Posts Tagged ‘unflattering lights and mirrors in shops’

If you are female and around retirement age you are well aware that your shape is very different from when you were younger, but generally you can forget this unwelcome fact – except when shopping for clothes.  You may start off your shopping trip feeling cheerful and positive but there’s a good chance when you’ve finished shopping and are walking back to your car all you will be carrying will be a new oven glove, a 2011 calendar of border collies ( much reduced), three pairs of tights and something for supper.  You will also be close to tears and feeling ugly because everything you tried on, however beautiful it looked on the rail, made you look either too fat, too short, too thin, too shapeless or too old… and those unforgiving lights and the cruel three-way mirrors in the changing rooms so helpfully highlighted all your worst features.