Lately I’ve been feeling blah. That’s the only way to describe it. Blah. Not particularly horrible; not particularly unhorrible. Blah. My pants are no longer comfortable whilst sitting, though they technically still “fit,” so I have decided to rubber-band the top button or latch. Becky and I went to Old Navy in La Frontera Shopping Center to the Old Navy with a Maternity department and I tried on my first batch of Maternity clothes. I am a size they don’t make: XS Long. Their extra-small pants items fit spectacularly comfortably around my bloated middle section, but were the WRONG length. I don’t mean capri-length. Those are short enough to be acceptable. I mean WRONG length as in, embarassingly longer than capris but too short to be real pants by my ankles. High Waters. Yes, that length.
I don’t think I will be getting any shorter as this pregnancy progresses, but my middle will surely get bigger… the problem with that and Old Navy is the fact that as their pants increase in size, they do not increase in length. The smalls, while being absolutely too big, were still as short as the extra-smalls. We did manage to find an XS Long pair of pants, but they were the kind with the HUGE elastic tummy for Women Stretched Out To There. At 10 weeks, I will not be caught in a pair of THOSE kinds of pants. Not yet.
Gap. Gap presents a whole ‘nother challange. Before I discovered J.CREW and Ann Taylor stores (thankyouverymuch, Becky!) Gap was my brand of choice. Gap has a maternity section. Yay! But, you can only order maternity online, at least here in Austin, Texas. With the dilemmas I ran into at Old Navy, I don’t think I will be paying for ANYTHING that I have not tried on first and deemed worthy of joining us in life and being on stand-by in the closet.
So, I am back with the rubber bands. They have done me well these past two days and no one has seemed to notice them yet. At least all my old pants are long enough.