Answers to my most frequently asked question!

Where do you shop?

Now I'm just like any woman ... I LOVE to shop! I love clothes and shoes, more than  naturually healthy! I like to think that I have good style, so it's flattering when people ask me where I shop. However, I know the real question is : "Where do you FIND clothes?" So I'll let you in on my secrets.

It's blatantly obvious that this world was not made for me, and women like me. My mom was very clear that the world was never going to "fit" me. I litterally had to "rise up" to meet the world. and that's what I've done. Nobody sees the everyday things that I do, in my everday life, to fit the world. You never see the step stool that I drag around the kitchen to make dinner. Very few see me climb up shelves at stores to reach what I need. When my spiderman routine fails I resort to throwing things to know what I need off the higher shelf. Very few have asked to look inside my car, to see how I drive. Although, I know most are curious. So the most apparent thing that people do notice is the way I dress!

From the waist up I am the size of an "average" 30 year old woman. I wear a size medium in my shirts, and shop in the junior and misses sections of stores. ('m probably gonna need to give up the junior's section pretty soon! (shopping in the junior's section was on the list of things to stop doing once you're 30!) From the waist down is a totally different story. I used to wear children's pants, and just have them taken up slightly.  But I am not built like that anymore. I filled out in areas that 9-year-olds don't even know they have.

I hate nothing more than having to pay to have clothes altered. That gets expensive, and prevents me from buying any pants with detail below the knee. It was clear that was not going to work, for me. So I decided to try women's capris ... BINGO! Capris fit me like pants. Lucky for me they make lots of styleys of capris and gaucho pants! I've got them in denim for jeans, khakis and even dress. I only have 2 pairs of dress pants that I've had taken up. Then I wanted to wear capris, that would actually be capris on me. In come Bermuda shorts!! This became a huge fashion statement. For me, like magic, they were capris!

Dresses took a little less creativity. Knee lengh dress fit me like gowns. (I have 3 of these.) Dresses that I want to be "short" or of cocktail length .. like th one I wore to my 30th ... those are a bit harder. I found if you go into neighborhoods that cater to woman who don't exactly want to look "classy" VOILA!

Shoes have been my biggest taskI used to fight through shleves of kids shoes looking for the one pair that didn't have barbie, lights, or obnoxious flowers as their main feature. Now some kids shoes do work. Most of my sandles come from the girls section of Target. My heels ... I found a wonderful store in CA, that I shop on the web. They make shoes for litle women. All of my heels are from there www.Cinderellaofboston.com.  They're a bit pricey but they give me the opportnity to wear great shoes, that compliment a great outfit and feel like a woman ...

And that is how I do it!