Please don’t get me started on shoes. I have wide feet. I can wear pretty shoes for a couple of hours, but when I buy boots or walking shoes, I always used to be able to buy a boy’s size and I knew the right size. I’ve recently learned that those sizes are changing as well and will be returning a pair of shoes I bought online.
Same maker, same make and model, same size that I’ve worn for years, but they are too small.
Yeah well, I made the mistake of trying on some Levi’s last Christmas. They’re supposed to come in curvy now, yes?
Even the curviest variant still needs fitting, plus I swear whomever made them never heard of bumps. They were a continuous curve… my outside is most definitely not a continuous curve from waist to ankle. Now, not taking extra-wide thighs into account, ooook, if you have thick thighs you’re not supposed to wear Levi’s, gotcha, but knees? Knees are standard! It’s as if they took their old straight-lines design and just pulled the outside out.
The attendant was completely befuddled. They were in the middle of the launch, and every “oh cool, they make Levi’s for me now!” woman who’d walked into the store had walked out shaking her head; she’d barely sold anything to new customers. Originally they hadn’t received any of the extra-curvies, which were the ones selling less badly (apparently those are supposed to be for black women… “you mean, like the lady who owns the jewelry store next door?” Hello, we’ve got black people living all over the country now! Welcome to the 21st century!).
Benadryl. Keep some of it in your house at all times, or the generic equivalent. Just don’t drive or operate heavy machinery after you take it. I tell you, that stuff is priceless. When I had my latest allergic reaction, I itched all over, and started getting hives. I took two Benadryl, and the symptoms were gone within 30 or 45 minutes.
I swear, I don’t think that clothing designers actually THINK about the women who might want to wear their clothing. It seems perfectly possible to design men’s clothing that is both attractive AND functional, so why can’t women’s clothing be like that, too?
And poor Buttercup. She sounds like a wonderful dog, and doesn’t deserve to be bullied.
Thanks, Everyone. It’s be a lot of hard work and I’m about 25 lbs from goal, but I am focusing on maintaining what I’ve lost far through the end of the year before I try to lose some more. I have lots of practice losing weight. Very little at maintaining that loss.
Interesting, it’s been a very long time since I’ve had black jeans, so I don’t remember if that was the case.
Yep! Decent sized pockets. Yay!
My sister has very similar issue with shoes. Very frustrating!
That was my problem with Levi’s when I was heavier. No matter what size I put on, they didn’t fit somewhere on my body. Not even the curviest styles. I very nearly didn’t try these on, but they were on sale for a very good price and I was curious to see if they would fit. I about cried right there in the dressing room when they did.
Partly because of differring expectations: most guys don’t wear clothes as form-fitting as women’s, nor are they expected to.
Preach it, sister. I’m about 4kg from goal (yet again) and if I bounce back up (yet again), well it isn’t going to be pretty.
I’ve heard bad things about Levi’s lately regarding that exact issue. Apparently they changed how they cut the pieces out of the material so no two pairs of jeans fit the same anymore, even in the same type and size. That’s why I’m sticking to Lee’s right now. They still fit right.
I’d loved the “Dreamer” fit of jeans made by Old Navy but since they’re not skinny-legged or the super-curvy hourglass style, they stopped carrying them in-store and only sell online. (I checked the online “search in store inventory” option and there are none within 50 miles of Chicago.) Worse yet, per the online reviews, people are complaining that they’re using shitty denim to make them in the last year or so. I’m disappointed because previously I could buy jeans off-the-rack if I went there - due to my long leg length, it’s not easy for me to do that for jeans or pants.
That’s actually pretty common–they stack multiple pieces of fabric up and cut them together to make the process more efficient. The thing is, fabric layers shift around when you do that, and the more layers there are the more shifting you get. The more shifting you get, the more differently-sized your pieces get. The cheaper the clothing, the more likely they are to use bigger stacks to save time/labor, so the more size variation you’re likely to have.
I wonder is Steve is cranky still over his teeth and is taking it out on Buttercup. Poor little Buttercup.
Sweet little Buttercup?
(wanders off, chuckling)
I’ve also been told that different colors of pants are often made at different factories, even if the styles are the same.
I’ve completely given up on women’s pants…every pair of pants (and shorts) I own, with the exception of two pairs of dress pants, came from the men’s department. I still have the color issue though…for instance, with L.L. Bean tropic-weight pants, the dark khaki ones have a very good fit, while the light khaki (in the same size) are consistently way too tight.
A podcaster (Scott Johnson of the Frogpants Network) has asserted that Nike factories make only one half of a shoe’s pair - i.e., one factory does all left shoes and another all right shoes. Since my husband has one foot slightly larger than the other and he never fits properly into Nikes, I think this might explain much. They might be off just enough (or just tight enough on sizing) that they don’t work for him but other brands do.
Why are some people such assholes?
I was at a nice garage sale this morning, looking over some shoes for my girls. They outgrow them all the time so buying them used makes sense. I had three pairs I thought might do nicely. I placed two in in my bag for a minute and put the other one on my toddler daughter’s feet. Some asshole literally grabbed the two pairs out of my bag! When I told him they were mine, he had the nerve to say not anymore! My inner New Yorker told the fucker that he either put them back in my bag or I would have him prosecuted for pickpocketing. The SOB threw the shoes on the floor and gave me a dirty look.
Fucking asshole. I later saw him taking things at the same literally out of people’s bags. I’m sorry I didn’t tell the people running the place about his antics.
I strongly suspect that is what is going on. Steve had a very hard week. 2 vet visits in a week is enough to stress most kitties out. Even though we used drugs, Steve was all sorts of freaked out.
Drugs are wonderful. Benadryl is awesome for allergies and my ocular migranes. I have some with me always.
I really do wish I could still get Ketamine, I loved that stuff. It was so predictible, I could put some in gooshy food, see how much the kitty had eaten and know almost to the second when kitty was going to go to sleep. If I had some now, Steve would have a low grade buzz for the next couple of weeks. Asshole druggy humans sure fucked that up for a lot of critters and caretakers.
Buttercup is a wonderful dog, Lynn. Thanks again for suggesting a grayhound. You were totally right about how they are very well trained and super easy to handle. She is a Very Good Dog and we are glad that we took your advice.
We are not going to let Steve terrorize her. Steve will be just fine upstairs, we just have to remember to close the door for a couple of weeks. (Now that I’m thinking about it, I’m even more grumpy about fucking asshole druggies making it so I can’t have ketamine on hand.)
Back when I was thin I got the size up Levi 501 buttonflys, took in the waist and hemmed the legs to the right length. Solid, durable, pocketses
I rarely look for cute in clothes, I am not a cute sort of woman, thanks. I want comfortable, durable, practical clothing. Women’s cute crap is usually that, poorly made, cheap fabric, designed for one season so that you have to shop for all new clothes when the season shifts.
<snicker>
Another vote for Lees - they fit and there isn’t any size difference between the colors.
I wish Lees had a longer inseam; they are always too short for me. 
I got some Dickies jeans and work slacks from Amazon. They actually run a little large. Good prices, too!
erm… I have a couple of nighties. My mother wore them when she was pregnant with me. 40 years ago.
I get ones inside my ear canal. Bad very very bad.