So you know the drill. You wanna go shop with your friends, cause it’s fun, you don’t look like a loner, you can act more crazy and go to all types of stores because it is seemignly more “legal” when you’re not alone. But then again… At times you just wanna go by yourself. So you don’t have to wait while others go in stores you have no interest in (I think we all have been in the man-waiting-for-the-woman-role, even if we’re women). Don’t have to hurry when you’re taking your time in a store the others have no interest in. And you can try things on without worrying about having to show it off to your friends when it doesn’t fit or look good.
Take, a pair of jeans. The worst thing to have to shop for many. It takes a lot of time, you never know which size you have to get, you are afraid to grab the actual size you have to get because the number in the jeans may be a little bit higher than you wish, and god forbid your friends should see that. Then when you get in the fitting room, you struggle to get those suddenly very, very tight jeans on that you have ambitiously taken in a size smaller than what you think you might need. And you struggle. And you manage to zip them. And you look at your love handles, and think to yourself “won’t work.”
But if you are in fact shopping with others, they will highly likely ask to see them on. You hear the knocking on the door. “Are they on? Come on out and show us!” So you have to flash the poor result. And make someone go get another size while you hear (or at leats think you hear) the slight sigh from the seated, waiting friends. Some are of course very patient – but you will always feel some amount of guilt when keeping people waiting if they haven’t found anything to try on in the shop.
Fit or no fit, it’s always easier, at least for me, to try new types of clothes on, other styles than you’re used to, more outrageous models, and things out of your usual element when you’re shopping alone, cause no one is there to witness if it doesn’t fit you or doesn’t work on you. Cause if it indeed doesn’t, it is kind of a taboo (in your own eyes, but probably not in the eyes of others, it’s just another misfit. And sometimes you really need the eyes of others to help you in shopping-decisions!).
If I’m shopping with others, I tend to buy less and try less on. If I go shopping with others, I go for the fun of it, not to do determined shopping. If I go shopping alone, I go to do some serious shopping.
tabooyah 
