Stuck
Posted on April 16, 2003 by Ching under Health.
I got stuck in the dress from hell for almost two hours. It would have been funny — if I didn’t feel so ridiculous. My regular workouts deluded me into thinking that I can fit into a SIZE 3 again. In my dreams! The reality of it was a total nightmare..
I was having a hissy last week so I ended up buying these two Ruby Rox party dresses from Dillard’s. I’m partial to strapless dresses (if I could only count how many I have — different styles from different stores — yes, I’m a clothes whore — err, clothes horse) so I bought two of the same style. I got the periwinkle one and the black and white print pictured left. I had seen similar dresses in the Victoria’s Secret catalogs last season but they cost twice as much. Naturally, I thought the less expensive Ruby Rox dresses were a steal!
To tell you the truth, the material isn’t that great — the black and white print one is actually a white screen-print (seemed like screenprint anyway) on black fabric — it wasn’t even woven. The material on the periwinkle dress is different and, I think, is much better quality — although I haven’t taken it out of the plastic yet, so I haven’t inspected it all that well. I can see why they are selling for a much lower price.
So anway, anytime I get a package in the mail I get super-excited (I get three times more excited these days because my mail order shopping has become less frequent due to financial woes) and I feel compelled to try on my new outfits. I did a quick eenie, meanie, minie mo as I undressed. The black and white print dress won the toss up, so I eagerly took it out of the plastic, slid it off the hanger, untied the belt and unzipped the back. I stepped into the dress and pulled it up only to find out that my hips were too wide. Rather than risk tearing the dress by forcing the issue, I decided to try putting it on the other way — through my head. I couldn’t just slip it on because the opening wasn’t wide enough (frankly a longer zipper in the back would have worked wonders) so I had to force the dress on, sliding one arm at a time. Getting the dress on wasn’t even nearly as challenging as getting it zipped up. Not even close!
I finally just gave up on it because I couldn’t get it zipped. But then I couldn’t take it off! I couldn’t slip it down to my feet because my hips were too wide and I couldn’t take it off through my head because it was too tight. I was stuck! I really wished that Brian would come home so he could help me get it off (I own a couple of other dresses that require collaboration between Brian and I to get on and off so he’s used to it) but he was running late coming home for his lunch break tonight.
Alright fine, I thought. Since I can’t take it off, I might as well wear it. After struggling for almost thirty minutes I finally had it zipped up almost completely in the back. Looking at the glass as half-full, I thought I might as well forget about working out tonight because I can’t take the stupid dress off but at least I had a thirty-minute workout out of the whole ordeal.
Brian finally came home for dinner (on his lunch break) at a little after nine and he helped me out of the dress before he returned to work. Whew! What a fiasco!
I really love the dresses and I want to return them for ones that fit better but the SIZE 3’s are just a teeny bit tight (they fit as long as I don’t wear a bra and someone else has to zip them up for me and help me take them off at the end of the day) and I’m worried that the next size up (5’s) will be too big. It’s a strapless dress so that’s a big no-no. I wouldn’t want them falling off (specially since I have no boobs to hold them up). I guess just chalk this up to even more motivation to lose weight! ~sigh~
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