Society wants me fatter, well, maybe not society, but commerce does.

[hypernova]

So I go out today to purchase a new wardrobe for myself.  I have a few articles of clothing that show some class, and I like them.  I got tired of my jeans and t-shirts, and wanted to try something else.  Well, notsomuch my t-shirts, a few of them are just too good.  (My "To save time, let's just assume I know everything" shirt is just too sweet to ever give up.)  My jeans, however, are screaming to be let go, what with their large holes and whatnot.

Anyway, I'm a skinny guy, about 6'2", 155 lbs.  That makes me a 32x36.  At least, that's what most of my jeans are.  That's a 32 waist, 36 length.  The pair I have on now are 31x34 (and currently sports a hole approximately 4" in diameter directly on the right knee, as well as another 2.5" hole right above it, among other numerous imperfections.  I wore it in Red Lobster! )  Finding those jeans reasonably priced (Wrangler's, Levi's, Steve and Barry's) are fairly easy.  Not overly, but it's not difficult either.

Day started out with me finding plenty of 36x32 in the first store.  I'm feeling pretty content.  I go to try them on, but they're far too big in the waist, and thus you see the problem if you didn't notice it before.  The numbers are backwards (I hadn't realized I needed the opposite at the time yet.)  So let's try that again.

Finding the opposite sizes in Docker's/Khakis is impossible.  Literally.  Found a chart showing a particular brand's available combinations.  The longest a 32W goes is a 34L.  Okay, so that's fine, I guess.  I'm betting that these come out to be a little longer than jeans anyways.  And they do.  I found a few.

A FEW.  It was slim-pickings (pun completely intended) finding even a 32x34.  I went to:  JCP, Sears, Kohl's, Macy's, Dillard's.  I checked a few of those teen-geared stores, but they carry only jeans.

I found a few curdoroy pants, and decided I'd like one.  I went through at least 150-200 pairs in all the stores, not finding a single pair that was 32x34.  Closest I found that could theoretically fit was 34x34, and there may have only been a scarce few of those, if not just that one, because even that was hard to locate.  I found some other pants that were 32x34, but there were only 3 or 4 (in all the stores, again, mind you,) and I didn't much care for them.  I did end up with one pair purchased.

I'll check the online equivalents of these stores, as surely, they'll have the size I need.  That, or apparently I'll need to put on about 15 pounds.

On a positive note, I found plenty of shirts I liked, that fit to boot!

[shardian]

Old navy 32x36 list

Great prices, great jeans, great shipping, great return policy. What more can you ask for?

[DrewKaree]

Old navy 32x36 list

Great prices, great jeans, great shipping, great return policy. What more can you ask for?

For it not to be from Old Navy

[NIVO]

old gravy sucks. "Tell 'em Ray..." "Yea,Kmart sucks, definitely sucks."

[shmokes]

I love American Eagle jeans, largely because I have a hard time finding jeans that fit me cos I'm too short and skinny (5'6", 135 lbs.)

Anyway, they carry 32x36 in all their styles, which are generally quite a bit cooler than Old Navy's.  They've got quite a few that don't fit your bill, cos they have fake, built-in worn spots and so on, but they have plenty of classy looking jeans as well.

They also carry some Khakis and Cargo pants in 32x36 if that's your poison.

Their prices probably average about $10 more than Old Navy, but they have a better selection, IMO, and they always have a well-stocked clearance section too.

www.ae.com

[ChadTower]

I liked it better when I could wear jeans to work. 

[shmokes]

Jeans are a direct violation of the dress code at my work and I wear them almost exclusively.  Nobody else can get away with it, but everyone just turns a blind eye to what I do cos being the computer guy gives me something akin to godlike status.  Other computer guys on the board will probably have some idea what I'm talking about, especially if they have worked in a situation like me where it's a relatively large organization, but just small enough to have a one-man IT department.  We only have about 90 or so employees. 

Other employees have bitched about it on a number of occassions, but nothing has ever come of it and since I'm leaving in just a few months anyway, at this point even if they explicitly told me I had to stop wearing jeans to work I would explicitly tell them that wasn't going to happen.  But they wouldn't do that anyway.  They love me.

[ChadTower]

That's small company culture for you.  Here in large corporate HR driven hell, even the best most effective employee would be fired for repeatedly violating the dress code in the face of a few warnings.  Common sense hath no foothold here.

[shardian]

I work for a small company and get to wear jeans to work. I can also wear shorts to work in the summer occasionally...as long as I can put up with the teasing.

One of the downsides about working for a small company is if they find out you know how to do something, you usually end up with an extra responsibility - like computer troubleshooting. Too bad I don't get paid a consulting fee. 

[ChadTower]

In the big company, you end up with that responsibility if you just touch something no one else wants to do.  You don't have to know a damn thing about it.

[shardian]

I'm just glad we have a person who cleans the toilets...me being the newbie and all.

[shmokes]

Heh . . . I don't know.  I pretty frequently think that cleaning toilets might be a step up from comptuter troubleshooting. 

[ChadTower]

You'd see a lot less unexplained poo cleaning toilets.

[shardian]

You obviously don't know the bathroom behemoths I work with or you wouldn't say that.

I went to use the bathroom earlier and after opening the door, I ran into "the wall".