Shopping Adventures

Shopping is a sport, but shopping for college is a marathon. It seems my shopping list is never ending and the route to the mall is now as travelled as the route to school. Today was no different. 

I will be the first to admit that shopping isn't easy, especially clothes shopping. Things are just always too long or too big and there are moments where it seems that nothing can fit. I've learned that lengths are never finite; pants, dresses and shirts can always be altered. 

Shopping for pants are the worst. Having short legs supporting an average sized body, finding a pair of pants that fit and are proportional and fashionable is like Goldilocks trying to find the perfect pot of porridge. The only difference is that Goldilocks didn't have to pay for her porridge whereas clothes cost money. These pants are from express and as you can see they extend past my feet. They fit around the waist and were comfortable yet the proportion was off. There are leather panels on the thighs which looked adorable on the five foot mannequin but on my legs they just took up room. So no leather pants for me.

 These are a pair of black jeggings, also from Express. As you can see these are even longer than the first pair of pants but I ended up buying these because they fit everywhere else and I can easily get the pants hemmed. If I tried to find a pair of pants that were the perfect length, fit my waist and were not found in the children's department I would never own a pair of pants. It's all about taking what I can find and channeling my inner Tim Gunn to "make it work".

These are the same pants from above just from the side to show exactly how long the pants are.





















These final pair of jeans were the most surprising. When jeans don't have stretch in them I usually have to go up a size simply because they have to fit over my dwarf booty. Yet when I tried on the larger pair they were too big so I had to go down a size and freaked out in the dressing room when they fit. Finding a pair of distressed or embellished jeans is hard because a lot of the time I'll find a pair of pants that have the details on the bottom part that would end up getting cut off in the hemming process. I was lucky that the distressing was throughout the jeans and the majority of the details would not be cut off. I had to get them. Who doesn't love a good boyfriend jean?








My shopping adventures today were successful but that doesn't always happen. I would be lying if I've said I haven't left the mall without shedding tears, yelling and/or walking out with nothing. Days like that will always happen but it's pushing forward to days like today that proves that I am like every other 18 year old girl and I can shop for clothes. I'll post images of me in these pants once I get them hemmed to show the difference.

Ta-ta for now!
-Jillian Ilana