I want to go dress shopping today at the designer discount store Loehmann's and am getting ready for it. Why, do you ask, are you "getting ready" for it? Well, it is the only store I've ever been to where there are no private dressing rooms. There is only a large room lined with mirrors where everyone bares (almost) all while they try on clothes. In the expensive room, one is expected to try on the clothes right there among the racks.
That was how things were the last time I shopped at Loehmann's, which was back around 1991. I'm very curious about how the dressing room practices have changed in the past 17 years or so, now that almost everyone has a camera floating in their purse and can anonymously post online pictures of unsuspecting victims. I'm also nervous about now having one of those bodies that I used to steal glances of in my twenties when I would secretly marvel at how women of a certain age can look decent with clothes on and positively scary without.
We'll see. For now, Im sporting my best bra and panties, and I just shaved my legs.
Friday, July 11, 2008
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Oh my. A store in the mall near where I grew up had one of those "all in one big room" dressing rooms. Completely freaked me out as a teenager. I think I remember walking in, turning around, leaving my would-be purchases, and making a bee-line for the exit!
It might be too late, but why not wear a bathing suit? I had to supervise an arena full of high school girls a few summers ago, and that's how they handled the communal showers.
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