Friday, May 18
throwing the towel in
i'd recently embarked on a quest to find the largest, softest towel around. i was actually alright with using my old one. my old ratty, stained with hair dye one until mark pointed out that perhaps i should invest in a new one (possibly after one night when i found my head fit through a large hole in the middle of the towel).
but u noe it's really not that easy at all, finding that Perfect Towel to finish off a most satisfying and relaxing bath. au contraire, it's really difficult. (& not jus cos im fussy or anything..) so anyways my search took me to John little. Takashimaya. Isetan. Spotlight & even Aussino. It was finally in Robinson's that i eventually found one that fulfilled most of the criteria i have for my PT.
the PT has to obviously be soft & fluffly. you wouldn't believe many of the could-double-as-sandpaper ones i ran my hand over at some stores. it's gotta be just the correct size. there are stacks upon stacks of face towels, hand towels, slightly larger hand towels, bath towels and beach towels, numerous times i pulled out what i thought would be the PT only to find it was a face towel in disguise. i dunno about you, but my PT has gotta be large enough so i can dry myself and my hair. on the other hand, it can't be so huge i can't fit it on my railing. then of course there's the pattern on the PT. a little trimming is acceptable, but nothing too gaudy or it'd feel like a hotel towel. personally i like my towels to be one colour, so no pictures or prints (with the exception of the anna sui ones i saw, that had a gorgeous little insignia embroided on & also cost 2 or 3 times a normal towel would.)
that's not all is it. there're so many things you find out about towels AFTER you've used them for the first time.
you noe how in movies, after the lead actress takes a shower she always seems to be wrapped up in the softest, fluffiest towel ever. that's where i think i got my notion of the PT from. (damn movies.) but so often, the towel disappoints. you either find out it's really coarse and would be better used as an exfoliater instead. or you find it doesn't absorb water as well as it should. you might even realize that it sheds lint with every wipe. or that holes start appearing after the 2nd or 3rd wash. it could honestly be quite infuriating if you think about it.
what's occured to me after all this while, is that searching for that PT is like searching for the Perfect Guy! :) there're criteria that have to be fulfilled as a partner & perhaps a certain way they should look. you search in different places & sometimes you have your eye on one but realize they're not available ( like a towel that's indefinitely out of stock). sometimes after you decide to take a chance on a guy, you realize he isn't all he seems to be. and then things might work out but after awhile get too strained or tiring that you give up. so you dump the old one and start hunting for a new one all over again!
im in no way belittling guys by comparing them to towels.
trust me. i take my towels very seriously. ¶ 3:07 PM
but u noe it's really not that easy at all, finding that Perfect Towel to finish off a most satisfying and relaxing bath. au contraire, it's really difficult. (& not jus cos im fussy or anything..) so anyways my search took me to John little. Takashimaya. Isetan. Spotlight & even Aussino. It was finally in Robinson's that i eventually found one that fulfilled most of the criteria i have for my PT.
the PT has to obviously be soft & fluffly. you wouldn't believe many of the could-double-as-sandpaper ones i ran my hand over at some stores. it's gotta be just the correct size. there are stacks upon stacks of face towels, hand towels, slightly larger hand towels, bath towels and beach towels, numerous times i pulled out what i thought would be the PT only to find it was a face towel in disguise. i dunno about you, but my PT has gotta be large enough so i can dry myself and my hair. on the other hand, it can't be so huge i can't fit it on my railing. then of course there's the pattern on the PT. a little trimming is acceptable, but nothing too gaudy or it'd feel like a hotel towel. personally i like my towels to be one colour, so no pictures or prints (with the exception of the anna sui ones i saw, that had a gorgeous little insignia embroided on & also cost 2 or 3 times a normal towel would.)
that's not all is it. there're so many things you find out about towels AFTER you've used them for the first time.
you noe how in movies, after the lead actress takes a shower she always seems to be wrapped up in the softest, fluffiest towel ever. that's where i think i got my notion of the PT from. (damn movies.) but so often, the towel disappoints. you either find out it's really coarse and would be better used as an exfoliater instead. or you find it doesn't absorb water as well as it should. you might even realize that it sheds lint with every wipe. or that holes start appearing after the 2nd or 3rd wash. it could honestly be quite infuriating if you think about it.
what's occured to me after all this while, is that searching for that PT is like searching for the Perfect Guy! :) there're criteria that have to be fulfilled as a partner & perhaps a certain way they should look. you search in different places & sometimes you have your eye on one but realize they're not available ( like a towel that's indefinitely out of stock). sometimes after you decide to take a chance on a guy, you realize he isn't all he seems to be. and then things might work out but after awhile get too strained or tiring that you give up. so you dump the old one and start hunting for a new one all over again!
im in no way belittling guys by comparing them to towels.
trust me. i take my towels very seriously. ¶ 3:07 PM
