Oct 24
How hard can it be to buy a shirt?
While the rest of the family were enjoying being at the theatre watching ‘Hairspray’, I was enjoying not being at the theatre watching ‘Hairspray’. So far, so good. Prior to meeting everyone for a meal afterwards, I decided to go shopping “for some shirts”. This was to be the first foolhardy step in a depressingly unsuccessful attempt to add to my wardrobe.
I spent a good hour or so trying all the obvious places: Debenhams, Next, Next Clearance, BHS, Gap, M&S and, because I was desperate by this stage, even one or two slightly more trendy shops. The end result was the same in all of them: nothing I wanted to buy. At all. In fact, hardly anything came close. I guess my main problem is that I don’t like patterned shirts. And I like short-sleeved shirts. This seems to thin the field rather too much. And it seemed that all the non-patterned short-sleeved shirts in Oxford yesterday were in colours that I didn’t like.
Still, the afternoon wasn’t a complete disappointment: they started playing ‘Ghostbusters’ just as I walked into HMV, which was thoughtful of them. Shame that I couldn’t call Shirtbusters, I suppose…
So, in summary:
- Hours spent at the shops: 2
- Number of musical theatre productions carefully avoided: 1
- Number of shirts purchased: 0
