Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Rant Men's Clothes Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 23:19:46 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: Injection-Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 01:19:47 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5b56949fe50b0bcc71896964ee8ebd7e"; logging-data="164943"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/LQKrzOPMa5ebgQ/G0W83s052Nogi2UE4=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:BRfElytYmtiR7FT5y/E6pYxfGsY= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 1931 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.