u/Ok-Schedule6174

i normally refuse to check the children’s section for clothes, but i today i finally caved. i’ve been on the lookout for shorts for awhile now as the weather is starting to get hot, and i still haven’t found anything! either the 00s are sold out, or too big depending on where i go.

i decided to try target today since i’ve failed elsewhere, and their 00s were too big around my hips. so i was eyeing the children’s section because at that point i had no choice and i decided to take a few mediums and larges (and an extra large) because obviously kids sizing is different than adult sizing. and when i tell you they wouldn’t get past my thighs, i’m so serious. the extra large made it all the way up, but the button wouldn’t snap around my waist. so as usual, i left empty handed.

it got me thinking though, why on earth to people tell us to “just shop in the kids section”? i might be short but i still have curves and adult-like proportions. i’m still in a woman’s adult body and i should be able to shop for adult clothing. people that say that also don’t consider that at some point, we sized out of children’s clothing. i remember literally being in late middle school and early high school, growing out of my kid’s clothes and having to shop at more adult like stores for clothes. my body’s stayed the same but somehow i’m having to try to size back into kid’s clothes, and people think that makes sense? if i grew out of kid’s clothes and suddenly without my body changing i’m having to even consider going back to kid’s clothes again, there’s a sizing issue. i was wearing 0’s and smalls, extra smalls at the smallest in clothes, and even some mediums when i started wearing more grown clothes. now somehow with my body barely changing, i’m an xxs and 00 and even then sometimes i either can’t find what i need because it’s sold
out or doesn’t fit.

if anyone has any shorts recommendations please let me know! i’m 5’1” and 100lbs!