Here I am wearing my latest addition to my wardrobe! A Juicy Couture Blouse that I found on sale at Neiman Marcus.com. I love looking through Neimans catalogs and picking out a few pieces and book marking them. Then once in a while I see if it made it to the sale. Then I check the price. If the price still isn't low enough, I wait until it goes on a special promotion, like an additional 20% or 30% off then then I snag it. Hoping that it still exists in my size. If not , I just check e bay, and if it's not on e bay, then it just wasn't meant to be! Then, I might be just a little sad. But, soon something else comes along and POOF! I'm over it!
The fashion world has always favored skinny models to show off the latest trends. But it's the real women who actually buy them. Why does this make sense? Well I guess when it comes right down to the brutal truth, people buy things that look good. And lets face it, clothes look better when they are smaller. It's kind of like when I go into a store to try on shoes and the one on display that I am attracted to is a size 6 or 7 and then the sales clerk brings out my size (9 or 9/2) and I'm like "That's not the same shoe, is it? The one on display looks different!" The clerk tells me that it is in fact the same shoe. Suddenly, I don't want to try it on anymore. So, I just want to tell all you ladies out there who are not a size 4 in a dress that I get it. But we can't let it bother us. Fashion is everywhere and marketing is everywhere and the majority of it is big beautiful pictures of skinny people. Keep in mind, models in magazines have the b...
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