Capri pants are the devil's minion

[listersgirl]

It feels like Friday. I mean, the inner fibres of my body are convinced that it's Friday. It also, from my perspective of not actually having any windows to the outside, but having windows across the library that look out onto the hall that overlooks the atrium which is lit by a skylight 9 stories up, seems extremely dark out. It's a dark and stormy Friday.

I've decided that the reason that it's no longer sunny -- if, in fact, this is even true, and it's not just that a plane is currently passing over the skylight -- is that yesterday I broke down and purchased my first ever pair of capri pants.

This is not to say that I am refuting my long-held belief that capri pants are a supremely unattractive piece of clothing, on pretty much everybody.

This is also not to say that these particular capri pants do anything but make me feel lumpy and ugly, as all capri pants do.

It is just that the evil demon known as heat rash on my fat thighs has finally beaten me down, and given the pain of choosing between shorts and capri pants, I went with the ones that don't compound the misery by also flashing my pale and jiggly skin to the universe, i.e. the capri pant.

So, to wit, and perhaps as a small consolation for the part of my soul that died yesterday at the cash register, the sun has gone away for a moment, and the capri pants can stay on the shelf.

Or, more likely, the air-conditioned office is messing with my brain, and it's just as muggy and sweaty outside as always. FINE.

Comments

But...but...

[mystery-diva.livejournal.com]

...capri pants are wonderful! You don't like? I love. I love love love them. It's the perfect compromise - no sweaty skirt legs, not as hot as pants, not as thigh showy as shorts :) And they're workplace acceptable. You too shall be converted...muahahahha

Re: But...but...

[listersgirl]

I just think they're really unattractive. And generally, too warm compared with the breeze catching qualities of skirts. But the skirts aren't entirely working in the heat this year, so I may have to reconsider.

Re: But...but...

[starfishchick]

You have capri pants ... instead of a skirt?

Who are you, and what have you done with LG?

Re: But...but...

[listersgirl]

I even wore them yesterday and did not die. Although I was entirely self-concious all day. :P

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

dude, my brain totally thinks it's friday too.

but it is a sunny day here. perhaps because i am still holding to the "capri pants are evil" way of life.

[listersgirl]

Apparently we have a severe thunderstorm watch now! I still can't see them, but I could just hear the rain hitting the glass in the hall outside the meeting room.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

eek! it just may be the apocalypse :)

[listersgirl]

I'd like a little warning with my apocalypse, please, so I can run out and do all those end-of-the-world things that one is supposed to do.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

seriously. i would much rather be having sex with ckr than processing invoices i tell you what.

[listersgirl]

EXACTLY what I was thinking, down to the unenjoyment of processing invoices. :P

[globetrotter1.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking it's Friday too.

[listersgirl]

And why ISN'T it Friday, then? You'd think the combined power of us all thinking it's Friday would do something.

[globetrotter1.livejournal.com]

Clearly my power sucks!

[fromaway.livejournal.com]

I find capris kind of unattractive as well, but they sure are practical.

I basically don't wear short pants of any kind, though.

[listersgirl]

Maybe if I just don't look at myself, ever, I'll be able to handle it. :)

[emiline.livejournal.com]

After years of avoiding them, I finally bought a pair of capri pants, and I've been living in them all summer so far. I like these ones because they're not very short.

I was walking home from the subway, and one crack of thunder was so loud it set off a car alarm. That was kind of amusing, until I realized I could still hear the alarm even when I was a block away. At least I can't hear it in my apartment.

[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

Let me tell you that EVERY major crack of thunder set off at least one car alarm, and we sure could hear them all. :p

[emiline.livejournal.com]

I heard that it was a crazy storm day here - I was on the Toronto Islands all day, so I missed the hardcore storms. I was only here for the one at 4:30 pm or so.

[bruiseblue.livejournal.com]

I have learned the following:
Capris only really look good with heels (just like skirts)
Capris only look good at the length that skirts look good on you - for me this is just below the knee, or just above. Anything else is clownish and stupid. Yes, I know they are pants, but they have skirt-like-attributes.

Pants that end just above one's ankle (as regular-height-person capris do on me) don't work on anyone, unless you are 7 feet tall.

And never, never do the capri/sock combo.
*looks down*
It's awful - I do it all the time, trying to look sporty, but really it's just awful.

And I hate that whole sweatpant capri thing - who thought of that, and why is it popular?

[listersgirl]

I think what I hate about capris is that they are either fitted, which just makes me look triangular, or if they're not, they look like some sort of wonky 80s flare. Evil!

[pomma-penses.livejournal.com]

And I hate that whole sweatpant capri thing - who thought of that, and why is it popular?

oooh, yuk, gauchos. :P

[offscreen.livejournal.com]

Pants that end just above one's ankle (as regular-height-person capris do on me) don't work on anyone, unless you are 7 feet tall.

Preach on... PREACH. ON. I say. I have searched fruitlessly for YEARS for a pair of capris that don't just look like regular pants that shrunk in the wash, but I finally found some this year at the Gap. Just-below-the-knee is the only length that looks good on me, and ones that strike me there are SO hard to find! I wear my denim ones with black Chuck Taylors and my black ones with round-toed flats... or very occasionally, kitten-heel sandals.

[kylegirl.livejournal.com]

I have a solution to sweaty skirt chafing which does not require pants of any length! And it's going to sound a little weird, but I swear, it works. I bought this "Bodyglide Anti-Friction Skin Formula" during a quest to try any and all currently marketed anti-blister treatments. It does not help much for foot blisters, but it is absolutely the bomb for thigh chafing. It comes in a stick like deoderant, and you just smear it on, which I know sounds kind of gross, and at first it feels sticky, but it honest-to-god works. No chafing. Even in poorly-ventilated denim skirts.

I got it off drugstore.com, but it may be available in actual stores and I just never noticed it before.

[listersgirl]

Wow, I'm totally going to have to try that. Freedom from pants would be AWESOME.

[kylegirl.livejournal.com]

I am all about freedom from pants. Freedom from pants for everyone!