Clothing Question

[ladysprite]

It has come to my realization recently that I don't have any dress-up-and-go-out-dancing clothes. I have work clothes, and nice clothes, and costuming, but with the exception of perhaps one skirt and a shiny metal top, I don't have anything appropriate to wear for flailing around the dance floor at the local goth club/dance night/what-have-you. I used to have a few outfits, but most of them either don't fit anymore or are worn out from over-wearing.

The problem is, I have no idea of where to go about finding such things. I think there's a Hot Topic not too far from here, but I'm really not into the whole 'corsets and plaid micro-mini-skirts' look - I just don't have the figure for corsets, and that look is a bit overused anyway.

So, any suggestions about where I might be able to find dance-y outfits that fall outside that particular narrow niche that seems to have conquered the entire goth market? Locals, is there *anywhere* around Boston that I might try, and/or anyone willing to go shopping with me and keep me from collapsing in a puddle of pity, self-hatred and body image disorder in the dressing room? Non-locals, any decent online shopping you can point me to?

Comments

[tpau]

:( sadness... i think it'd be fun, in a moeny-spendy sort of way, but definitely up to you...

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

If I found something decent, it would be fun. But the more I think about it, the more I realize I'm not likely to. And speaking from a purely pragmatic point of view, I'm in a bad enough place right now that the last thing I need is to have body-shape problems hammered home like that.

Maybe some other time when I'm feeling confident. Of course, then there's the chicken-and-the-egg problem - if I don't dress like I'm asking for it, I'm never going to get the confidence that positive feedback brings.

*sigh* Is it time for me to be reincarnated as a manatee yet?

[tpau]

but then sailors will think you are an evil mermaid :)

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

New day; deep breath.

Never make any kind of decisions when overtired, underfed, and coming off of three days of nightmares about family emotional trauma. Apologies for last night's whining.....

[tpau]

'sok. whining totally allowed. god knows i need to hav esome of my own at some point

[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

... but it's LiveJournal. That's what it's for. :)