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My love affair with the J Jill store is over....



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I had my first "non plus size store NSV" at the J Jill store (which is 125 miles from my house), since then, I have just been in love with the store, the clothes, the fact that they FIT my slimmer me, etc.......

But now--and this is the exciting part--

I live in a TINY northwoods Wisconsin town. No where to shop for clothes except Walmart, Kmart and Shopko which gets a little (alot) old after a while. NOw some cute hip chick has opened a fab boutique right here in our town! I went today "just to look".

I found a pair of pants I thought might work. She put them in the dressing room. I am still too big to fit into the gorgeous sweaters and most of the tops she had..... Tried on the pants. Nice, but something not right. Came out and asked her (very skinny, blonde and CHIC) what she thought. She said "they are too big". I almost fell over. Too big? Never experienced too big. She brought me a regular size 14. They fit like they were made for me. I almost cried I was so happy.

NO more JJill. shopping locally. bought two pair of those size 14 pants, and a new top that is an XL, but I can live with that (I guess I have to, since I have boobs!).

Just wanted to share with people who KNOW what it feels like.

Happy day for me today.

:)

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OMG!! Like, I haven't worn a size 14 since high school... (a little flashback to the 80's for you).

WOW! What a great NSV. Happy Day!!

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I'm so looking forward to that. I walked past My Size yesterday (a plus sized store here) and I thought to myself after a few months, I'm NEVER going to shop there again.

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Congrats Kimber!!!

OMG!! Like, I haven't worn a size 14 since high school... (a little flashback to the 80's for you).

And Rene...I would have to go back to jr high...forget highschool. Class of '83 here.

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Ditto - class of '83. Joseph High School, Joseph, Oregon.

I figure if I can EVER wear a size 14 again, the whole band process will be a raging success.

I have never worn a womens size below that, so it will be a voyage of discovery if I ever get my head wrapped around being smaller than that.

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CONGRATS !!! I had just hit that myself, such a wonderful feeling . Keep going , you are going strong !!! :)

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