I'm Not Losing My Mind...or maybe I already have!

Over the past week I've had the most disturbing experience and I really thought I was losing it, but now I think I'm just my own kind of normal. I had ordered some pants from Land's End when they were on sale, same size that I've worn for the past 3 years. YIPPPPEEEEE...they arrived, but were too small by quite a bit. Being a typical woman, I was quite shocked and more than a little upset. So, I held the pants up to some similar pants that I bought from Land's End last year and the new ones are markedly smaller. I can maybe understand if one out of the 4 pair were that way but all 4???? I don't think so. So, just for kicks and giggles I ordered another set of the pants, all 4 the same exact pair of pants except one size larger. They arrived today and low and behold they fit perfectly. I did the same matching up with my old pants and they are the same exact size. Now....since I wear plus sizes I tend to not have the best body image anyway, but it really doesn't help when the clothes manufacturer changes sizes on me and I go up a whole pant size without the benefit of eating all the tasty treats and such. If I went up a pant size from eating cheesecake and chocolates all the time that would be one thing...no whining from me at all. But really folks????? I had noticed this same trend with shirts that I've bought at stores as well, the same size that I've worn for a few years no longer fit. I just put it off to how they make the shirts a bit more clingy now so I've been grudgingly buying the next larger size but now I'm thinking that there is way more to this than I realized.

I've also found out that I now have to buy plus size socks!!!!! WHAT????? Since I now also magically where a size 11 shoe instead of the size 10 that I've worn for years the socks also no longer fit. HMMMMM.....I was buying some socks just yesterday and saw that "regular" sized socks fit shoe sizes 4-10, but the "plus" size socks fit sizes 8-12. Well...howdy-doo! Only problem is they don't make the cute, fun, soft socks in the 8-12 size...just the 4-10 size. Also, if they did make the cute, fun, soft socks in the 8-12 size they would cost more for fewer pairs. Maybe that's what this is all about. Mark the larger pants/socks/shirts a smaller size so we have to buy a larger size and THEY can charge us more. SIGH!!!! And honestly, when did a pair of size 6 underwear all of a sudden become a size large??? Not that I fit into a size 6 or anything (maybe a knee or a thigh perhaps) but it was just another thing I noticed on my depressing walk through of the lingerie department of my not so local Target yesterday.

Signing off now from the land of Plus Sized Normality with a very large and depressing sigh. Bring on the cheesecake and chocolates.