We wear the exact same 32 waist x 34 inseam . . . and you’re six inches taller than me?!? What, you’re including your Don King hairdo or something?
But I agree, it’s MUCH easier to find 34x34’s. There are at least five times as many of those. Economies of scale, I guess.
Javaman, looks like we’re both about the same size/shape. Glad to know I’m not the only one who’s noticed this… Jeans, I have no problem with. Slacks are dang near impossible.
Yes indeed it does. I have the same problem (only I’m a guy, which you could argue is worse when you’re short); I’m 5’4", have a 31" waist, and a 28" inseam. Try finding THAT in a store sometime! When I hear big guys complaining about not being able to find clothes in normal stores, I just have to laugh a bitter, disillusioned, hacking sort of laugh. At least there is the concept of a “big and tall men’s store”. Try finding a “short men’s store” sometime. I’ve heard of exactly one, Mark’s in Dallas, and it has closed down! Arrgghh!! I have to order pants through catalogs, and then only catalogs which will agree to hem them to order. Which isn’t as many of them as you’d think.
I hate pants shopping. Particularly jeans. Fucking clothes Nazis. (And no mention of Godwin’s Law, y’hear? It’s not a debate.)
Five foot seven, 30" inseam, 30" waist. I buy jeans off the rack and they fit.
I buy Dockers off the rack and they fit.
Dress pants, like with a suit, usually have legs that are far too long.
The answer to which, as with so many of life’s problems, is: duct tape!
6’4" - 310 pounds. Size 46 waist. Size 15 shoe. I could complain about this all day.
I can’t get shoes unless they’re custom-ordered. If I ever wander into a shoe store and for some odd reason they have anything in a size 15, I buy them. The only two stores I go to that actually stock 15s are the Casual Male Big & Tall outlet store in Riverhead, Long Island, which is 10 minutes from my mom’s house and about 2 hours from my apartment in NYC. The other store, believe it or not, is Vans, which is right next to the Big & Tall store. They stock many sneakers in 15, so I buy all my athletic shoes there. Sure, it means I look like a total skater when I go to the gym, but they’re reaaaaaally comfortable.
Thank God for the Gap Online, too. I can order my size 46 jeans, which I don’t have a prayer of coming across in the Gap down the street. And I have the added bonus of not having to deal with Gap salespeople, who are just intolerable.
I do most of my clothes shopping either online or in the Big & Tall store. But, like RainbowDragon, I find lots of variation between L, XL, XXL and such. I have some “L” shirts in my wardrobe alongside others that are “XXXL.” I even have a “4X Tall” shirt that fits me perfectly, while another shirt in another style from the same manufacturer is simply “XL” and also fits well.
One last thing… I find that Casual Male Big & Tall tends to treat its customers with a lot of respect, unlike other clothing stores I’ve visited. A while back, I had a Gap salesperson from the store on 85th Street and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan come over to me while I was browsing and say “I don’t think you’re going to find ANYTHING in this store in YOUR size” with an accompanying snotty look. And the Gap probably wonders why SNL makes fun of their salespeople…
Sorry I know it’s not related, but
WHAT THE FUCK IS SIZE ZERO!!!
I am not a big woman, but even when I did weigh 110 lbs. I was wearing a 3/4. So who the hell are these space aliens wearing size ZERO?
(based on intelligence reports furnished me by my best female friend, Katharine) Women’s sizes make NO sense. They are apparently of even more bewildering variance between stores; they apparently decrease progressively (that is to say that the same waist size will yield a 7 one season and a 6 the next) for some reason. (I actually have a friend who’s a size zero, but she’s also, like, 4’11" or something.)
From what I know, guys, our problems ain’t got shit on theirs.
(I’m 6’1", 32/34, so I’ve got Thunder & Minty’s issue as well.)
-Someone Else
My husband is 6’2 . He wears 32 waist and 36 inseam. Try finding a pair of these. It’s almost impossible. I have found Jeans at Pennys but I have yet to find a pair of dress pants that haven’t had to be altered to fit.
Related gripe. I agree with some of the previous posters on finding large shoes. My 14 yr. old son wears a size 15 shoe.Not only are these very hard to find I also have to buy him socks at a Big and Tall shop. Regular size socks are just too tight on him. Talk about getting ripped off.I end up paying huge amounts of money for the shoes and then get raped on the socks.
31 inch inseam here. Not 30, nor 32. Should I go for the high-water look or let the jeans fall around my shoes in willowy ruffles? Can we please make rolled-up jeans fashionable again?
Yes, Wrangler makes jeans with my inseam. They also make me look like I’m missing a 10-gallon hat as an accessory.
No, um… to be honest I’ve always thought my legs were too long when compared in proportion to the rest of my body. Dunno what to say.
I learned something weird recently. Try taking a pair of 32x34 trousers and another pair of 34x34 trousers from the same rack. Then hold up the inseams to compare them. Since they both report the same 34" inseam, they should match, right? But they don’t. The 34x34 are invariably longer than the 32x34. It’s almost like they don’t believe us, and are thinking, “if that dude has a 32” waist, he really doesn’t have the 34" inseam that he thinks he does."
Try one waist size larger, and take it in a little, I guess =/
5’5 1/2", 24 waist and 34 inseam. I only buy pants with elastic waistlines that I can take in, or 32 waist/32 inseam that sit on my hips.
I was invited to a homewarming for someone at work whose wife had only seen me sitting at my desk (I look about 5 feet tall sitting down). She asked him in all honesty who I was.
Who are they? I’ll tell you who they are. My stepmother, that’s who. She’s five-foot-nothing and weighs, I think, 95 pounds. It’s sickening. Plus, Dr. LindyHopper and I think she had a boob job sometime in the last few years. She’s like ten years younger than my dad, and she’s obviously getting older now, but she’s so insecure that she has to keep herself looking like a little Pez dispenser.
Whenever someone else (like my sister) gains just a little bit of weight, she comments on it. I’m talking about someone being 5’2" and 115 pounds. “She’s really getting heavy!” Fuck you!
Space aliens is right.
Re sizes: At one time I was a 28" 33" - that was a challenge (I’m 6’1" and at that time I weighed about 140). I’m now at about 177 and can, miracle, of miracles, buy 32" or 34" waists, depending on manufacturer. Lately, I prefer things lower-waisted so that means I can get a 32" inseam, and 34" x 32" is some sort of manufacturing sweet spot where they make everything.
Now, I’ve heard that when fabric is cut for clothes, it’s cut in great pile. That means that there can be a lot of variability - up to an inch or so. Anyone in the trade know if this is true?
And about that size zero: my godmother, who’s been rail thin all her life. After her divorce she went through a period of terrible poverty, so she depended on the Seattle Goodwill for clothes. And what did they always have? Racks of size zeros and 2s from Nordstrom, all in designer labels, for pennies - it was the stuff Nordies could never sell because there weren’t enough rich people in town who were that thin. (I’m guessing a lot of it was just for display mannequins.) So here she was, practically on food stamps, but with the most glamorous wardrobe in town!
I don’t know why but this thread is killing me.
Like hell am I divulging my weight and measurements but let’s just say I have broad shoulders, small tits, small waist and a big arse. If a top doesn’t hang over my chest like a tent, I can’t lift my arms in it. If I can comfortably sit down in trousers or a skirt, I need to either wear a belt or a shirt long enough to hide the waist. This is just one of the reasons I hate shopping.
It’s interesting though that I have fewer problems at secondhand shops - it seems to be mostly the new fashions that cause these problems.
…an no ones even mentioned kids sizes
Even their shoe sizes are weird (whose arent?), but there are two sets and the numbering scheme starts over. :wally
I’m often amazed at which of my threads take off.