My Shopping Nightmare

Love this look...but where to find all of it....and would it really fit me?!

Matt forwarded an invite to me for a holiday party.  He had no idea that doing something as simple as that would send me into a tailspin.  If I tell you that it is a party at the multi-million dollar home of his CEO, can you relate?  If you have absolutely no idea of what frenzy I am talking about then you are the well dressed woman I envy.  You are the woman who has a closet full of stylish clothes, and loves to shop for said wardrobe.  You are the type of woman that can walk into any number of stores and leave with armloads full of fabulous items.  You are the woman in which clothes drape as fabulously on you as the store mannequin.  Me...not so much.

I really don't like to shop.  It's a waste of time because I could spend hours wandering stores looking for the perfect item, and for whatever reason come home with nothing.  I can think of four hundred things I would rather be doing than dashing in and out of dressing rooms.  I would do all of my shopping online if I could get away with that.  Only problem with shopping online is that the item usually looks so much more fabulous on my computer screen than on my body.  You see, I'm short. At 5'2" it's hard to find things that look as great as on the twiggy model.  The sleeves or the hemline are usually a couple of inches too long which requires some type of alteration which is really more work than I'm willing to put into clothing my body. Don't even get me started on the "petite" section.  If I was 5'2" and 98 pounds, or wanted to dress like my grandma, I just might find something worth wearing there.

So to find something specific for a specific event makes me crazy.  Annual family pictures, holiday parties, reunions...they all fall under the same stressful shopping category for me.  If I could pay someone to shop for me I would.  That's how much I really don't enjoy it.  A better option would even be to find a website in which I could type in my exact measurements and have the clothes custom fit for me.  Now there's a million dollar idea...one that probably already exists!?

I know I'm not the only person that feels this way.  But, I sure do feel alone in a sea of well dressed beauties!  Guess I should stop complaining and get to work.  I've got some shopping to do!