Then, too, our tastes are different. But if she trips and breaks something, I won't visit her in the hospital. That way, I could fudge on the fit. Other than jeans, my mother is forever in search of trousers with stitched or permanently pressed creases down the front. I'll confess, I don't worry about wrinkles.
Mom hates all kinds of wrinkles.
And she isn't up to ironing anymore. Which brings me to another major consideration. Because my mother depends on the staff at her retirement home to launder her clothes, she needs easy-care fabrics. She certainly can't ask the aides to hand wash and she can't count on them to remember which clothes require cold water or which need to be line dried. My job is finding clothes guaranteed not to fade, shrink or otherwise change appearance.