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Back to school.

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Light blogging today and probably over the next couple of days.  

I hope to have a post up on the next couple of chapters out of St. Francis de Sales soon.  

Yesterday I took the baby with me to the Mall of America — on one of the last Sundays before school starts back — and it was alarmingly uncrowded.   A few years ago I made the mistake of trying to go shopping (for myself) on back-to-school-sale weekend, and I had to stand in dressing-room lines everywhere.  Not so this year.  Retail must be really suffering.  The department stores were nearly empty.  Granted, I only covered the quadrant between Macy's and Nordstrom's, plus a little bit on either end; maybe if I'd wandered over by Old Navy or something I'd have seen a lot more people.

The only place I saw that was crowded was Nordstrom Rack (that's where Nordstrom puts their heavily discounted designer stuff).   

Found one pair of jeans for myself.  One of these days I might have to do a post on the oddities of shopping after dropping 7 pants sizes.  

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  1. Christy Porucznik Avatar
    Christy Porucznik

    Found the same thing when I went to the mall last week. Granted I didn’t have much baseline data since my last mall visit was at least 2 years ago, but it seemed pretty empty to me.
    Here’s a plea to the stores — please continue to carry small sizes. We deserve to be able try on pants, too. It is not helpful for you to say “that length is only available online” because how can I properly evaluate it that way?

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    Christy Porucznik

    Oh, and BTW, someone who is 5’5″ is pretty average, not petite. Sincerely, Christy P.

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  3. bearing Avatar
    bearing

    Average height for American adult females in 1999 was 5 feet, 3.8 inches. According to apparelsearch.com, regular (“misses”) size clothing is designed for a 5’5″ woman or taller; petite is supposedly for women shorter than that. But 40 percent of women are shorter than 5’5″ (and fully one-quarter are 5’1″ or shorter, supposedly).
    Part of the petite designation has to do with torso length — if you have a short torso or shorter arms, you might need petites even if you are taller than the average petites. I happen to be short with a short torso, so I’m often too short even for petites clothing. I pretty much live in 3/4 – length sleeves for that reason. I can just barely wear pants/jeans with a 30-inch inseam, at least when the style is meant to come almost to the floor behind my heel and I have a heel….

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