Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Capricorne Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Rant Men's Clothes Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 03:53:41 -0400 Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <1789520896.741421147.509013.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Reply-To: capricorne@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ggDP7BV4ABwZ4pJcqiF46QcHT0tqkrh+QWMWvT/wrX3aNWKsOk Cancel-Lock: sha1:4agByObQXEZnGLKYqXTvGrPOvvM= sha256:/JBdXa/1njzm7RVEQ9BQHxC+iCjgqLMnqYKKpMZqPNs= X-Newsreader: MesNews/1.08.06.00 Bytes: 2437 anim8rfsk wrote : > Adam H. Kerman wrote: >> 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? >>> 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. >> >>> 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. >> >> I stopped by the store to return the pair of shoes and a pair of pants >> that didn't fit. I decided to look at shirts. >> >> Whoa. Pockets are back. I bought three shirts. >> > > You find any shirts with two pockets? In Sports stores.