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That really is a good shuffle.

I am so glad you are irritated, because that is one of the funniest damn lists I have read in a long time. And after all, it's all about me and how your feelings effect me.

I don't know, Poppy. Pair one of those shirts with a Linda Evans scarf, and you've got yourself a statement!

Delurking to say Lane Bryant clothes have gone wrong and their stores are awful. There is another Lane Bryant web site though, http://www.lanebryantcatalog.com. Its different then the regular one, some of the clothes can be nasty, but Ive found some nice stuff. Ive been reading your blog for a while (found you through Wendy, who's site is down), hope you have a better day!.

I'd be the last person to claim any kind of fashion sense, but the items you listed go beyond "eccentric, but could look good on someone" straight over to butt-ugly.

oh, dear lord. the lane bryant items are hideous. i want to gouge out my eyeballs.

second, i was having the same thoughts about clayton last night (as i almost took out a car parked a little too close to me when i was leaving). idjuts.

hope your day improves.

I'm almost afraid to click the Lane Bryant links having just purchased a bunch of clothes there.

I'll bet you 2 bucks one of those links is something I bought.

I'm *shocked*! Shocked, I tell you, that I did not purchase any of those--although I did look at the kimono top (or one similar).

OMG. Those LB clothes are AWFUL!!!!! Big people would just look bigger in them. Their clothes have been so awful for the past few years that I just buy lingerie from them now.

Okay, here's my Oprah thing. The facts that I've never been a fan, see her as a raging narcissist, and can't believe she's coming to my town this month and charging 150 bucks for the privledge of sitting in the audience are sure to cloud my view.

Oprah got punk'd. Ha! Er, I mean, what a sad, sad thing to happen to such a noble creature as she.

How dare anyone suggest this is karmic repay for her theatrical display of when-its-convenient race-baiting a few months ago! That the Red Queen would be turned away by hard-working employees of a store that was ACTIVELY IN THE PROCESS OF CLOSING DURING ITS NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS, and then drag the store's poor PR rep on national television to assuage her mock anguish!---what kind of world are we living in when a billionaire can't get exactly what she wants exactly when she wants it, regardless of how many normal working stiffs she inconveniences with her myopic piggyness?!

The pilot has now turned off the "tirade" sign. You're free to return to the topic at hand.

Mr. Frey has opted to embrace Stephen Colbert's word "truthiness" while penning his Grandpa Simpsony memoirs. Herr Winfrey was willing to warm her hands at the truthiness campfire until the embers started popping out and igniting her 40 thousand dollar pantsuit.

They both suck. Lane Bryant-level suck.

So. I take it you tried to park somewhere in Clayton.

Back in the day - 20 years ago, that is, at a college internship in the ever-so-swanky "Sevens" building - I got a ticket for not feeding the meter. My ticket laid out my choices:

1) Pay the umpteen-dollar ticket (I was poor.)

OR

2) Go to the municipal building, swallow your pride, and put a QUARTER in a little mock parking meter situated on the desk of this red-fake-nailed, aqua-eye-shadowed broad.

I put the quarter in the fake meter. Poverty has no pride.

"Parking retarded." I'm still giggling.

OMG, that clothes is u.g.l.y. Bleh!

There was a time when Lane Bryant had clothes that I could wear -- I don't know when they switched over to the "clothing so ugly I have to shop somewhere else" line.

Lane Bryant: HORRORS.
Crab-assiness: SHARED.

Lisa V., glad to be of service.

FP, I'll be sporting that ensemble on Tuesday.

Paula, did you comment on Wendy's post a few weeks ago about the crappiness of LB? I don't have much luck with the catalog; it's a bit too mature for my taste. There needs to be a middle ground between the catalog and the stores.

Kara, no more knitting in Clayton. I'm sick of going through the parking shit. We need a new spot. Kayak's in Brentwood, maybe?

Robert, I'm not totally anti-Oprah, but I'm so with you on this one. In fact, someone on yesterday's show also referenced Colbert and "truthiness".

Bev, I was indeed trying to park in Clayton. You'd think they'd have it figured out by now. If I had to park there regularly and they were still doing the humiliation thing, I'd be all over that. I have no shame.

Katya, in 2001 The Limited sold Lane Bryant to the company that owns Fashion Bug and Catherine's. It's been going down the toilet sincde then.

There will be birthday cupcakes tomorrow eve if you're interested. Cake makes malaise better.
Toddlers are welcome! There will be other kids there too. 8 pm!

So I had previously found a great parking spot in clayton but there was some weird ass event going on...possibly some weird derranged afro perm twin deal as we saw them later.
I'm pro other places. My starbucks gc is almost up anyway ;)
Maybe your inlaws shop the ugly lane bryant section...don't they give ugly clothes too? You could use a coupon to LB to get your mil something.. mil...not milf

I was wondering where that scarf went...
http://lanebryant.charmingshoppes.com/Shopping/product.aspx?product_id=L1008930&nav=L1
How about the get some appropriate folks...this one has man shoulders
http://i.charmingshoppes.com/is-viewers//dynapi/src/lib/tsapi/images/cover.gif?403x490

where's the kayak's in brentwood? that's definitely a possibility.

i looked at perc on the park, but they close too early. the bastards.

y'know, i could just email this to you, but that's too easy. :p

Those clothes reek.

I can never understand why clothing intended for larger sizes is so often droopy and unfashionable. I mean, I'm fairly average in size and I know damn well I look better in fitted clothes than shapeless garments because shapeless caftans make me look like a frump. So, it would seem to reason that the bigger you are, the more you need clothing to fit properly. And, while I'm on the subject, why does so much of the clothing look so cheaply made? I mean, just because someone is a size 22 or whatever instead of a size 8 does this mean they automatically eschew cashmere and silk?