For Christmas I offered to exand mrs woolly’s wardrobe.
More correctly I gave her a nice “gift certificate” from a boutique I know she liked (price wasn’t specified) and let her select the outfit she wanted. I’ve done this before and found it works much better than picking one just the wrong size, fit, style, shade of pastel blue etc.
All in all it went well. We didn’t get the “does this make my bum look big” type questions, 'cause mrs woolly ain’t that silly. We were there for almost 2 hours and the shop kindly offered me a decent cup of coffee and a nice chair from which I could sagely nod periodically and say “very nice” or “that suits you” etc.
Now she didn’t try on every size 12 in the shop, but likely most of them. I suspect this is not an unusual occurance.
Which begs the question. Has anybody ever worked out how often, on average, a dress is tried on before it’s purchased?