Back in my youth during the Mesozoic Era, buying womenswear was stressful.
As I wrote here on Wednesday, the Halloween excuse alleviated some of the stress, so I used that cover story the whole month of October and even during September.
But what did I do the other ten months of the year?
I recall shopping for a dress in a plus-size woman's store in downtown Waterbury. It was a local mom and pop shop and not a chain store like Lane Bryant. Actually, it was a mom and daughter shop; they owned the business and also served as the store's sales staff.
Anyway, I used a new cover story: that I was appearing in a contemporary version of "Charley's Aunt" at my school.
The mother and daughter were initially intrigued with my story and asked me questions about the stage production... questions that I was not prepared to answer. As a result, my cover story fell apart, but the ladies played along and helped me find a dress to wear in the "play."
When it was time to pay up, the daughter mentioned that their store had a lot of male customers and they were always welcome to shop there.
Like I said, this was back in the Mesozoic Era and I welcomed any resource that was welcoming to girls like me. So I was a return customer until sadly, the store went out of business.
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| Wearing Payless (Source: Payless) |
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| Romana Pernaa's Dr. Who Halloween femulation (Send me your Halloween costume photo and see it in the Femulator spot like Romana's photo above.) |