Pants Conclusion

The pants arrived today. They were delivered right to my door. When I got home for lunch they were sitting on my front porch in the rain. Thankfully they were well protected by the packaging. I was extremely excited by their arrival. I checked out a pair of the jeans, and a pair of the casuals. They looked decent enough. I didn't have time to try them on right away because I had to get back to work. Needless to say the anticipation of trying on my new pants was killing me thisafternoon. The first thing I did when I got home was try on the blue jeans. I don't know what kind of mutant they were designed for, but they're definitely going back. The pants come right up to my belly button, making me look like Ed Grimley of SCTV fame. My confidence dashed, I tried on a pair of the casuals. They look and feel great, and best of all they fit. If anything they may be a bit too long. If they are I'll just get them altered. All in all I'm happy. JC Penny has a good return policy, and makes it very easy. I just drop the unwanted pants back in the mail with a slip that says why I'm returning them.

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Pants Update

My father called me tonight suggesting I check out JC Penny.com. He told me to go to the men's department and click on extra-tall. To make a long story tall, I have successfully purchased three pairs of casual pants and two pairs of jeans in my size, 32X38. They should arrive early next week. When all is said and done I will have paid around $200 Canadian for 5 pairs of pants that fit. Not bad. I'll let you know how it works out in the end.

Pants

I write before you the most frustrated man in history. Today I went to a men's clothing store to procure some pants. I want a couple nice pairs of casual pants for the office. They didn't have casual khaki's or cords in my size, but they did have khaki's with a dress pant cut in my size. I tried them on. They fit. I hated them. They made me look even skinnier than I already am, if that's possible. I admit, with a 32 inch waist and 38 inch inseam, my dimensions are freakish. Why is it, however, that there is an underlying assumption in North America that if you are especially tall, you must also be especially thick in the middle? And why is it that the pants they do make for tall skinny men are cut in such way as to make the poor bastards look like freaks. I'm thinking conspiracy.

Feeling dejected, I came home to do an internet search for tall skinny pants. The conspiracy seems to be world-wide. I visited a dozen different sites. None of them let you choose an inseam dimension to go with the waist size. I'm not going to order pants on-line unless I know they're the right size. I'm not Michael Jackson. I don't wear floods to show off my sequened socks.

When I'm at school I see tall skinny guys everywhere. Many of them are taller than me, and they're all wearing Pants, jeans mostly. I'm sure they run into the same problems I do with dressier types of trousers. I think I may have discovered my million dollar idea. I could start a pant manufacturing plant that churns out pants of all styles especially cut and designed for tall skinny men. It seems I have much work to do.