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canyonwalkerI used to be a bit of a clothes horse, buying a new shirt or two a few times a month when shopping. It was easy when I lived near stores that stocked fashion I liked— especially when I lived in LA, where even overstock stores had awesome fashions— and before I gained weight. Now it's highly hit-or-miss so I haven't shopped for clothes much the past few years. And by "hit or miss" I mean mostly miss. When I bought six shirts on a lark early this month I later returned all but one of them. At that rate, it's like why even bother.
Well, when the game sucks, you can play a different game. I decided to embrace clothes shopping online. I've avoided it for years because choosing sizes, colors, and textures online is so hit-or-miss. "But you can just order all the shirts and return the ones you don't like," people suggested. Relying on returning most items seemed to be abusing the system to me. But since businesses are encouraging it and shopping in stores has become highly hit-or-miss, too, I gave it a try. I ordered eight shirts online.
![Online clothes shopping - buy ALL the shirts! [May 2021]](https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/canyonwalker/33413618/724996/724996_original.jpg "Online clothes shopping - buy ALL the shirts! [May 2021]")
I tried them on this weekend, and I'm keeping them all!
Reaching a 100% success rate with this online shopping trip was helped by the fact I ordered shirts of brands I'm already familiar with, either from seeing them in stores or by owning different patterns/colors from the same maker. So I knew what to expect in terms of weight, texture, etc. for some of them. And I knew the right size, more or less. Plus, shopping online offers more in my size than I see visiting one store at a time.
Now the next challenge will be making space in my closet for all these new shirts.
Well, when the game sucks, you can play a different game. I decided to embrace clothes shopping online. I've avoided it for years because choosing sizes, colors, and textures online is so hit-or-miss. "But you can just order all the shirts and return the ones you don't like," people suggested. Relying on returning most items seemed to be abusing the system to me. But since businesses are encouraging it and shopping in stores has become highly hit-or-miss, too, I gave it a try. I ordered eight shirts online.
I tried them on this weekend, and I'm keeping them all!
Reaching a 100% success rate with this online shopping trip was helped by the fact I ordered shirts of brands I'm already familiar with, either from seeing them in stores or by owning different patterns/colors from the same maker. So I knew what to expect in terms of weight, texture, etc. for some of them. And I knew the right size, more or less. Plus, shopping online offers more in my size than I see visiting one store at a time.
Now the next challenge will be making space in my closet for all these new shirts.
