30% OFF AT KOHL'S

A nasty virus interrupted my "Wedding" reflection which I will finish up after this brief interlude.

We had a thirty percent off coupon for Kohl's. Thirty percent is a LOT and not to be ignored. So off we went this evening to peruse the merchandise and see if there was anything without which we could live. My goal was to add into my wardrobe another "shaper" thingie. Now a shaper is an undergarment, meant for females, and squeezes together the loose, flabby, floppy, excesses. Since I have lost weight, I notice some, maybe not all, of these conditions.

In my youth, more than fifty years ago, we squeezed our mid regions into elasticized tubing. We would step into the tube, pull, wiggle, pull, squiggle, tug, even lie back on the bed and squirm our mid region into place. The name of the tube was girdle. Located at the bottom of the girdle, which ended anywhere from just below the crotch to slightly above the knee, were four tabs onto which we fastened our stockings -- hose, they were called -- long skinny tubes to cover our legs. If you were not fairly solidly built, the area between the bottom of the girdle and the top of the hose was....well, a bulge.

"Shapers" also come in various lengths, with and without legs. And of varying degrees of squish. I happened upon a seamless, mid thigh, comfortably squish style. I wore it to the fortieth anniversary, which I will recall for you after the wedding piece. A wonderful little undergarment. AND 30% OFF!