I bought it.
(I don't normally buy things that conform to fashion to the point where they then look unfashionable six months afterwards, but things bought to wear to weddings are more likely than most to fall into this category, because they're likely to have been bought at short notice and/or under pressure from someone else in previous iterations of this problem...)
I'm going to end up in a trouser suit at this wedding, I think. Because the last half hour of rummaging through the wardrobe has demonstrated that pretty much anything skirt-like bought in the last five years conforms to fannish rather than mundane notions of "formalwear", and anything bought long enough ago to look like something you could wear to a mundane wedding is either so hopelessly unfashionable that even I can see it's unfashionable, or it reminds me that I need to lose at least another two stone to be somewhere near the weight I was when I bought it.
(I don't normally buy things that conform to fashion to the point where they then look unfashionable six months afterwards, but things bought to wear to weddings are more likely than most to fall into this category, because they're likely to have been bought at short notice and/or under pressure from someone else in previous iterations of this problem...)