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Last night I coerced

sarcasma into going shopping for spring clothes with me. I really hate shopping (and am quite bad at it), but it can be fun with other people. Sometimes. ANYWAY, I was looking for cute spring skirts and dresses.

Dresses I had no luck with -- I am too short-waisted for the style of dress that is all over H&M right now, and apparently Old Navy dresses were built for prepubescent girls, because there was no containing my breasts (which, seriously, are not that big, so I can't imagine how most people would fit). Right now I wish I lived in the same city as my parents so I could teach myself to make very simple dresses on my mom's sewing machine.

But I bought a bunch of spring skirts at H&M, in a continuum of obnoxiousness from black linen to diagonal and horizontal stripes in 7 or 8 different bright colours. I don't know what I'm going to wear with that one, but with that many colours, I must have something that goes.

Today's middle-of-the-continuum spring skirt (worn despite the fact that it's snowing, yeesh) is knee-length, a-line, dark brown with white and chartreuse patterns all over it that look like wood-block prints of tree branches with blossoms. Or something like that. However, someone complimented me on my springlike skirt, so clearly it's doing the job!

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Those sound pretty! I really like the sound of the skirt of many colors. You could have fun with that one!

They are very cute. Now if it would just stop snowing...

Listersgirl and the technicolor dreamskirt!

(I'm tired, can you tell?)

Bwa! I kind of love that.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, clothes..

I think you can wear almost anything with that skirt, seriously. You could go the safe route and wear black or white or a neutral. Plus, it's so many-coloured that as long as you're in the same tone family the top doesn't have to be an EXACT match for the colour in the skirt -- like you could wear a lighter version of any of those colours, I think, and it would be more easy on the eye than even black or white with it. Whatever, it's all good. :)

I would probably wear it with pink, but you know, that's me.

That's what I was thinking - not wearing pink, but finding a colour in the skirt. Black would be fine, not particularly spring-like. :)

I hear you on the short-waisted. My waist is a centimeter long, if that, and all those empire-waisted hippy dresses make me look like a shoebox.

I love the empire waist because it's so damn comfy, but hello unattractive on me! Not that this has prevented me from trying them on anyway.