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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 01:52:13 -0000 (UTC)
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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.