Sunday, February 22, 2009

Where do tiny women buy business suits?

Despite the immense joy of turning in the memo... law school goes on. That's how it is here. You win little battles and feel good about yourself for about a minute, then the looming pile of work you put off while focusing on the memo comes crashing down upon your head. Sometimes literally. 

The good news is that next week I have a job interview! I bid for an on-campus interview and was accepted last week. This summer job, unlike the other externships I applied for, is a PAYING gig! I'm not sure how many other people were tapped to interview, but I'm excited to have my first law school-related job interview.

This brings me to ultra-frustration #1 in my life, which is buying clothes. For this interview, I really need a suit. One that is smart and fits well and makes me look like a professional. The problem is, people don't make suits in tiny-size. Anywhere. C and I wasted time-that-should-have-been-spent-studying at the mall trying to find a suit that fit me. Any suit. The problem is that at 5'2" and at slim-lbs, I have the body proportions of an extremely short middle schooler (trust me, I taught them. Most were taller than I was/am). The smallest suits I could find were still ridiculously baggy on the top and ridiculously long in the pants (forget skirt suits - I am apparently 7 inches too short to fit into any of those). 

I have three more days to find myself  a decent looking suit. My hope is that I can find something that will pass for Wednesday, then can get a suit that I can tailor to my exact proportions. In a fit of disgust, I ordered 2 suits online from a "petite" clothing store, so hopefully one of those will fit/be tailor-able in the future. However, this doesn't help in the Wednesday-interview department.

The end result of this rant is that I hate wasting time shopping for clothing that doesn't fit. This might be the reason why I always look like a pre-teen. The "grownup" clothes just don't fit. Whenever I go clothing shopping (for regular clothes or suits), I end up getting really bummed and buying workout clothes. Sadly I cannot wear these to my interview...

K

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