This is a poem (by a lady named Maya Angelou) that I came across recently and it certainly applies to me (except my shoe size has gone down rather than up). I enjoyed the humour of it and hope others will too.
MY YOUNGER DAYS
When I was in my younger days I weighed a few pounds less;
I needn't hold my tummy in to wear a belted dress.
But now that I am older, I've set my body free;
There's the comfort of elastic where once my waist would be.
The inventor of those high-heeled shoes my feet have not forgiven;
I have to wear a size nine now but used to wear a seven.
And how about those panthose? They're sized by weight you see;
So how come when I put them on the crotch is at my knee?
I need to wear these glasses as the print's been getting smaller;
And it wasn't very long ago I know that I was taller.
Though my hair has turned to grey and my skin no longer fits,
On the inside I'm the same old me......but the outside's changed a bit!
I love this!
ReplyDeleteI'd like to know how your shoe size goes down though, that seems a little unusual.
Yes, it is unusual....for years I took an Australian size 10 but now I take a 9. I must admit though that dress sizes seem to have changed from years ago as well. We of course had sizes such as SSSW SSW SW W XW and so on and now of course they go up in sizes by 2's from size 6 through to heaven knows how big.
ReplyDeleteI remember those dress sizes. I used to buy skirts and blouses in SSW and they'd be a bit big, not too much, but enough that I'd have to take up hems and shift buttons. Nowadays, I still have to take up hems but if they were sized the same I'd probably have to buy the XW or whatever the equivalent is for size 16.
ReplyDeleteI adore Maya Angelou. She is a beautiful, witty, wise woman. I'm surprised at your shoe size too! Each of my pregnancies gave me a higher shoe size! I was a 7, and I'm now an 8 wide or a 9.
ReplyDeleteI know it is strange about my shoe size but I for many years did take a size 10 but now a 9 is just right for me as long as it is a wide fitting. A size 10 just falls off. Weird? Just me I guess!!
ReplyDeleteI'd not previously heard of Maya Angelou but must find more of her work. My hubby belongs to a group at our local library calling itself The Dead Poet's Society and they meet once a month to recite their selected poems and have light discussions about them. This Maya may be a poet that he could introduce to the group via one of her poems.