I guess I'm in the minority: I really don't care what someone else is wearing or where they bought it. I wear what I like and what makes me feel good, and if someone else doesn't like it, they don't need to look at me. Unless you are paying for it, you should not judge.
I totally agree!!!
And we all wonder why girls have such low self esteem. Could it be because the moms can't even be respectful of what other people choose to wear? Wear what you like and don't worry what other people think.
I'm a size 10/12 kids, and yes I have clothes from the kids department, and no I don't care if a 10 year old has the same shirt as me. If a younger person wearing the same thing as me bothers me, then I probably need to work on my self esteem and priorities. I have more important issues to be worried about than anxiety over a teenager sharing my wardrobe. And if someone wants to mistake me for a teenager on the beach in my Aeropostale bathing suit, great I'll take it as a compliment, pretty sure those days won't last forever, might as well enjoy them now.
Also, where do you guys suggest I shop if not in the kids and juniors department? Even XS and 00 in most brands are too large for me. Because of my size, I have a really hard time finding clothes. I buy what I like in whichever department it happens to be in. I find it kind of ironic that I actually like Coldwater Creek, but everything in there is too big for me to wear. I love Banana Republic too, but can only wear the 00 and then some of that is too big, and all of it is too expensive. If I limited myself to the women's dept or stores for women, I'd end up naked half the time.
On the other side of that, my girls who wear bigger clothes than me, sometimes buy their clothes in women's department because the jrs are all too small for them. Now I've really ruined it for some of you. You might see one of my 11 years olds in your old lady shirts!!! Hate to break it to you guys. I know a lot of teens and college kids who shop in all those "old lady" stores, so if your goal is to not be in the same shirt as that age group, good luck with that. Loft, Banana Republic, Anne Taylor - those are my sister and her friends' favorite stores to shop at, and they are all teenagers. She can't stand Abercrombie or Aeropostale, but Bass and Talbot and those types she loves. She's even got a tan jacket from Coldwater Creek that she got when she was 14. It's really cute, if I could fit in it, I'd steel if from her.
It's really very silly to say age X must shop here and age X must shop there. Shop where you want to.
