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From: Capricorne <capricorne@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Rant Men's Clothes
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 03:53:41 -0400
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anim8rfsk wrote :
> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> 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.