Have you ever…
Jun 13, 2008 Feminism/Politics, The Story of My Life
worn a new outfit for the first time when you’ll be gone all day only to discover that the new outfit creates issues that you cannot fix until you get home?
(Subtitle for this entry: My skirt is falling down and I don’t have a safety pin)
June 13th, 2008 at 11:23 am
You could walk over to my office and ask me for one.
A few years ago I accepted the fact that for everyone seems to assume that I will have safety pins, pain relivers, bandaides, tampons, etc.. I now have a drawer of supplies.
I even have a needle and thread.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Here’s a sad, sad thing Yondalla — I don’t have safety pins at home either. Or tampons. (I use a keeper, which is like the diva cup.) Twice now I’ve let down a visitor who is in sudden need of pad/tampons so I’m just going to buy some to have on hand. I just never think of it!!
June 13th, 2008 at 11:42 am
I’ve been known to use either a stapler or duct tape in the same such situation.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Hmmm, I wonder where they keep the staplers around here???
June 13th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Yeah, similar thing has happened to me, but with supposedly no garter stockings. The kind that have the grippy silicon stuff at the top. Well, they lost their grip mid-day, and needless to say I was not able to take 5 steps without stockings down to my feet. Bit of a challenge.
June 13th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
I wore a new shirt on a job interview Wednesday, I bought the shirt Tuesday night at Meijer’s Fashion Place. I think it is so handy to be able to get a new outfit and groceries all at the same time. I digress…
So, I run to the restroom when I get to the job interview and this shirt, made to look like two shirts is hanging all wrong. The neckline is hanging too low, OMG where did that crinkly skin come from, and those scratch marks right across my chest? (I of course must have done that not thinking of my easy to welt skin) It’s grabbing in one palce and too loose in another.
What is truly hilarious is the woman I interviewed with does a once over when I walk into her office (we are about the same generous size) and starts telling me about the great deals she just got at Macy’s sale. Then she insists on giving me two $10 off coupons which will expire at 1pm the same day. Well, I am not a shopper but I hustled myself over there after the interview and I actually found some great deals on a few items that really fit. AND I got there in time to use the coupons. I even paid less than I did at Meijer’s Fashion place. Oh, and despite the shirt fiasco I think I got the job.
June 13th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Laura, that is awesome!! And here’s thinking good job vibes atcha!
June 13th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
I once wore stockings that kept falling down (I hate tights and pantyhose, so I was testing out stockings). As I was walking around, they’d keep falling down, and I’d have to reach under my skirt to pull them up, or let them bag around my ankles. At some point, I was able to take them off, but not before looking like a nut for a little while.
June 13th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Hey, Kimmb (and why are you spelling your name all wrong???) I saw Diane Warren at this restaurant panel I was on last Monday and I was immediately transported back to the deli and had the urge to go get more pickles from the back. She scares me. Still. Did I tell you that Madison’s mom was working there for awhile? She was in the kitchen! And she was scared of Diane, too! (I know you weren’t — you’re made of stronger deli stuff!)
June 13th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Duct tape, baby!!!
Ask me sometime about the morning my boss came into his office and found me hiding behind his desk, laying on the floor with my hands up my skirt. My pantyhose were way too small and I’d done the penguin walk all the way from the subway. My boss was always late, and his office was a lot closer to my cubicle than the ladies room, so I was making a private emergency adjustment that unfortunately looked like something else entirely; something that’s maybe kinda inappropriate for the office. That was 20 years ago and I still blush when I think about it. Eesh.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
I wore a dress that needed a slip under it. I didn’t realize I was flashing the whole office (the light filtering through the window made my dress totally see through) until a kind soul suggested I go home and put one on. I pretended like I owned one and went home to change and then I pretended I couldn’t find it hence the new outfit.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
I have problems with half slips,. The elastic always break. When I lived in Oregon I was invited to come along with a friend who had a meeting with an OR State Rep at her home to discuss safe havens. We got out there, I walked in the door, and my slip hit the floor. Luckily, the State Rep was preoccupied with my friend and didn’t see it. I acted like I dropped something, reached down and was able to ball it up in my skirt and hold it at my side. I sat the whole time in her living room holding on to it.
June 14th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Marley, this sounds so much like something I would do that I wonder if you’re sure that wasn’t me. Seriously. Also we need to talk about that movie festival somehow. I was thinking about it because I just watched Mary Stevens MD with Kay Francis.
June 14th, 2008 at 10:59 am
This one wasn’t me, but just this week I noticed that the dress Hannah was wearing seemed a little big. I buy big, though, so I just kind of shrugged it off… until she jumped up and down and the dress FELL OFF, pooling quite prettily at her feet. Heh.
June 15th, 2008 at 6:05 am
No, things like that never happen to me. I breeze through life effortlessly.
June 15th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Ahh, KimKim! Somehow I knew this would be true for you!!!!