A few months and several questions

kerri_dfw

RosaBernicia wrote: »

1950's style. Cut for an hourglass shape - think Marilyn Monroe.

Your image in my head is becoming more and more glamorous the more you tell us

RosaBernicia wrote: »

It mystifies me too, but apparently I'm odd. There are huuuge amounts of emotional attachment, social conditioning, schadenfreude, advertising budget and diet industry interests invested in those size labels and people do seem to focus on that number while conveniently ignoring the actual measurements. (I am swamped in a 10 from Ea5t or M0nsoon, but would barely squeeze a thigh into one from TopSh0p, so could probably gain/lose 2 stone between them while deluding myself that I'd stayed the same dress size.) I guess I'll just try and have more regular conversations with my tape measure :rotfl:


Rosa xx

I've got a 25" waist and 37" hips, I can't find anything that fits me in the shops no wonder I never go shopping!

Hope you have a lovely day off tomorrow, you deserve it hope they keep you away from work x

Knitting_Nora

Just nipping through...

On the sizing front, you might be interested in Retro Chick's campaign for clearer sizing on women's clothes (she's obviously been listening to Z!). She can be found here: http://www.retrochick.co.uk/ or on Face Book - and here's a link to her campaign: http://www.retrochick.co.uk/2011/05/25/campaign-for-clearer-sizing/

Nora.x

RosaBernicia

Oooh thanks Nora! :kisses3: Shared and signed up! a

I had no idea there was so much vintage stuff around... and it's so easy when it fits my shape and colouring and only requires red lipstick! :j:j

Rosa xx

RosaBernicia

kerri_dfw wrote: »

Your image in my head is becoming more and more glamorous the more you tell us

:rotfl::rotfl: *splutters tea up nose* I'm afraid that reference was the most obvious style reference I could think of for Z, not a self-portrait! Glamourous is not a word I would put in the same paragraph as me - I am too low maintenance - can't stand up in heels, can't use make-up more complicated than concealer and have mad hair!

I do like fab clothes but they have to be fab to me, and not involve being uncomfortable or stopping me doing things, and as I am basically an incurable hippie I don't like buy-it-cheap-replace-it-umpteen-times. I tend to buy stuff I adore and wear it out.

I haven't been paying much attention to my body or my looks over the last year or so, what with being busy, then frazzled, then moving. I think I said a couple of posts ago I'd forgotten how good it feels to go out wearing something totally fantabulous and looking good... and I intend to do it more. Am getting quite excited about all the vintage stuff I'm coming across, as I have quite a few bits already in my wardrobe that fit with the 50s and 40s stuff and since I am [STRIKE]pale[/STRIKE] porcelain-skinned anyway, I only need the red lips to add.

I think I might just make Christina Hendricks my new icon and re-vamp my wardrobe... fabulous, fun, and quite possibly effective in revamping my love life too :T

Rosa xx

RosaBernicia

kerri_dfw wrote: »

I've got a 25" waist and 37" hips, I can't find anything that fits me in the shops no wonder I never go shopping!

I've never gone looking for a 'green with envy' smilie before :rotfl:

I think you should join me in fabulous curvy vintage clothes summer. Would something like this (which I have hopefully arriving in the cream/ red next week) be helpful?

Rosa xx

ZTD

RosaBernicia wrote: »

1950's style. Cut for an hourglass shape - think Marilyn Monroe.

Is it just the shape, or is it the whole style/look/cut/neckline?

I had an ex who dressed almost exclusively in '40s style clothing - it was very flattering on her. Very. :drool:

RosaBernicia wrote: »

(I am swamped in a 10 from Ea5t or M0nsoon, but would barely squeeze a thigh into one from TopSh0p, so could probably gain/lose 2 stone between them while deluding myself that I'd stayed the same dress size.)

Yes, it's that kind of thing that it would put an end to, and all this "size zero" crap would vapourise. Twenty four inch waist just doesn't have that baggage.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

I guess I'll just try and have more regular conversations with my tape measure :rotfl:

Use your tape measure as a stick to make sure your clothes are telling the truth.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

She has offered to stay but only do work for our team :rotfl:

You must be doing something right.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

as she's fed up with the other stuff she's being asked to do... which obviously would suit me but is not likely to help my popularity elsewhere. Ah well.

You must be inconsolable.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Managed to get myself invited to a rather useful high level meeting on Monday where I will hopefully find out all sorts of useful things that haven't filtered down properly through the official channels, so that will be good (though again may not make me popular).

Doubly inconsolable.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Going to sleep in tomorrow and then go to either a museum or exhibition and might try and get the supermarket shop in the evening as will be in the city again on Monday and out Tuesday night. That would help with sorting lunches for work - which would be helpful as next week is likely to be bonkers - and I can always put stuff in the freezer.

Batch cooking!

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

On the sizing front, you might be interested in Retro Chick's campaign for clearer sizing on women's clothes (she's obviously been listening to Z!).

That'll be a first... :rotfl:

RosaBernicia wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl: *splutters tea up nose*

That's what happens when you aim too high...

RosaBernicia wrote: »

I'm afraid that reference was the most obvious style reference I could think of for Z, not a self-portrait!

And what's stopping it from being the new you?

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Glamourous is not a word I would put in the same paragraph as me - I am too low maintenance - can't stand up in heels, can't use make-up more complicated than concealer and have mad hair!

So, do you come here often? :cool:

RosaBernicia wrote: »

I do like fab clothes but they have to be fab to me, and not involve being uncomfortable or stopping me doing things, and as I am basically an incurable hippie I don't like buy-it-cheap-replace-it-umpteen-times. I tend to buy stuff I adore and wear it out.

I don't think that's a hippie trait, that's more a countryside trait.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

I haven't been paying much attention to my body or my looks over the last year or so, what with being busy, then frazzled, then moving. I think I said a couple of posts ago I'd forgotten how good it feels to go out wearing something totally fantabulous and looking good... and I intend to do it more.

:T

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Am getting quite excited about all the vintage stuff I'm coming across, as I have quite a few bits already in my wardrobe that fit with the 50s and 40s stuff and since I am [STRIKE]pale[/STRIKE] porcelain-skinned anyway, I only need the red lips to add.

It is a *very* glamorous look when done properly.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

I think I might just make Christina Hendricks my new icon and re-vamp my wardrobe... fabulous, fun, and quite possibly effective in revamping my love life too :T

Oh yes.

kerri_dfw

RosaBernicia wrote: »

I've never gone looking for a 'green with envy' smilie before :rotfl:

I think you should join me in fabulous curvy vintage clothes summer. Would something like this (which I have hopefully arriving in the cream/ red next week) be helpful?

Rosa xx

It's alright I've remeasured and it's a 26" waist, however this still means I can't fit into any clothes! Maybe if I eat more pies so that my stomach fits into the clothes my hips do, as my hip bones aren't exactly going to shrink without the aid of a sander

I am hiding from your clothes suggestion, I do not need encouraging xx

RosaBernicia

Yup, if the measurement on the clothes actually referred to the measurement of the body they were designed to fit this would all be so much easier.

I was so inspired yesterday I decided to ditch the museum plan and go shopping. (Also partly due to phone call from work and having to spend over an hour messing about trying to find a file, which I can't because my laptop is going strange this week and although the IT guys got it to talk to the work system again, it won't talk to the remote access. So sent them all the hints I could think of and they didn't ring back so hopefully they found it. Note, I did NOT volunteer to go in... progress ).

Anyway it was good fun looking around for stuff to help me be fabulous. But I realised one of the reasons I haven't been shopping this last year is because it takes up so much flaming time. I bought a bra in Bravissim0, but they didn't have the matching knickers so had to search for those in Debenham5 and online - no go, so it's being taken back tomorrow. Got a bit carried away in Ea5t where for once the 10 actually fitted - they never, ever seem to have an 8 in stock - and came out with both a polka dot jersey dress and a top in the same colour but am not sure these are going to pass the Happy Test (certainly not once I realised that for that price I could have another dress from Tara Starlet instead) so they will probably go back too. It's a lot of time that somehow could be done more efficiently. Oh and I went to try out those curve-cut jeans... braving the shop full of beautiful teenage assistants :rotfl: only to confuse one of them by telling him my actual waist measurement instead of the reduced-size jeans version. And then they didn't have the right size anyway. They were a slight improvement for waist-hip ratio but the too-big size I tried was baggy on the bum by then. So need to find right size. Or eat more cake.

I succeeded in finding some navy mid-height heels in M&S but will have to order those too because I need a half-size that wasn't in stock *sigh* and decided I need to go through my summer stuff before I buy much else. Otherwise I'll end up with stuff I don't need. Although I do know that the cord jackets I have been wearing in summer have to go - they're really too small now, the cord hasn't aged well and they're neither smart for work nor fab for weekends. And then I remembered the fab green mac I ordered last year and returned because even I couldn't justify spending £100 on a summer coat, when it doesn't need to be warm and a wrap might do just as well... and no sign of one on Ebay but they were still on sale and only in my size and with Quidco cashback so I can justify £50 for something fabulous enough that I remembered it for a year. (Note, I did not buy the blue one because it just wasn't as fab and wouldn't go with as much current stuff... see, progress again.) Though I think I should probably bow out of the Clothes Challenge in mortification.

Today has been an unscheduled duvet day as I kept falling asleep and as I was dreaming every time, figured my body obviously needed it. Only achievements = some bits of housework (am beginning to love how a much smaller place means much reduced housework. Hoovering means grab, do in 2 mins, return - not trek to fetch from cupboard, lug up stairs, do whole floor, trek back.) and the beginnings of some plans for masters project and ReVamp

Rosa xx

RosaBernicia

ZTD wrote: »

You must be doing something right.

You must be inconsolable.

Doubly inconsolable.

Ummm.

On one hand, I have done things right, I've treated people right, and I've done nothing that I need be ashamed of.

On the other, I have been learning over the past couple of years that being good doesn't necessarily make you popular. Yes, I am probably very slow in figuring this out - I just genuinely don't understand why people would have a problem with things done right and fairly. But apparently some people still somehow feel that success, even when fairly achieved, must be unfair if it belongs to someone else.

Things are messy at work at the minute, and likely to get worse. There will probably be redundancies again in a year or possibly less.

I'm not particularly concerned, since as I see it all I can do to prevent that is get on with doing my job well. And my length of service means that I'd get a good payout, so it's kinda pointless jumping ship - even if there were anything better to jump to, which there isn't since there's naff all out there and my current work is high profile so worth having on my CV.

But it's likely that there will be hassle, that some of it will be aimed at me, and that I'll find it upsetting even when I know it isn't justified. Guess all I can do is watch my back and make sure work stays at work, and that I keep to my hours instead of sacrificing time elsewhere.

Rosa xx

ZTD

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Ummm.

Ummm?

RosaBernicia wrote: »

On one hand, I have done things right, I've treated people right, and I've done nothing that I need be ashamed of.

On the other, I have been learning over the past couple of years that being good doesn't necessarily make you popular. Yes, I am probably very slow in figuring this out - I just genuinely don't understand why people would have a problem with things done right and fairly.

Go to the mirror. Have a careful look and make sure you're not me... :eek::eek::eek::eek:

RosaBernicia wrote: »

But apparently some people still somehow feel that success, even when fairly achieved, must be unfair if it belongs to someone else.

Should that have been "especially"?

The problem with doing things well, is that it shows up those who are doing things poorly. Many don't care they're crap, but some do and would rather spend time hiding that, than fixing it.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Things are messy at work at the minute, and likely to get worse. There will probably be redundancies again in a year or possibly less.

Go back to the mirror - have another check... :eek::eek::eek::eek:

RosaBernicia wrote: »

I'm not particularly concerned, since as I see it all I can do to prevent that is get on with doing my job well. And my length of service means that I'd get a good payout, so it's kinda pointless jumping ship - even if there were anything better to jump to, which there isn't since there's naff all out there and my current work is high profile so worth having on my CV.

You're lucky in that regard. I'm certainly not indispensible, as I once was - now I'm just the oil that keeps the cogs turning smoothly.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

But it's likely that there will be hassle, that some of it will be aimed at me, and that I'll find it upsetting even when I know it isn't justified.

Again - should that not have been "especially"?

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Guess all I can do is watch my back and make sure work stays at work, and that I keep to my hours instead of sacrificing time elsewhere.

Don't know whether you need a :T or a :grouphug: - so have both.