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January 24, 2005
What is up with Size 0?
This morning, I was looking for a pair of slacks to wear to my big important meeting. Well, since I've lost a little weight in the last year, I had to try on several different pairs of pants. It struck me as odd that it took me so long to find a decent pair of pants to wear to work. I mean... depending on the brand of the pants, my sizes range anywhere within three different pant sizes... And, don't even get me started on the length issue.
Anyhow, after a little bit of looking around on the internet this morning, it's pretty clear that each brand of women's clothing manufacturers has their own measurement for each size. I've also noticed that the more expensive the clothing, the more generously cut the sizes. This leads me to my point... why the hell should women ever wear a size 0? That just doesn't make any sense. A size 0 means that it doesn't exist in my opinion... its value is 0, zip, nada, niente.
So, why are women's clothes subjected to this arbitrary sizing standard when men can just go to a rack, pick a pair of pants by their waist and inseam measurements and be out on their merry way? If I could have just looked through my closet and said... Ah, a 29" 34".... that would have been so much faster.
So, I still think this is a conspiracy to keep the women-folk down. They are keepin' us down with meaningless sizes that don't correspond to anything in the real world.... I'm pretty sure that if men can measure their waist and inseam that women would be able to handle it as well... so, let's just do that from now on, Okay? Thanks....
Posted by trina at January 24, 2005 03:44 PM
Comments
I guess the grass is brown on both sides? On one side its difficult to find yer size.. on the other side is the crazy set of women who don't like being reminded about their waist size ... and they would do more than enough of their share of complaining.
I think for the sanity of anyone not involved we like things how they are. ;) :-D
(please don't kill me) (i'm just kidding) :-D
Posted by: adam at January 25, 2005 12:11 PM
Yay.. its cool being a guy. Everyone should try it atleast once.
Posted by: Chris Knight at January 25, 2005 01:06 PM
Awwww... hell... screw it... I'm just going to buy men's pants
Posted by: trina at January 26, 2005 01:37 PM