[HPFGU-OTChatter] Leggy laments: The spidery and the stumpy (girly whinge post)

[Kathryn]

I'm sorry but I have about as much sympathy for you long-legged types as I do for a friend of mine who spends her entire time complaining that no matter what she eats she can't put on weight.
27" inside leg here, I have found one shop, ever, that stocks jeans I can wear without needing them taken up.
And on the subject of British clothing and shapes - none of us Brits can fit into the clothing either. And just because you're one size in one shop doesn't mean you'll be the same size in a different shop. I have blouses (all of which fit) ranging from GB size 10 to 22, of course all the sleeves are too long ....
Do any of you shorties on the list have the same problem I do with chest freezers in supermarkets? If they're running short on stuff you find that in order to reach the food you have to actually take your feet off the floor - I swear I'm going to end up inside one of the freezers one of these days, grumble.

Oh and on a totally different note - Spike Milligan died this morning :(

K
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tabouli 
  To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 1:58 PM
  Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Leggy laments: The spidery and the stumpy (girly whinge post)


  Ahhh, body image. Time to muscle in and claim some whinge-space...

  (Tabouli, who wasted endless hours of her adolescence staring mournfully at her legs in the mirror and *willing* them to grow long and slender, rummages around in her heart to find sympathy for the leggy Elkins, but emerges empty handed, and instead mounts her soap-box, standing on the very tips of her toes)

  Haaaang on a minute here.  You long-legged types think you got problems, huh?  Huh?  Ha!  At least long legs are in fashion - spare a thought for us stumpy types!

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  I've also been known to try on (very pretty, albeit pricey) clothing from the British chain Monsoon, only to discover time and time again that it's hopeless.  'What *shape* are those British women?'  I found myself despairing...




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