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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Rant Men's Clothes
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 01:49:37 -0000 (UTC)
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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.