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New Glasses
Opticians' 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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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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Bring back tailoring, say I.
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And seconded on the tailoring.
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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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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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Mass production, feh.
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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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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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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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Catching up on old posts
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.
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World gone mad. Argh.