Shopping (or not)

Now that the weather has started heating up and the humidity is rising, it has become necessary to find some light cotton trousers. I did bring four pairs out with me but two of them have become worn and holey, and the other two are just a little bit too small to wear comfortably.

So today I went to the biggest shopping centre reachable by bus and had a good old look around. Sad to report, absolutely nothing! I have two problems, one is actual size (I'm about three times bigger than the average woman here), the other is length (I'm about six inches higher than the average woman here). What the Argentines call large or extra-large is what we'd call medium, so my chances were minimal anyway.

On top of all that, there is the problem of material. There is a tendency to use synthetic material but when they use natural material (mainly cotton) it is poor quality and badly made.

Now I have a choice: lose some weight (not a quick remedy) or get some trousers made. I'll be pursuing both options but in the meantime count yourselves lucky that you live in Europe!