Not like the other girls...
Feb. 28th, 2009 09:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusI've admitted for many years that I am a geek and have no issues where that is concerned. Next week I've got a couple of days off work and admitted that it's time for my biennial shopping trip for clothes since my underwear is starting to fall to bits - in general, if I need a pair of trousers, for example, the fact that a couple of local supermarkets now sell clothes has been sufficient for me.
However, the statement I made at work that provoked the most disbelief was this one: I have never owned a handbag.
Peeps at work - "But where do you keep your stuff?"
Me - "I have a briefcase for work, otherwise I use a daysack or my pockets."
Peeps at work - *stunned silence*
Me - "Do you really need a handbag and a briefcase if you're working?"
Peeps at work - "Probably not, but still... never?"
Me - "Nope."
And then I told them I didn't really care for buying shoes either. ;) E.T.A. Last wore a skirt in 1991, don't own a skirt or a dress and haven't for a similar length of time.
Help me, oh friendslist - surely I am not alone in this lack of slavish devotion to the cult of handbags and shoes? I always knew I was not a 'girl', even when biologically I was young enough, but even so...
However, the statement I made at work that provoked the most disbelief was this one: I have never owned a handbag.
Peeps at work - "But where do you keep your stuff?"
Me - "I have a briefcase for work, otherwise I use a daysack or my pockets."
Peeps at work - *stunned silence*
Me - "Do you really need a handbag and a briefcase if you're working?"
Peeps at work - "Probably not, but still... never?"
Me - "Nope."
And then I told them I didn't really care for buying shoes either. ;) E.T.A. Last wore a skirt in 1991, don't own a skirt or a dress and haven't for a similar length of time.
Help me, oh friendslist - surely I am not alone in this lack of slavish devotion to the cult of handbags and shoes? I always knew I was not a 'girl', even when biologically I was young enough, but even so...
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Date: 2009-02-28 01:59 pm (UTC)I found I had to use handbags when my son was small to carry things that children need ---first it was a diaper bag (I hated the real ones so adapted a canvas handbag). Then, even when he was a little bigger, there was tissues, snacks, etc.
So I bought three very good sag-like leather bags that I use only on rare occasions (I bring them on vacation to theme parks).
My grip is that they don't build decent pockets into women's clothes, particularly jackets. I always long for that inside breast pocket to tuck in my credit-card size wallet.
But alternatively, I do like buying clothes and shoes. They just tend to be more tailored.