Wednesday, April 4, 2012

My Shirt Is Too Long

My shirt is too long.  It goes a little less than halfway down my thighs, making it seem more like a short dress than a shirt.  As I am unlikely to gain several inches in any reasonable timeframe without some surgeries I neither want nor can afford, it is useless to me.  In addition, it is a very slim-cut shirt, meaning everyone I know who is tall enough to wear it is also too large.  It might work decently well as a dress, though unfortunately it is indisputably a man's shirt, meaning any woman wearing it must needs be shooting for the "perpetual walk of shame" look, and since I do not attend Arizona State, I cannot think of anyone to whom to give it.

Hypothetically I could cut it shorter, but that would require skills and materials I do not own, particularly considering that I would then need to re-sew the hem unless I want it to look like a half-shirt from the 1980s.  I do not, especially since cutting it to standard shirt length would mean that it would just make it look like my half-shirt is too long, which does nothing to alleviate the problem.

Being broke, I have to conserve every penny, which means (among other things) laundry days are as far apart as I can manage.  Thus every shirt I own is just one more day I don't have to do laundry.  However, I own one shirt that is just simply too long.  This makes it very frustrating, as I am running very low on clean shirts and having it makes it seem like it is mocking me.  You think you're so good, shirt?  You think you're better than me?

This is not made any better because it is a good-looking shirt.  It's sort of like a polo shirt, with blue and light blue stripes running across it horizontally.  It looks great from the waist up.  It only becomes a problem when it makes me look really, really girly on the full body shot, certainly not helped by the fact that I like skinny jeans and they end up, by comparison, looking like leggings.  Admittedly, my wardrobe is not my manliest aspect to begin with.

In the meantime, I'm stumped.  My best idea so far is to use it as a backup towel, since it has a pocket that could be very useful for holding my wallet (and thus my room key) while I shower, but while it is too large to be a shirt it is too small to be an adequate towel.  I'm frustrated.

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