Wear pants and you'll rarely have this problem- only when you're really drunk.
I saw some dress recently that was just a symmetric tube of fabric. I don't know how comfortable that would be since bodies are not symmetric cylinders, but that would also solve the problem- perhaps it comes in a skirt as well.
since bodies are not symmetric cylinders
Clearly, you are not a physicist.
I do have occasional analogues to "did I turn off the stove?" moments when I think "oh shit, am I wearing pants?" and I'm pretty sure that's only since I started swimming, where I do actually go outside not wearing pants.
You could use the dress as a riding habit for your spherical horse.
I, on the other hand, am at work in a spiffy new suit I bought cheap on eBay. I can't decide if I'm brilliant or pathetic.
How many times have you turned out to not actually be wearing pants? Because I know I've left the stove on a couple times.
I'm at work realize it's not quite hanging right
yea, men never have this problem.
Everyone look for Lizardbreath or Becks on the Sartorialist.
Nudists never have these sorts of problems. Just sayin'.
I sometimes forgot to put on my uniform skirt before leaving the house in high school. (To be fair, we wore shorts under them and I'd have those on. I'd just forget to put on the kilt over them.)
What is it with you New Yorkers and your dating issues??
Can't you decide how to do it?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/fashion/11dating.html?th&emc=th
I, on the other hand, am at work in a spiffy new suit I bought cheap on eBay. I can't decide if I'm brilliant or pathetic.
Brilliant. But mostly for the use of "spiffy."
12: Thanks, sport. You're aces with me.
I sometimes forgot to put on my uniform skirt before leaving the house in high school. (To be fair, we wore shorts under them and I'd have those on. I'd just forget to put on the kilt over them.)
Shorts? Porn has been lying to us.
I have a skirt that will rotate around my body when I'm wearing it. I have no idea why, but it's frustrating.
How much sleep, LB?
Everyone look for Lizardbreath or Becks on the Sartorialist
Every attempt, in good faith or not, to celebrate how real women look in media, seems to morph into what it's trying to avoid, the look of magazines and fashion and entertainment. The medium is the message. A private pleasure, as yet not commodified, is what it stays for now.
How fast is it rotating, and have you tried exorcism?
16: Way not enough, and not much more until Monday. The trainwreck's my fault, though -- I could see a month ago that I really needed to start bullying the partner, and the team from our other office, and I didn't, just did my own assignments. 'It'll all probably work out fine if everyone does their bit' is never a safe plan.
I really need to be more invested than I am in this place to push people around properly, though.
I've always wanted to buy clothes on eBay, but my body is just oddly shaped enough that I don't dare.
In other news, I bought my first pair of >$50 jeans yesterday. They make carrying an iPod in my pocket sort of uncomfortable.
11: Sure, workplace dating was once taboo. But in this busy era where people work long hours and have Kafka homework to finish when they finally get home, sometimes that quickie in the fileroom just makes sense.
13: I love "aces," too. No chance you have an previously unmentioned downmarket sister, I take it.
I have a skirt that will rotate around my body when I'm wearing it. I have no idea why, but it's frustrating.
Try taking out the batteries.
Skirts that rotate around don't fit properly. I think it means they're too big about the hips.
I have a skirt that will rotate around my body when I'm wearing it. I have no idea why, but it's frustrating.
Is it one of those standard knee-length straight skirts? Because those always do that on me, and it drives me batshit.
As does the "does this skirt button in back or on the side?" thing. Another reason to resent men: they don't have to waste brain power memorizing the various attributes of their different pieces of clothing. Jerks.
22: Just me and the good Dr., sadly, and we're both occupied elsewhere these days. But if Mom mentions having misplaced a sibling somewhere, I'll give you a heads-up.
those always do that on me
Maybe try thumbtacks?
I'm with Ogged. Since I started swimming in a real swimsuit, I feel naked on the pool deck and occasionally have to check.
Skirts that rotate around don't fit properly. I think it means they're too big about the hips.
Or too small on the hips, so they ride up and then move. Mine that are a bit loose tend to drop down and find a level and stay there. Pencil skirts are the worst though.
Labels sometimes help to find the orientation, but not reliably.
You can add a button or some kind of cleat to the inside front of all your skirts, to lock into the navel an establish a proper orientation.
If you can't tell whether the buttons are supposed to be in back or on the side, does it matter?
Or just wear dresses. You should be able to tell whether the arm holes go on the sides or in the front and back.
Since I started swimming in a real swimsuit, I feel naked on the pool deck and occasionally have to check.
Do you nod to the ladiez while you are checking?
I, on the other hand, am at work in a spiffy new suit I bought cheap on eBay.
You've got to be picky, but eBay is the mutt's nuts for clothes. I buy about half the clothes I wear on eBay.
Another reason to resent men
It was 95 freaking degrees in October the other day.
Me? I wore a suit and a tie. The female lawyers? Skirts with no hose and tops with no sleeves.
To quote: "[the] class of 2011 is 37 percent female, a huge increase over previous years." And almost all of them have the good sense to stay away from the pool.
28: Nah, I just don't buy that kind of skirt any more. Luckily I have no likelihood of ever having the kind of establishment business job in which they're de rigueur.
35: True.
If you can't tell whether the buttons are supposed to be in back or on the side, does it matter?
You *did* read the post, right?
How can you not realize once you've put it on that it's not hanging right, but then notice later?
I guess I will have to try for myself and see.
38 - Because it looks OK when you're standing in front of the mirror but after you've moved and walked a bit, you realize it's bunching in weird places.
You wear skirts to work? I thought you were in tech.
Pencil skirts are the worst though.
Amen. Unless you get them perfectly tailored to you, they're not much good for people with hips.
As for eBay--
I buy all my bras on eBay.
Is it one of those standard knee-length straight skirts? Because those always do that on me, and it drives me batshit.
Come to think of it, it's pretty much every skirt I own. I must be buying the wrong size or something.
Come to think of it, it's pretty much every skirt I own. I must be buying the wrong size or something.
This is making me laugh a lot.