Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rhino Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Rant Men's Clothes Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 20:29:24 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 74 Message-ID: <20240629202924.00002a1a@example.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 02:30:57 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ad913a28f0d6aa655883319d1a844ac3"; logging-data="185384"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+4QZIv/80Bd4ZK0DkMh981fhQabEVO5W0=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:xOtiBhIc9lm+I/71nL8CX+jBbOw= X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 240629-8, 6/29/2024), Outbound message X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.2.0 (GTK 3.24.41; x86_64-w64-mingw32) X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Bytes: 4560 On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 23:19:46 -0000 (UTC) "Adam H. Kerman" wrote: > I am going to rant. I went to a national department store to buy > button down shirts, which I really needed. A year ago, I'd bought > several shirts. They were driving me nuts because only one of the > shirts had a pocket. > > I went through all of the shirts for sale in my size. Not a single > shirt had a pocket. Who decreed that men's shirts no longer have > pockets? > Some "fashion" guru has apparently decreed that shirts with pockets are unfashionable and the manufacturers have apparently kowtowed to this dictat. I'd say I was surprised but I'm not. It's how they've rolled for years. I've been trying to find a plain T-shirt with a chest pocket for at least a couple of years but anytime I go to a store, there are none to be had. Mind you, I haven't checked every store or catalogue so maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places.... > Then the matter of shoes. I need another pair of gym shoes/running > shoes that fit. I wear them as my regular walking shoe. I have a > weird shoe size, very long and very narrow. > > We have the men's shoe comspiracy in which manufacturers inflate the > shoe size and ignore the shoe size standard. > > I saw a large number of shoes offered in my nominal size, so I knew it > was pointless to try them on. They'd be too small. > > I bought a pair that was nominally a half size larger. It was too > short. > > The pair I bought that was 2 1/2 sizes larger than my nominal shoe > size wasn't too short. > Shoes are another peeve for me. That started years ago when I tried to replace a pair of slippers that had worn out. I couldn't find a single pair in the mall store I visited and asked one of the staff about it. He told me they only carried slippers at Christmas time because that was the only time they sold (or maybe only sold in significant numbers). I still find that baffling because I used to wear them year round and wouldn't want to wait until Christmas to replace a worn-out pair. As for size, I finally found a good shoe store a few years back, the kind that actually measured your feet and made sure you got into shoes that fit; the places I'd been going to for many previous years were all basically self-serve places where you tried things on and settled for whatever you found satisfactory, then took it to the cashier to ring it up. So I bought two very good pairs of shoes at this newly-discovered store, dress shoes and a pair of sneakers. I paid more than I was used to but both were on the sale table at significant discounts so I could have done much worse. Both have been excellent shoes. I don't wear dress shoes often so those will probably last the rest of my life. I wear the sneakers all the time and expect they'll last a few more years yet. I think you need to find a shoe store that still measures your feet and where the staff still knows more about shoes than how to operate the cash register. I think those places are increasingly rare but I have to imagine a city as big as Chicago still has one or two. (Unfortunately, the one I found has since closed down because the owner retired.) > This is more evidence that the world has moved on from me and I > literally do not fit in. I should just walk to the horizon and fall > off the edge. That's probably a bit drastic ;-) Try finding different stores to buy shirts and shoes! -- Rhino