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Pants

I've never understood the concept of women's pants. Yes I get the fact that they want to feel smaller so they don't put the inches and have some funkified system of measuring that makes no sense to anyone in the world. So we get that women can't handle having their inch size so they made up a weird system. Men on the other hand just don't care. If they're 44 inches around they're 44 inches around. Mens pants were thusly created with ingenuity, and given two numbers, one for the inches around the waist and one for the lenght of the pants. It's simple, flawless, and an excellent design.

Now I happen to know what my inch sizes are, 34x32 in case anyone actually cares. At any rate one would think that if they put on a pair of pants of this size that they would fit in them. It wouldn't require anything extra, it wouldn't require any putting on of fifty different sized pants, it would be simple, it would just plainly be putting on a pair of pants size 34x32 and being done. This is in fact not the case, see because in one brand regular 34x32's are way too small (the 36x32's being way too huge). The corresponding relaxed fit pants fit around my waist but are so wide around my legs that it feels like I'm wearing a dress. In another brand, the 34x32's fit nicely around the waist, but those are so long that I'm dragging my pants behind me like a train. In the end I am forced to wear this brands 34x30's, which are slightly too short for my tastes but which fit almost right.

I don't get it, I just don't get it. You can say what you want about how different brands are different, and how it all depends on this or that, but inches are inches, they don't change, they can't change. If one pair of pants is 34x32 it should fit someone with a 34 inch waist and 32 inch longness, then another pair of pants of the same size should do the same thing. They shouldn't be different!! For as much as I can complain about women's sizes, at least they don't make sense right off the bat. You know what you're getting, and you know that it's not going to be what it says it is. With men's clothing they trick you. They want you to think it has some thread of logic and then they laugh at you when you try on three thousand different pairs and have to enter and leave the dressing room twenty-three and a half times. It's insane!

Comments

roflcopter. It was humerous seeing you so frustrated over a pair of pants (or I should say the 10.3 million you tried on). :) love you ~Sugar

Posted by: Sugar | September 6, 2006 9:40 AM

hehehehe....

for some reason your rss is acting weird..

Posted by: Dan | September 6, 2006 9:50 AM

Awww...did HT have a bad day shopping? Poor him.

As far as the inches things goes, just remember that you live in America. We don't have the brightest individuals in the world and we believe truth is all relative. So, your 34 inches isn't everyone elses 34 inches. :)

Posted by: Daniel | September 6, 2006 8:32 PM

Hey... 34 inches is whatever my perception of 34 inches really is... and who are you to tell me if I'm wrong?

Posted by: Dan | September 7, 2006 8:46 AM

Wow, that was a pretty long commentary on the mystery of men's pants.

Posted by: Hottie | September 7, 2006 8:23 PM

Hope things are going well for you guys in NC!

Posted by: Josh | September 7, 2006 9:03 PM

I'm just curious to know how you know what a feels like to wear a dress?!
Hope all is going well for you, tell sugar I said Hi.

Posted by: Kim | September 7, 2006 9:09 PM

Whoever comes up with the sizes has a warped sense of humor.

I hope things are going well for you two down there in NC. I've been thinking about you guys.

Posted by: gorgeous | September 7, 2006 10:05 PM

i got tired of guys pants. im a 15 in girls sizes. they have way more options to choose from anyway. haha. guys just have baggy and baggy with cargo pockets. i like pants that fit, even if that does me "cross-dressing" in girls jeans. :)

Posted by: Benjamin Tubbs | September 19, 2006 2:41 PM

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