Moments When Every Woman Will Cry In the Fitting Room

June 12, 2011 1:00 pm     Posted in Entertainment, Fashion, Featured Left 2, HaHa, Style  Julianne-Carnegie Mellon University g+ page

Our friends at The Frisky wrote this article about tears in the dressing room. Some were tears of happiness, some of sadness and some were just down right random. And while I’ve never had a breakdown about a pseudo celebrity death (really, you should read it), this article resonated with me.


By Julianne

What is about dressing rooms?

I remember once in high school I spent a long day shopping with my mom. With no real agenda, we wandered from store to store just to pass time on an uneventful sunny Saturday afternoon. I spotted this killer mini dress from bcbg that had a long line of buttons up the back. I slid into the dressing room and tried it on.

Sometime in between taking the dress off the hanger and sliding it on, it happened. The waterworks started flowing. Likely a combination of the impossible to unbutton row of mini buttons, a pushy sales associate, and needing to go up a size, but it was that exact moment that the stress of college applications, a varsity sports team and just generally being a teenage girl decided to hit me. Lovely.

Here are six other situations that might leave even the strongest of us a little teary eyed:

1. You Gained the Freshman 5, 15, or 50:  No matter your size, extra weight gain from college ranks pretty high up there among the list of most upsetting things.

2. You Lost the Freshman 5, 15, or 50: And you’ve never looked hotter in that skintight dress. Tears. Of. Joy.

3. There just seem to not be any swimsuits in the world that work for you: My best friend always complains she can’t find swimsuits that fit her because she’s an XL on top and XS on the bottom (poor thing, right?). But swimsuits seem to be downright impossible. Who would have thought it’d be so hard to make such a tiny piece of fabric fit well.

4. You Gave Up Hope on Finding a Prom Dress: Ah yes, the wonders of being a high schooler, see above.  We spent days, weeks ( even months?) trying to find that perfect outfit to wear to Prom. You know, to impress the guy we convince ourselves we’re in love with, who we’ll stop talking to 1 month into college.

5. Hunger pains: You’ve officially put off going to the food court for far too long. Your stomach is empty and you haven’t even so much as sniffed an Annie’s pretzel all day.

6. General Mishaps: You inadvertently flash a hot guy. You break a zipper. Rip an expensive dress. Something embarrassing happens and it’s just the last thing you want to deal with.

What else will make any woman breakdown in a dressing room?

10 Comments on "Moments When Every Woman Will Cry In the Fitting Room"

  1. Bee says:
    Sun, 12th Jun 20113:28 pm 

    Going shopping with a friend and EVERYTHING your friend comes out wearing looks amazing while EVERYTHING you come out wearing looks awful (in your eyes). This is especially bad when you try on something you love and she tries on the same thing for fun.

  2. Kay says:
    Sun, 12th Jun 20114:15 pm 

    Thanks for number 4's quote "to impress the guy we convince ourselves we're in love with, who we stop talking to 1 month into college." Just got dumped about a week ago, about to go into college, and I like to think that that is what would have happened and that I don't really love him.

  3. Camila says:
    Sun, 12th Jun 20119:34 pm 

    It's even worse when it's your sister and she fits into the TINIEST things while every single ounce of fat you have seems to hang out of EVERYTHING

  4. Bee says:
    Sun, 12th Jun 201111:33 pm 

    I got lucky that my sister is quite a bit older than me and overweight. I wouldn't take joy in that if it wasn't for the fact that she's called me fat all my life. I feel for ya though :(

  5. Kayla says:
    Fri, 1st Jul 20116:34 pm 

    Pretty much the same situation and same…name? haha almost. But yeah, my hs boyfriend and I broke up a month before I graduated and even though I had a tough summer thinking about him, breaking up was the best thing that could happen to me before college, especially since it was a pretty messy breakup. My college is 6 hours away and I got to meet so many amazing people, and the right guys are just as eager to meet new girls for the right reasons. College is a completely new world, especially in the context of dating, if you choose to make it different than in hs. He and I never really talked again but I think we've both realized that we're in two different worlds and its better that way. And we both thought that we were "in love" in hs. Just have fun being single and going on dates without being in a relationship at least for the first part of the year. I'm sure you'll find that out soon enough. Best of luck girl, and get excited, college is a blast!

  6. VegVampire says:
    Tue, 5th Jul 20113:33 pm 

    Just saying the xs on bottom and xl on top thing really does suck. I'm a B cup with a large ribcage (my dress size is about a 10) that wears a size 5 pants. So cups never fit and you hope that cute suits come in seperates.

    And what about finding the perfect outfit for a special occasion that's IN BUDGET! That warrants tears of joy.

  7. Anna says:
    Thu, 7th Jul 20112:21 pm 

    As a salesperson, I've made a girl cry in the fitting rooms before. She wasn't happy about being measured as a 34F. (I gave her a hug. Getting that news is not always easy.)

  8. Karol says:
    Fri, 8th Jul 201111:09 am 

    First time in a dressing room post-baby is the first, and only, time I've ever cried.

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