Open a clothing store, that offers the following service:
We will remove the goddam motherfucking extremely sharp genocidal giant steel stabbing daggars (AKA “pins”) that they put in the shirts for you, before you take them home!
Ow!
They will recognise that not all 42 inch waists belong to short people.
By the way. Now that I’m done bleeding all over myself, I have a request:
Someone please explain shirt sizes to me. For example, what in the hell does “18 1/2 35/6” mean? Alls I know is that this shirt, in addition to trying to kill me, is a little too tight around my spectacular gut.
Keep in mind that you’re addressing a person who doesn’t understand anything more complicated than “XL.”
18 1/2 is your neck size, 35 is your sleeve/chest.
Next time ask the attendant to measure you so you get the right size and remember that pretty much every dress shirt is going to have those daggers in it :).
This store could be quite popular, at that. My wish would be for them to carry girls’ and women’s pants (such as blue jeans) that have size markings for waist and inseam.
Or, if they don’t want to cater to the off-the-rack customer who doesn’t have the exact proportions necessary to wear one of the twelve sizes available, they could just have a while-you-wait alterations department.
a store which places the anti-theft tag in a LOGICAL place. You know, like not at the direct back of the neck where it 1) is annoying as all hell. 2) doesn’t destroy the fit of the shit making it impossible to tell if it actually hangs right or not
(Or tell people who throw the pins all over the dressing room floor that they’ll be thrown out, permanently.)
Why not make bikini tops according to cup size, like bras? It would be a hell of a lot easier to shop for a bathing suit!
I hate it when my shit don’t fit, but at least then I must acquit.
El El Friholes manages to package shirts without pins (Land’s End, too), so it is definitely possible. I suspect it is more expensive to do it that way, which is why most shirts come with pins.