Path: ...!news.mixmin.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: Re: Rant Men's Clothes Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 01:49:37 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 03:49:37 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5b56949fe50b0bcc71896964ee8ebd7e"; logging-data="337360"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19fNENsl3BT46LZmBEIVnJArJ1yOOeWdnU=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:yWTsYHdoZVgU/M1pLJiQmrMa5Lc= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 2169 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.