<p>UNITS!!! That is what it was before Multiples. I remember the Valley View Multiples store (back when VV Mall wasn’t scuzzy). </p>
<p>I can wear some capris- even to work. Depends how they are tailored. Some are just like short trousers and look good with a blazer and flats.</p>
<p>I think shorts are tricky. I wear them, but some of the cuts are SO short. I don’t get anything with writing across the butt. Well, there’s the pair from a race that I don’t leave the house in.</p>
<p>Actually, the capri day with my mom is one I cherish. She loves to go shopping with me. She is now 80, rarely drives on her own, and looks forward to a day without dad. She always wants to buy me “a little something” on these excursions. We were in Talbots (no comments, please) and she just thought I had to have these capris. The look on her face when she saw them on me was priceless. She didn’t want to hurt my feelings and she was so disappointed that they didn’t look good. I just started laughing so hard when she gently gave me her verdict. Then she started laughing and it was just a great moment when you know there will never be anyone who loves you like your mom.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>toneranger, losing 10 lb is doable! I lost about 8-10 lb in 3 months. H and I started running every evening, I’m doing free weights (H is too pooped after the run to do anything else), and my family eats off of salad plates. I feel exteremely good about my body despite the somewhat stretched out skin around my waist where the fat used to be (I think a few more weeks of ab strenghthening exercises will take care of that). Now I need to take care of maintaining my current weight, but I have no desire to be as skinny as I used to be in my 20’s. I was so thin my face looked like I escaped from a concentration camp, although I ate like like a horse.
However, losing that weight created a slight problem for me - some of my previously perfectly fitted clothes look sloppy and too big on me! When I mentioned that to H, he said, “What’s the problem - just go shopping!” Yeah, right. Shopping for fall happens in February, when the good stuff I want goes on sale.</p>
<p>Capris get a bad rap, but the key is in the length. Mid-calf will shorten and widen the look of anyone’s legs - it’s better to get something that hits either higher or lower.</p>
<p>Agreed - the capris I have on right now (my current favorites!) fall just a couple inches above the ankle.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>I think one of the problems is that many of us busy moms sort of “speed shop”…we have 30 minutes until we have to pick a kid up from something so we run into Old Navy and try on a pair of capris and if they aren’t too tight we buy them. What we SHOULD do is to shop when we have plenty of time and go into the dressing room with capris of various lengths and widths, together with shorts of various lengths and widths, then we could compare and come to a wise decision…dream on, right?</p>
<p>abasket, I agree - most husbands are useless when it comes to style advice.</p>
<p>True Missypie…</p>
<p>BTW, Old Navy clothes never fit me right…even the tops seem to have WAY too much fabric!</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>For Christmas, six weeks after I’d had Baby #3, Husband bought me a very form fitting knit dress … in one way it was flattering that he thought I could pull off a dress like that, but short of surgical intervention, that type of dress would never look good. It was never worn.</p>
<p>Re: Units clothes: I wore one outfit to a family wedding. The best thing about it was that the pieces made such fun dress-up costumes for my D and her friends about 6 months after purchase. We could make them into all kinds of costumes.</p>
<p>I think Old Navy has recently redone their sizing ( or I benefited from inheriting the jeans from D- cause I didn’t have to try on twenty pairs to find the ones that fit), usually I rarely go there- ( although I do like their stuff for the price) but being petite it doesn’t fit me right- however when I was downtown in San Francisco lately, I was frustrated cause I couldn’t find a bathroom, not even at Starbucks, who told me the closest one was at Old Navy, so I told H * I would be right back*, ;), of course it was on the second floor, so I * had to* go by some really cute tees in great colors.</p>
<p>I only bought two plus I bought H a Seahawks tee.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>My H is an exception. He actually helped me in defining my style when I first met him. He took me to all the expensive stores that i wouldn’t normally go to, patiently sat in the dressing room to edit my selections. He would tell me when colors didn’t work together, even when different shades/pattern didn’t work together. In the beginning he would even say, “Ugh, I wouldn’t go out like that.” It may sound like he was controlling, but I really didn’t have anyone to help me with it before. His input did pay off. I always had people compliment me on my clothes at work. They want to know if I had a personal shopper. Over time, I have found clothes that fit me well. My girls are very well dressed, not because of their dad, but because of their mom.
Even at ages 16 and 20, I could still buy clothes for them. Their friends are often surprised that their mom buys them clothes.</p>
<p>^^^^sounds like a keeper</p>
<p>Ah, what a terrific husband…and expensive shops at that! Mine is the opposite…if I took him shopping here would be the conversation:</p>
<p>Me, wearing a dress that looks fabulous: Like it?
Him: How much does it cost?
Me: $150
Him: Don’t like it.</p>
<p>Me, wearing at baggy sack of a hideous dress: Like it?
Him: How much does it cost?
Me: It’s on clearance for $13.99
Him: I love it.</p>
<p>^^Oldfort, you are lucky, your H is a big exception :). I have to say that my H who was initially “allergic” to *What Not to Wear *now watches it with me. Oh, and after a certain development he’ll have to watch *Say yes to the dress *even closer ;)</p>
<p>Our kids wear clothes I buy for them. yD likes to go shopping with me, and amazingly doesn’t mind having me in the dressing room with her. When she went shopping with a friend and helped her put together an outfit for her upcoming interview, the friend asked, “Where did you learn this stuff about clothes?” D said, “My mom taught me!” I guess I’m not a dinosaur when it comes to style :).</p>
<p>It is very dangerous for me to shop with my beautiful, devious older daughter. She tries to talk me into buying as much as possible so that then I won’t balk at buying stuff for HER on the same shopping trip.</p>
<p>My youngest would never let me pick out her clothes- she would sooner go naked.
When she was little she would latch on to one outfit and wear it everyday- I would then have to comb the stores to try and replicate it.
She now wears things she would never wear before ( she came home from India with all kinds of harem pants for example 
), but it helps to be tall and slender ( and young).
My oldest let me pick out her clothes and now also wears her sisters handme ups as well , but my H is totally non interested in clothes.
He wears what he has worn forever- 501s, tee shirt, flannel shirt or sweatshirt( same size as when he was 17)
He can’t even tell if something looks inappropriate on me, if it shows off my T & A, he likes it :rolleyes:</p>
<p>missypie, two weeks ago when we were on vacation, H saw a really cute summer dress in a store window and decided that I had try it on (I wanted to take his temperature just to make sure he was not ill because that was an unusual proposal coming from him).</p>
<p>H: try this on!
Me: How much is it? Ohhh, $125 for a dress? It is not on sale!
H: try it on.
(I try it, and, of course, it looks good on me)
H: See, I told you!
Me: How about this one? It is on sale!
H: You are not a grandma yet.</p>
<p>Of course, he bought the dress, and now I have an expensive summer dress hanging in the closet that I cannot wear for another 10 months :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I’m lucky to have a H who likes to help me pick out clothes. He has a good eye for proportion which is hard to do for yourself. Even if the fit is good, you can’t always tell if the length(or width) is right for your particular size, build, height. He even helped me pick out boots last week. There are so many heights available now, it’s a bit confusing. </p>
<p>I’m not sure why he likes to do it. I think he likes to see me “dress up”. I enjoy clothes so much more now than when my kids were little. There’s something about being the mother of young children that is so de-sexifying. I felt frumpy most of the time (and I was 25 when I had my first!). I guess I’m lucky that my body hasn’t changed much, but the biggest thing is my attitude. I don’t have to look like anyone’s Mom anymore (why do we do this to ourselves?). Now, I see Moms in their 30’s and I can tell they’re in that same place I was in 20 years ago. I breathe a private sigh of relief! You know, being 50 is pretty great.</p>
<p>BunsenBurner: now your H needs to take you on a winter getaway to a warm place so you can wear your pretty new summery dress!</p>
<p>Mousegray: I had NO money when I had young children and thus not much style. My goal was to wear clean clothes at that time! I found I had no energy to even try to be stylish back then.</p>
<p>I have lost 35 pounds over the last year or so, so I had to get almost all new clothes. That really focused my attention on current fashion. It was hard to get rid of all my nice larger clothes, but also a good problem to have.</p>