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Festive ritual prompts party-dress panic

Shannon Humphreys on my special Party Dress plates, saving degrading vears, like cigarettes and sex. burps, which, despite what thar the dress that tits at the
Contributing Writer Diet. Peat lors of traf and things to me tke “Motlier, Tes all very unsettling, butt my children sav, are net really beginning of the party will
vegetables, P cut down on you are pathetic” with disdain bold on te that vision of dQ good substitute for witty stay that way.
SOME people really Cheesies, and [restrict myself’ in their voices. myself in iny Christmas “92 conversation. — Shannon Unmplorevs is
enjoy going to to only one box of When they are full finish party dress aid soldier on, And there is no guarantee oa West Vaeonrer wrtrer.
Christmas parties. As | Macintosh’s tofice per day. I whatever is left uneatert oi Occasionally PI manage
get older I find that in prder low at Inites a my their Dates. ( his. of curse, to ken a vouple pounds, st
order for me to enjoy a local coffee shop and switch is Hot reall stacking, it's enough se thang ca ? squeeze
: from regular to hight beer. actually part of the kitchen into one of my dresses,
party, I have to have a T always stare out strong, cleanup. If Pay borderline, Mi
comfortable party dress Then the hunger makes The continued lack of starve myself all day so that |
to wear. me desperate, When Tam ar food fous my brain. J start can fir into my party dress at
the dinner table with my chil- thinking things like ... if] night. The problem with this

Make no mistake, I have dren, | hover over them as drink two glasses of skim milk is that for the first half-hour
not yet reached the point they eat their tantalizing 1 can eat one chocolate bar, of the party J can’t make
where fam prepared to sacri- meals, seizing a rater gem and... potato chips are OK smal talk because | am too
fice style for comfort. The here and a pizza crust there. because they are made froma busy eating everything in
truth is, I love party dresses. They swat at my hand as J veuctable. [crave things | sight. I inevitably eat too
Ive picked up some real nip the odd morsel fram their haven't thought about in much too fast so F get the
beauties during my adult lite,
and I have saved every one of
them.

At the beginning of cach
December I go through a rit- A . a ane _
ual: FE haul all my old party . |
dresses out of storage and try VY S
them on. The result is always
the same; with the exception
of the frumpy black dress f
got after the birth of my last
child, they are all too small.

The slinky red number
from Christmas °92 won't
even go over my hips. The
cocktail dress I picked up for
Christmas °89 is ripped from
when [ tried to fit into it for
Christmas '94, and the blue
silk party dress from
Christmas °86 needs a new
zipper in the rear. (I will keep
these party dresses until the
day I die. Thev simply aren't
suitable this year.)

Rather chan being reduced
to wearing the old black
dress, which really goes
against my sense of style, I go

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