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I was fascinated by a recent post by Lana<\/a>\u00a0on clothes shopping as an ex-fundamentalist girl. So much of it rang so very true for me. I\u2019ll be writing more on this topic soon, but I wanted to start by quoting liberally from her wonderful post:<\/p>\n

You remember that scene in\u00a0Tangled<\/em>\u00a0where the little girls have to fix Rapunzel\u2019s hair up? That\u2019s totally me in the clothing shop. I\u2019m pretty sure most 8-year-olds know more about women\u2019s clothing to me.<\/p>\n

I hate clothes shopping. It\u2019s painfully difficult for me. One would think it\u2019s as simple as trying on clothes, fitting them, coming up with the\u00a0money, and paying a cashier. Actually its a lot harder than that.<\/p>\n

First of all, I never bought clothes at the store as a kid other than the thrift shop<\/strong>. From grade school until high school, I had maybe two or three store-bought dresses that I didn\u2019t actually buy; my aunts\/grandma bought them. The rest of my clothes came from\u00a0thrift shops, garage sales, or were home sewn (the insane part is that some of my garage sale dresses were not only worn by my family for the next six years, but were still being worn by other little girls I knew 15 years later. Classic homeschool). My grandma bought me my first pair of store-bought shoes when I was 16, so I wouldn\u2019t get made fun of while taking driver\u2019s ed at the high school.<\/p>\n

Second of all, I wore mostly dresses, or other baggy clothes, and all my clothes were 100% cotten (the Old Testament says don\u2019t wear mixed clothing.\u00a0\":P\"\u00a0).<\/strong>\u00a0So even if all my dresses had come from the store, it wouldn\u2019t have transferred to today very well.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t learn\u2026..<\/p>\n

1) What fits me. I wore baggy clothes. What\u2019s normal size?<\/p>\n

2) About undershirts. OMG I had no idea why people wore them until I was in my 20s (I never wore them; I wore baggy T-shifts), and I still wonder what the heck sometimes.<\/p>\n

3) Old people\u2019s style verses young people\u2019s style. Technically I was the young person in grandma style.<\/p>\n

4) All about pants. When do I need a belt? What\u2019s too low? I didn\u2019t wear belts on pants as a kid. I wore dresses, elastic pants,and skirts that included a belt.<\/p>\n

[Read the rest.<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like I said, more of my thoughts later! I even have a post planned with pictures as examples of how I dressed as a girl and a teen growing up in the conservative Christian homechooling subculture.<\/p>\n

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