Old Clothes
Sep. 25th, 2003 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lathanyToday I started the much-delayed task of sorting through my old clothes; working out which I might wear again (almost none of them) and which I was going to put in the charity/recycling bag.
Had you asked me earlier in the day what size I was at my thinnest (ten years ago) I would have said I had a few size twelves, but I was mainly a size fourteen. However, sorting through today, it was size twelves and size tens - admitted 'large' tens - but still a bit of a shock. All the trousers were at least size fourteen, though (out of interest - is there anyone out there who has ever been a skirt size larger than a trousers size ?) This gave me an odd feeling; not least because I remember wearing some of those clothes after I got married (the point at which I began the expansion back to my current size).
Additionally, whilst the clothes were about as creased as I expected (very), then seemed, well, duller. Possibly because colours fade over time, but I was convinced that my blue suit had been a nice, bright blue rather than the grey-blue it now appears to be. And the same went for my long brown-and-red skirt and my pale blue top.
It was also an interesting trip down memory lane and I had to force myself to throw away the things I would never wear again rather than storing them in the pretense that somehow my figure would change back.
Must take the twins out for a nice walk to the recycling bins.
Had you asked me earlier in the day what size I was at my thinnest (ten years ago) I would have said I had a few size twelves, but I was mainly a size fourteen. However, sorting through today, it was size twelves and size tens - admitted 'large' tens - but still a bit of a shock. All the trousers were at least size fourteen, though (out of interest - is there anyone out there who has ever been a skirt size larger than a trousers size ?) This gave me an odd feeling; not least because I remember wearing some of those clothes after I got married (the point at which I began the expansion back to my current size).
Additionally, whilst the clothes were about as creased as I expected (very), then seemed, well, duller. Possibly because colours fade over time, but I was convinced that my blue suit had been a nice, bright blue rather than the grey-blue it now appears to be. And the same went for my long brown-and-red skirt and my pale blue top.
It was also an interesting trip down memory lane and I had to force myself to throw away the things I would never wear again rather than storing them in the pretense that somehow my figure would change back.
Must take the twins out for a nice walk to the recycling bins.
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Date: 2003-09-25 11:44 am (UTC)That's technically not quite right - that point would be much earlier. We have photos ! Oh, and 'recovery', not 'expansion' !
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Date: 2003-09-26 03:27 am (UTC)I was convinced that my blue suit had been a nice, bright blue rather than the grey-blue it now appears to be.
Could this just be because when you get all misty-eyed and nostalgic, the cinematographer applies a sepia tint?
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Date: 2003-09-26 03:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-26 04:25 am (UTC)Surely the cinematographer would have applied the sepia tint to the flashback? Thus, it should appear brighter in the current time...
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Date: 2003-09-26 04:34 am (UTC)Oh yeah.
OK, in that case there's a grey filter on the *present*, and the flashbacks have the brightness pushed up.
Which, in cinematographic terms, means that the flashbacks are the real story, and modern-day lathany is just the narrator.
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Date: 2003-09-26 05:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-26 06:46 am (UTC)Whoever's available and will do it for the money.
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Date: 2003-09-26 08:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-27 07:34 am (UTC)True, and would be cheaper than Kate Blanchett (or whatever other jobbing character actor they find).
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Date: 2003-09-26 05:03 am (UTC)