New Glasses
Sep. 8th, 2008 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheOpticians' special offers change bloody hourly. Anyway, today I tried a new optician and got much cheaper glasses than my previous n pairs. These ones are gain a flexible frame with light-sensitive lenses and anti-glare and scratch-resistant coating. So what's different? Ladies' frames are all too big for my face and these are CHILD frames. HELLO I AM GOING MAD HERE.
I am not a child. I seem to be a fairly normal sized person, when I look around me. But I wear child sized clothes and eyeglasses, can't cycle most adult ladies' size bikes, need child kit for hiking, camping, etc - it's getting irritating.
I know plenty of people smaller than I am, too, in every direction.
I am not a child. I seem to be a fairly normal sized person, when I look around me. But I wear child sized clothes and eyeglasses, can't cycle most adult ladies' size bikes, need child kit for hiking, camping, etc - it's getting irritating.
I know plenty of people smaller than I am, too, in every direction.
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Date: 2008-09-08 08:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-08 08:35 pm (UTC)At least clothes exist for somebody your shape. Try having a chest that says you should be 8 feet tall when you're my size. Sometimes I wonder if I could stick a belt on my shirt and see if I could get away with it as a dress.
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Date: 2008-09-08 08:39 pm (UTC)Bring back tailoring, say I.
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Date: 2008-09-08 08:48 pm (UTC)And seconded on the tailoring.
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Date: 2008-09-09 11:23 am (UTC)Tailoring, you can haz it. Except that tailoring today costs, as it always has, a significant fraction of the average annual income :-( Or you could sew your own clothes - which would take a large amount of time, another commodity most of us are short on.
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Date: 2008-09-09 02:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-09 09:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-10 09:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-08 09:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-08 09:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-08 09:37 pm (UTC)With glasses, it's possible to get the stems shortened. I didn't know this until quite recently. Still... kids sizes are better for lenses too, most adult ones give me that ever-to-be-avoided "owl" look.
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Date: 2008-09-08 10:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-09 10:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-09 10:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-09 10:48 am (UTC)Mass production, feh.
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Date: 2008-09-09 10:50 am (UTC)I'm not sure what I'd do if I needed to look respectable.
I'm a size too big for most of the girls' properly-fitted shoes, too, though as girls' feet get bigger this will change.
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Date: 2008-09-09 02:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-09 10:48 am (UTC)Though I am very useful when some of the local artists / jewellery makers are sizing things, because if it fits my wrist, it's a child size.
Watch straps are a big pain. I don't like leather buckly ones, I like bracelet style ones. Some of them can't be taken down to my size *at all*.
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Date: 2008-09-09 03:08 pm (UTC)Before that I wore ring watches for years and years, because I couldn't get a wristwatch to fit that wasn't from the Disney store.
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Date: 2008-09-09 11:05 am (UTC)Catching up on old posts
Date: 2008-09-29 04:31 pm (UTC)Incidentally, if you've ever wondered who those 'one size fits all' things actually fit, it's me. I've no idea why, since not much else does.
Re: Catching up on old posts
Date: 2008-09-29 04:54 pm (UTC)World gone mad. Argh.