Shopping spree...

[fajrdrako]

In all my life I've never done this before: gone out and bought a pile of clothes. I've bought multiple things at a Weekender party, maybe. But... first of all, I seldom scrape together enough money to buy more than one piece of clothing at a time, and then only when it's desperately needed: I have better uses for money, like books and travel.

Second, I need to feel I have a good excuse.

Well, losing 20 pounds felt like a good reason, and having earned a little extra money, I felt I could do it. So I did.

Cotton Ginny used to be my favourite clothing story - a Canadian chain where all the clothes they sold were made of cotton. It went out of business a while ago: I was disappointed. So were many of my friends - I know a lot of people who wear Cotton Ginny clothes. (So why did they have business problems? I guess the whole of Canada isn't like my friends.)

Just recently, Cotton Ginny miraculously reappeared.

I went last night with two friends, and we all bought clothes. Usually I hate clothes-shopping, but this was the ideal situation: and I found plenty of things I liked, and they look terrific, and best of all, everything fits. It made me all the more horrified by the ill-fitting shabby stuff I had been wearing. I can hear the ghost of my mother: "Now, Lizzie, you have to have some decent clothes!" Somehow I always have trouble remembering that.

This morning I'm wearing the new navy-blue pants and the shirt with the navy-blue diagonal pinstripe. This looks so good, no one will recognize me.

I'm going to try to save enough money that when I've lost another twenty pounds (a few months from now?) I'll be able to do the same again.