1/6 in the Shirts Game
May. 4th, 2021 09:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerRecently I wrote about a clothes shopping trip where I bought an impressive six shirts— a record for me— and a few other items. As I noted in that blog I knew I'd be returning some of them for poor fit. The question wasn't if but how many.
Well, after a trying-on spree yesterday afternoon I now know how many. Five of the six got returned. Only four of those were for poor fit, though. One fit great but it turned out I already owned an exact copy of it from last year!
BTW, it wasn't just one shirt I bought or saw that was a dupe of shirts I already own. On the shelves were several models I bought at least a year ago. It seems the pandemic may have knocked the fashion/retail industry off kilter a bit. Fashion that used to move to the clearance racks after 6 months is now staying on the main shelves for a year or more.
Along with returning 5 out of 6 shirts I'm returning 1 out of 2 shorts. The shorts I'm returning are an exact dupe of ones I already own, too! They're a solid color in a classic style so it's no surprise to see them remaining on the shelves for several years. The shorts I kept are a dupe of ones I own, too, but they're hiking shorts that I'm keeping to replace a set that got torn on rocks last summer.
Bottom line, the returns are in, and I'm batting 1/2 on shorts and 1/6 on shirts.
Well, after a trying-on spree yesterday afternoon I now know how many. Five of the six got returned. Only four of those were for poor fit, though. One fit great but it turned out I already owned an exact copy of it from last year!
BTW, it wasn't just one shirt I bought or saw that was a dupe of shirts I already own. On the shelves were several models I bought at least a year ago. It seems the pandemic may have knocked the fashion/retail industry off kilter a bit. Fashion that used to move to the clearance racks after 6 months is now staying on the main shelves for a year or more.
Along with returning 5 out of 6 shirts I'm returning 1 out of 2 shorts. The shorts I'm returning are an exact dupe of ones I already own, too! They're a solid color in a classic style so it's no surprise to see them remaining on the shelves for several years. The shorts I kept are a dupe of ones I own, too, but they're hiking shorts that I'm keeping to replace a set that got torn on rocks last summer.
Bottom line, the returns are in, and I'm batting 1/2 on shorts and 1/6 on shirts.
