mutants

So I went shopping yesterday.

I drive for almost two hours to a new, bigger mall and go into all the regular stores plus a few new ones. First, is it me, or have prices become just unpayable? I don't recall ever picking up a price tag on a long-sleeved button up and seeing $68 on it and saying, "Cool, I think I'll buy this shirt!" I got Liam some little shoe-type things since he'll be learning to walk in the winter, and this woman at the shoe store was buying two pairs of shoes for her kid (the second set in three months, according to her, TMI). I picked up a few pairs of shoes similar, and the cheapest ones I saw were $42 for a pair of kids shoes. That the girl will run through mud in and grow out of in a few months. No thanks. Have you not heard of PayLess?

Secondly, am I a mutant, or does anyone else have trouble finding clothes that fit appropriately? Maybe it's the stores I'm going into, but all pants I saw either were mom jean like at the waist or were so low cut that you could almost see my underwear. Granted, I used to wear the real low jeans, but now that my stomach has no elasticity, I can't pretend I don't have a small muffin top up there, so I need some barrier. And it's not like I only hit the teenybopper stores -- I went into the Gap and the Limited, etc. Suffice it to say that the stores that had appropriate pants had NONE in khaki or a non-dressy material. I ended up buying craploads of stuff for Aidan, some for Liam, and all I got for myself at the mall was a pair of warmup pants and two sleep tees from VS Pink. I hit the outlets on the way home and at least got a few long sleeved t-shirts. No pants.

Lastly, note to clothing manufacturers: Perhaps there is somewhere on the planet overrun with tall girls who wear sizes 0, 2, and 4, but that is not the case for most places. In other words, if someone wears one of those sizes, chances are they are short. So why can I not find any of them in a short length????? I don't want to wear heels every day! If I wore a larger size, they'd have short, but that doesn't help me. And apparently, any specialty pants, like cords, aren't made in shorts for any size.

Screw you, tall people favoring manufacturers. It's the same thing with putting the smallest sizes of pants on the top shelf. You know it's just because they want to see us short people jumping.