It turns out that fashion in the ice skating world is as rigorously programmed as fancy clothing or auto designs are in the real world.  Designers/makers use This Year's Patterns basically exclusively.   And wouldn't you know it - the dresses that I like fall into last year's category!  The immediate upshot of this is that the dress I ordered in blue isn't available in blue for grownups any more, but only black.  After hemming and hawing, I went ahead and responded to the email saying that yes, I wanted the dress in black.  I haven't heard from the person since, and they failed to give a complete phone number in their email.  (I haven't listened to the phone message they left at my home; hopefully there's a complete number there.)  Another website that claimed to have that dress admitted, when I called them, to having none in stock of any color.

But really, it seems rather unfair that things like this cannot be found in adult medium anymore because it's last year's friggin' pattern.  I am peeved.

(As an aside to the previous post: I can get into an adult small, but it's awfully tight.  I misremembered; it was the juvenile 12-14 that I couldn't fit into at all.)

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EDIT: Dress ordered.  It is promised to be in my hot little hands on or before 9/30.