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By skeet | March 30, 2007
I paid my phone and cable bills today. I work all over the island. When I have work lined up in Mililani I always try to remember to check the due dates on those bills because both service companies have store-fronts there with bill-paying counters. Sure enough they were both due, so I went to the cable office on the way to my inspection and to the phone company after. I really should just stick a stamp on the phone bill and drop it in the mail. See, one of my favorite stores shares a parking lot with the phone company and that can mean trouble - the kind that hacks into my budget. If you’ve ever shopped at Ross you probably understand. Lots of designer clothes at drastically reduced prices, luggage, shoes, handbags and all kinds of gift items and things for the home that I never see anywhere else. Now I know I’ve told you that I’m not fond of shopping, but that’s not completely true. If I can do it at my leisure, in the middle of a weekday when the stores aren’t crowded, I can find it an enjoyable experience. I’m just now shopping for Christmas and birthday presents that I missed when I was broke, so I had a valid reason to do some browsing. I found a couple of teapots and a CD, so I was off to a good start, but came up dry after that.
I haven’t worn jeans in about fifteen or twenty years, but I’d been thinking about buying a pair. Ross was a good place to start, or so I thought. I had certain criteria in mind, inspired by watching too much of Stacy and Clinton on What Not to Wear. Stacy-and-Clinton-approved jeans will be straight-legged, dark wash, mid-rise. They are best worn with elongated, pointy-toed shoes (ACK!) and the overall look is supposed to make me look taller and slimmer. See, I really believe that this stuff is going to somehow transform my current short (5′3″) and average-in-a-downhill-skid-towards-dumpy figure. I’ve seen it work for women of various ages, sizes and body types, even some that were shaped somewhat like me. So I’ve bought the hype and today was my first atttempt to buy the jeans. I’d made some healf-hearted efforts last fall when the Stay and Clinton hype started to convert me, but today I decided to face the problem with seriousness and tenacity.
I won’t keep you in suspense. I didn’t find them. While Ross does carry a wide varitety of styles and sizes, they did not have jeans for me today. It seemed like everything they had in mid-rise, straight-legged, dark-wash jeans was made for either an Amazon or a tiny doll of a girl. I carried ten or twelve pair into the fitting room and not one was even close to being Stacy-and-Clinton-approved once adorning my body. I’m going to try to keep believing, though, because Stacy and Clinton say it’s going to happen. Stay tuned for further developments!
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