New Clothes, Round One
We’re off to San Francisco for the weekend, a trip that always brings a good bit of excitement. This time, it also brought a bit of complexity—specifically, because none of my pants fit anymore.
This is not a problem in uber-casual Sacramento, where going grocery shopping in one’s yoga pants, even if one is not going to or returning from a yoga class, is the norm. When I’m working here at home, walking around with my pants unbuttoned matters to no one. Yet neither of these options is viable in San Francisco. Beth lent me a “belly band” to minimize that open-button look, but I don’t yet have any shirts long enough to make that work. My t-shirts are alarming short and tight now in a way that is simply not flattering.
And so last night Andrew and I embarked on a quasi-maternity-clothes shopping trip. I really just need a decent outfit that I can wear in this in-between time, before I really start showing—something that will tide me over for a while. Or at least for this weekend. It seems like my belly popped overnight—who knows what I’ll look like by next week, or the next? Stretchy leggings from Express (size large—a first) and a cute tunic top from Macy’s, plus two long t-shirt-type tunics from Target, should hold me over quite well until the real body-changing begins.
This is not a problem in uber-casual Sacramento, where going grocery shopping in one’s yoga pants, even if one is not going to or returning from a yoga class, is the norm. When I’m working here at home, walking around with my pants unbuttoned matters to no one. Yet neither of these options is viable in San Francisco. Beth lent me a “belly band” to minimize that open-button look, but I don’t yet have any shirts long enough to make that work. My t-shirts are alarming short and tight now in a way that is simply not flattering.
And so last night Andrew and I embarked on a quasi-maternity-clothes shopping trip. I really just need a decent outfit that I can wear in this in-between time, before I really start showing—something that will tide me over for a while. Or at least for this weekend. It seems like my belly popped overnight—who knows what I’ll look like by next week, or the next? Stretchy leggings from Express (size large—a first) and a cute tunic top from Macy’s, plus two long t-shirt-type tunics from Target, should hold me over quite well until the real body-changing begins.
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