Today I decided to wear a new dress to work (yes I occasionally wear dresses now!). This particular dress is a little shorter than I would normally feel comfortable in. It's from the Juniors section and you know how they like their dresses/skirts a good 3 inches shorter than normal. Anyway, this is a "winter" dress and I knew I would always be wearing it with leggings or tights, so I decided short was okay. However, walking into work from the car this morning, I was feeling a little self-conscious about the length, so I was using my bag to cover my butt.

This gave me a total flashback to pre-sleeve when I used to use my bag to try to cover my butt for a totally different reason. I have to wear dress pants (or now dresses) to work and dress pants are pricey. Back when I was fat and getting fatter, I HATED having to drop serious money on bigger pants. So there were many times when I was SQUEEZING into dress pants that were way too small for me. A couple of times I even had to reinforce the stitching in the seat of my pants so they wouldn't split. I used to always walk around work with my bag covering my butt to hide the fact that my pants were straining for dear life back there.

So glad things have changed!

Great NSV

That is a great NSV!

I do the same thing with Junior dresses, especially the sweater types - I wear them as tunics over legging or skinny pants. I get so many compliments on that "look".

congrats on losing the "bag" as a cover !!!!

No more bag over butt!! You go girl.

I was like that about my stomach before, always trying to hide the belly and shirts wouldn't stretch over it so I wore maternity clothes a lot. I feel your pain!

You should rock those short dresses!!!