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Path: ...!news.misty.com!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" <ahk@chinet.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Rant Men's Clothes Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 01:52:13 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 Message-ID: <v5qdod$a9eg$2@dont-email.me> References: <v5q4qi$512f$1@dont-email.me> <ki618jprruldsla46ktc8tra1712ggtpnq@4ax.com> Injection-Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 03:52:14 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5b56949fe50b0bcc71896964ee8ebd7e"; logging-data="337360"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+VAJB5tb02BA16/npHJD1tKWO7TdL9JPU=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:MY9r8+XUuzT4xW2q9sCQKNCpfrg= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 3009 shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote: >Sat, 29 Jun 2024 23:19:46 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>: >>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. >Part of the problem is so much comes from China. They both don't use >the same standard sizes that we do and may not even stick to the >standards that they do have. So if shoes are coming from China you >can't be sure which size is going to fit you. Which makes ordering >from Amazon an adventure in ordering, testing, sending it back and >ordering a larger size in the hopes of finding that Goldilocks pair of >shoes. >Normally I would use a 9 1/2 pair of shoes but now that will be too >tight. So either my feet have grown longer in the past few years or >the Chinese influence has take over so I now wear a size 10. 13 1/2 AA is my nominal shoe size. The pair that fit was a size 16. The label offered the shoe size in a number of countries. I've got big feet but I'm not a size 16.