Adventures in Plus-Size Shopping

I went to Lane Bryant to buy new jeans because my old ones are both worn out and too loose. I was so excited to see if I was had gone down from a size 24 to the 22 I wore in college. But alas, I forgot that they changed to the new Right Fit jeans system, complete with its own sizes. I bought some jeans that look fabulous. But my new Blue3 is not as satisfying as seeing a 22 or 20, or knowing that I'm still a 24. I know I could have tried on other pants there, but even when I was a 22 I was anywhere from a 20 to a 24 in the other styles. Nothing is as consistant as Lane Bryant jeans, or I guess as they used to be.

I found a chart that converts from normal sizes to right fit sizes. It says that my new jeans are a 20. I think that they are more form fitting that I would have bought in the old style, so I still have no idea. Oh well, at least I have rocking jeans.

There were a whole lot of little reasons why I finally started this journey, but one of them was that my size 24 jeans were getting snug. So now that I'm probably down a size, and those jeans are too big, it feels so good.

Oh, and I found a jean jacket! With the world overflowing with jean jackets, you would think this wouldn't be a 23 year mission. Yet, every jean jacket I've ever found has made my shoulders look broader than the hulks, and was always too long so I looked all frumpy. This jean jacket is sleek, cute, and cute perfectly. And it's a 14/16...a size I mysteriously grew out of sometime last year.

So if my jeans are roughly a size 22 and my tops are back to a 14/16, then I am officially back to my sizes from college. I was a 20 and 14/16 in high school. Once I get past that, it's all virgin territory.