Does It Ever Bother You When....

For my first blog post, I wish to turn my attention to the comsumer of many females [and some males, who will remain nameless] money. Thats right, the hard earned cash we rake in after the tax man is finished and all our bills are paid off.

It is...the fashion industry!

Don’t get me wrong, I love fashion. My dad says I spend too much money on clothes as it is, so I’m not exactly sitting on a cushioned chair laughing at everyone else. But doesn’t it bother you that clothes [at least in Australia] are expensive?

So tonight, I turn my attention to some pet peeves.

1. Sizes. Why does it ALWAYS seem that you find the perfect outfit and its too small, or they don’t have the right size in stock?! Shoe stores do that too, for some reason. And whats with the sizes? Everything fashionable is never big enough.

I’m rather cuddly myself, a nice fourteen in the bust and a size 16-18 in the bottom half. There is nothing, count ‘em, nothing in my size that remotely looks fashionable in any of the ‘popular’ stores like Portmans [thank god for Crossroads].

2. Whats with the fashions anyways?! Everything is so…ugly! I would not be caught dead in 99% of the things that get paraded around on the catwalk, why wou7ld anyone buy them anyway? How can you call that fashionable? I mean, I wouldn’t even make my dog wear the stuff from Guicci and Prada and Stella McCartney. And why, when the ‘fashions’ come into stores, do they look nothing like the catwalks? I think I smell a rat…

3. Designer underwear.
Now, for a single girl like myself, underwear made by Jennifer Hawkins for example, really has no use unless you meet a guy to shag down at the local nightclub and they won’t remember what you’re wearing the next day anyway. Why bother? I mean, who would parade around in some of those lacey things just to stare at yourself in the mirror?

Speaking of the brassiere…why can’t I find a bra that FITS?! There is nothing in my price range that can even get around my left breast. Same with briefs. Its fishy.

4. High heels. Pure evil! How can ladies walk in some of the shoes I see on the street? The heels would snap the moment pressure was put on, and why pay all those thousands of dollars to get your feet fixed after you wear heels that nearly dislocate your feet?! Yet, this is fashion.

So...is fashion really fashion? Or just an excuse to make clothes with the leftovers from wrapping presents?

You be the judge!