Monkling's Blog

If you know me at all, you will know I absolutely hate buying clothes. I hate looking through racks while fighting off salespeople. “No, I told you about 50 times now that I don’t need any help. If I do, I’ll let you know. And don’t even think you’re gonna follow me into the dressing room.”

I hate trying things on. It’s annoying to put things on, zip & button up, look in the mirror, move on to the next item. As a matter of fact, I hate everything about the entire idea of buying clothes.

The problem with disliking the whole clothes shopping experience is that I avoid it as much as possible. I do it only when I have to. Having to means I will wear an item of clothing until it is begging to be thrown out because it is so worn. As my son told me today, “Yeah, you go for the Hobo look.”

Inevitably what will happen is that everything will go at once. This means that every 8 years or so I will need to virtually replace every single item in my dresser and closet. We have hit the 8 year mark.

I have found a solution, however. Internet shopping. I’m telling ya, it’s like Christmas this week. Every day another package arrives in the mail. Of course there are a couple of drawbacks to not actually trying stuff on until after you buy them. For instance, as I rushed through one particular order, thrilled to discover they have pants in petite, I failed to look at just how they define petite. Uh, I’m sorry but there is no way in hell that a 29″ inseam is petite! What is this? Land of the Giants?

Also, it seems you cannot really tell how something looks unless you actually look at yourself in a mirror. When I tried on one pair of pants, sure they felt okay but looking down at myself, I didn’t like how they looked. Then I decided to act like a normal person and looked at a mirror. I then discovered that the pants looked pretty good. I was shocked! Who’d think a mirror could be so helpful?