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.
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.
posted by Matt Swanson at 1:08 PM
2 Comments:
Well, Matt, I can relate, although my problems aren't so much to do with inseam as they are with the waist dimensions. Yes, I'm a little chubby, I'll admit it, but for most of my adult life, I've hovered right on the top end of clothing sizes, both in pants and shirts. What frustrates me is that one manufacturer's size-42 waist will fit spaciously, while another's is too small to even pull all the way on, let alone button up! What's up with that? I would never risk ordering pants online even though I know the dimensions I need because of this inconsistency. I got lucky last year and found a couple cheap pairs of jeans that fit me, but they're starting to fade and give out, so I know that soon I will have to go on the hunt yet again.
Oh, and shirts are no better. I took a risk and didn't bother to try on an XXL black t-shirt I saw at Saan for $6 the other day. Well, wouldn't you know it, it was way too small -- even tighter than an XL is normally. And it was a final sale so I'm out $6. I guess I should have realized it would be since it was made in Bangladesh. Bangladeshi are much smaller than North Americans, after all, so XXL there is probably equivalent to a skinny vegan here...
Tip: Horizontal stripes will make your pants appear wider than they actually are.
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