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Oct. 24th, 2004 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vicarzYou fat bastards.
I have had it with the US and it's poor physique. I'm fit, and wear size 29x30 pants. I have worn the same size for about a decade. I have purchased pants in that size for about as long. Many of my pants are fading with repeated machine washing, so I have been shopping for new pants.
I can't find new pants in 29x30.
I don't mean I can't find pants in 29x30 in bargain bins, in a rare style, or on sale. I mean in a store, on-line, and in the racks - 29x30 is an endangered species. Today my on-line search ranged from Eddie Bauer to target, for simple kakis (with a hope to find them in black) to wear to my gummint job, was to no avail. They no longer carry my size.
I can find 30x30. I can find 31x30, 32x30, 34x30 and up through 50x30. WTF. Someone my height with 20" more girth than I can find pants, and I can not. There are more people my height who have 10-20" more fat around their middle than I do who can buy pants, but I'm such a rare breed of proportion that I am to be denied pants for lack of marketability of the product that might fit.
I even lowered my pride inches further by looking to see the boy's sizes. I'll admit I have no idea what an 8, 12, or 18h represent, but it's not for a lack of trying. They come with related height and weight charts - but that doesn't sound like a good gauge of tailoring to me. I'm not entirely sure I could actually wear boy's clothes, my finger might reflexively be repulsed from clicking the mouse if I found such a product. I'd hate to be that guy on sex and the city who had his slutty blonde date freak out because she noticed his coat was from the boy's department.
After talking to the skinny gay guy who has joined my office, the thought of having clothes tailored comes to mind. I have the $bling$, but tailoring really doesn't make sense for a slob such as I who prefers to address his wardrobe out of the washing machine rather than unsheathed from the plastic-wrap of the dry cleaners.
Perhaps people my size don't buy pants.
I have had it with the US and it's poor physique. I'm fit, and wear size 29x30 pants. I have worn the same size for about a decade. I have purchased pants in that size for about as long. Many of my pants are fading with repeated machine washing, so I have been shopping for new pants.
I can't find new pants in 29x30.
I don't mean I can't find pants in 29x30 in bargain bins, in a rare style, or on sale. I mean in a store, on-line, and in the racks - 29x30 is an endangered species. Today my on-line search ranged from Eddie Bauer to target, for simple kakis (with a hope to find them in black) to wear to my gummint job, was to no avail. They no longer carry my size.
I can find 30x30. I can find 31x30, 32x30, 34x30 and up through 50x30. WTF. Someone my height with 20" more girth than I can find pants, and I can not. There are more people my height who have 10-20" more fat around their middle than I do who can buy pants, but I'm such a rare breed of proportion that I am to be denied pants for lack of marketability of the product that might fit.
I even lowered my pride inches further by looking to see the boy's sizes. I'll admit I have no idea what an 8, 12, or 18h represent, but it's not for a lack of trying. They come with related height and weight charts - but that doesn't sound like a good gauge of tailoring to me. I'm not entirely sure I could actually wear boy's clothes, my finger might reflexively be repulsed from clicking the mouse if I found such a product. I'd hate to be that guy on sex and the city who had his slutty blonde date freak out because she noticed his coat was from the boy's department.
After talking to the skinny gay guy who has joined my office, the thought of having clothes tailored comes to mind. I have the $bling$, but tailoring really doesn't make sense for a slob such as I who prefers to address his wardrobe out of the washing machine rather than unsheathed from the plastic-wrap of the dry cleaners.
Perhaps people my size don't buy pants.
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Date: 2004-10-24 06:58 am (UTC);-)
yup..
Date: 2004-10-24 07:06 am (UTC)Re: yup..
Date: 2004-10-24 11:43 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-10-24 07:31 am (UTC)I know it's not encouraging to add another step to just buying some damn pants dammit, but it's a solution. You buy 30x30 and have the waist taken in.
Tried Sears and/or JCPenney?
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Date: 2004-10-24 07:35 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-10-24 11:44 am (UTC)pushed aroundinflucenced.no subject
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Date: 2004-10-24 03:46 pm (UTC)i have issues with clothes not fitting too, but its probably due more to the fact that girls clothing follows no sizing pattern. i wear everything from 8 to 13, small to large. shopping is hell.
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Date: 2004-10-25 07:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-25 09:33 am (UTC)I could just get 30x30 and wait for my balls to hang down as low as the crotch does in those. It'll be great to go bungaga-bungaga when I walk.
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Date: 2004-10-25 09:32 am (UTC)Worth a shot though.
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Date: 2004-10-25 09:33 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-10-25 09:58 am (UTC)Question - are pleats bad?
Too late - bought 2 pairs black pleated wash n wear pants.
Thanx! Oh god...I just bought pants from the Gap.