Last week I went shopping for some shirts at Simons. I found a cute blue grid number and tried it on. Well, it went on, but let’s just say it emphasized things I really don’t need emphasized.
I apostrophized the clerk, who informed me that this was a “semi-fitted” cut. Apparently its sides curve inward, meaning it is concave: /) (\
I am convex: /( )\
I asked if this shirt was available with straight sides, so it would actually fit me. No, I was told; straight sides are being phased out.
That’s fuckin’ nice, they’re phasing out my body type
This week I went to look for some shirts at Winners and Zara. I got two collared shirts and two t-shirts – one L, two XL, and one XXL.
They all fit me and are all the same size.
Also, by no stretch of the imagination am I extra, extra large. Not even my pathetic self-esteem even tried to believe that one.
Apparently men’s sizes and tailoring are now as fucked up as women’s. I don’t think this is better.
I just bought a new pair of jeans, 36" x 30", and it definitely looked like they were running out of my size. If you’re really big or really small, you’re all set.
That’s what I suspected. But haven’t you read the entire thread? It appears that
several Dopers are wearing my pants at this very moment! And neither I - nor my fellow commuters and co-workers who are subjected to me strolling around in my boxers - are any too happy about that!
It all started when they began to inflate the sizes of men’s clothing. A normal guy wears a “Large” shirt. Scrawny guys wear Mediums. If you wear a Small, then you’re Vern Troyer. On the other end, guys that are kinda hefty (like me) wear XL. Guys that really are unusually large wear XXL and other multiple-X sizes.
Now we’re getting odd cuts in our pants. Beware the slippery slope
34 x 34 at 40, just like back in high school :). Of course I never exercised back then and ate whatever crap I wanted, while now the status quo is maintained only through brute force and running 25mi/wk. I shudder at the thought of how this will ramp up.
This is sort of true. I used to be a size medium in shirts (5’9"). Now in some places I’m a small, and in others I’m still a medium, but really I’m just in the middle somewhere. It’s especially a pain with button-up shirts because they’re either tight around my chest but the right length, or they go halfway to my knees but fit nicely around my chest/shoulders. Stupid clothes. I should learn to sew and make my own. Except that takes motivation, and I’m all motivated out at the moment.
shit I can’t find anything in 32x32. Or 34x32. Ideally I’d probably wear like a 33x33 but those don’t even EXIST as far as I can find. Consider yourself lucky to not fit exactly in between several of the most common (and therefore unavailable) sizes :\
