I'm not sure anybody can give me an "answer," but I thought if I voiced my problem your responses might help me figure out what to do.

Because I love smartwool socks, I decided I wanted a smartwool sweater. It came and I love the color (plum heather) and it feels oh-so-divine! Yum!

The problem is -- it looks AWFUL on me. It's an XL and sometimes they fit me and sometimes they don't, and in this case it's too tight. But worse than that, it looks like I'd need to lose a ton of weight for it to look good. It just molds to my weird shape in ways that even the jerseys don't seem to.

But I love the color and the way it feels. So part of me thinks, "Oh keep it, maybe you'll lose enough weight to wear it in public and in the meantime you can wear it as a bottom layer," and the other part of me says, "This cost too much to not to be able to wear unless it's cold enough to wear two layers."

I tend to care more about how things feel than how they look, so I could probably convince myself to wear it anyway, but do I really want to convince myself I dont care if I look bad?

I think in general this shirt is too clingy to look okay on me unless I lose a lot more weight than I will lose this winter, even if I read a whole lot and manage to lose weight.

So, give me advice or talk about your own issues. I just want some misery in my company, maybe!