clothes that fit

spring is here and with the warmer weather comes my annual shopping trip for summer clothes that fit.

it's hell.

when did designers decide that all women my age are rail thin and want to wear sheer tops? i'm not talking about the junior department (gawd, i haven't shopped there in years). i'm talking the 'savvy' department at nordstrom. you know, the department for women who are out of juniors but not quite ready for the boxier cuts of the women's department? the savvy department is just a more expensive version of the juniors department.

i don't mind tight jeans, but i don't want to wear them with a skin tight shirt. hello? i've had two kids. my lowers abs are soft and roll over the top of my jeans. is it too much to ask for a shirt that hides the rolls?

and shorts. lord, the shorts this year. in case you hadn' noticed, bermuda shorts are in. which in itself isn't a bad thing - i like the longer length. BUT. the cut of them (everywhere) is ridiculously slim. ri-DIC-ulously slim. i have meaty thighs and, as my trainer likes to say, a big pokey (butt). i do NOT fit into these slimslimslim shorts.

am i just getting old and large or are the clothes out there just sized way too small? i don't mind going up in size - i don't! - but being 5'2" means that they swim on me.

what's a girl to do? i just ordered 7 various skirts from ll bean. still on the hunt for tshirts that are fitted but don't show every roll of my bra fat.

argh.