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Prom Clothes Shopping
I’m exhausted. I have been out the whole day with my mom shopping and my feet are throbbing. Shopping just isn’t the same when you are out with your mom. I went with her to bugis today to shop for prom. My initial plan was just to hit the stores where I had seen some designs that I liked, purchased them and call it a day. However, my mom had other plans in mind. She was looking at shoes and bags, which I am perfectly fine with if I may add. But after looking at them for nearly an hour, it does get tiring.
The nice, and may I add inexpensive, shirts at Topshop didn’t carry my size. The biggest size they had, in all of Singapore, was a size M. And how do I know this? Because my mom made the sales lady call all their outlets to check, haha. Apparently G2000 carries vest now. I saw it on the rack when I walked into the store and browsed through their shirts. However, I realised that it really does look a lot like a waiter so I stuck to my decision to not buy it.
We were getting hungry so we went to Delifrance to have lunch first, before hitting the shops again. It just occurred to me today that Delifrance is actually affordable. Haha, I always thought that the cheapest meal there was at least $15. I wanted to use the 10% Giordano discounts that I had from open house, however, the Giordano at Bugis had closed down.
It was getting late and my mom had a doctor’s appointment at Tampinese, so we took a train down and continued shopping there. We went to TM’s G2000 to shop for pants. I choose a pair of frog mouth pants and was trying them on when I realised that size 36 was rather snug for me. Not to my utter amazement, the largest size that the catered to was a size 36. Why am I not surprised that they wouldn’t have clothes for fat people? It seems that more shops are catering to only toothpick sized people. Sighs, it makes shopping for enormous people like me really hard.
Seeing the circumstances, I was semi forced to get the more snug pair of pants. But my mom wouldn’t have it. She feared that I will continue to expand sideways and insisted I get something that required me to wear a belt. So she went around the shop and looked around before she found a few pair of pants which had size 38. Excellent, my waist breathed more easily after trying those on instead. Haha, my mom decided to take advantage of the fact that our dad had passed us his credit card to shop for the day. She bought me two more shirts from the place and a pair of jeans. The shade of pants I wanted wasn’t in stock in the shop so it would take a few days for them to send it over. It would than take another few days for them to alter the length before I would finally get it. They estimated an average of about 11 days before the process is complete. It was cutting the deadline a bit short because prom is just 16 days away. I guess its times like this having a kiasu mother pays off. She started using her skills in shopping to pressurize the poor sales guy into making sure that the pants are ready by the tenth lest she gives him hell.
We went to Isetan to look around for shirts. My original plan for prom was to dress full black. Yet, after looking around, I realised that there weren’t many nice black shirts for sale. Instead, a nice white coloured shirt caught my eye and I bought that in the end.
Somehow typing it all out doesn’t make it seem that tiring. But my shopping with my mom is definitely tiring. She is someone who must make sure she combs the entire shopping complex and finds the cheapest deal possible before she makes a purchase. And she walks so slowly that I have to take teeny tiny steps so that I won’t lose her in the crowd and waste time locating her. The whole process was excruciating, but I guess coming home with my shopping for prom settled is somewhat satisfying.
I just realised something too. You know how I’ve always said places like Neoprint shops and bubble tea shops are sexist for hiring on female workers? It seems that Best Denki only hires males to be sales assistant. I found out when I went to buy a new pair of ear phones today.
Hopefully the pants will be ready in time. If not, I’m screwed.
farcical-rants - 9:40 pm - Saturday, October 28, 2006
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