I bought a pair of trousers today. This means that I now have two pairs of weekend trousers, so I can now wash them! Yay!

Not a big deal, you may think. No, this is a bigger deal than it may seem: UK trousers normally never fit me. (The last pair I bought only fit well until after the first wash. Or maybe until I lost some more of my mummy weight? In any case, now they sort of fit OK-ish at best.)

Of the 5 pairs I had that fit me, I had bought one in the US and 3 in Estonia, Estonia being closer and cheaper than the US, and the last one from a French mail order catalogue. My hiking trousers are also of an American brand. I suspect English women have a fundamentally different body shape with straight hips and no waist.