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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Rant Men's Clothes
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 23:19:46 -0000 (UTC)
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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.