Comments on: Jeans shopping getting scarier every year

By: Cooper

Cooper — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:32:25 +0000

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By: Cooper

Cooper — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:18:54 +0000

Read this, thought of you:

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Cooper

By: Gillian

Gillian — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:45:29 +0000

@Garth I’m not sure I’d be willing to spend so much money to get a tailor to completely de- and reconstruct a pair of pants. Kelowna’s expensive for services, too: just hemming jeans is $15+.

By: Garth

Garth — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:27:27 +0000

I recently experimented in having jeans altered, and was amazed at the outcome. I figured the tailor would butcher them, but he basically took the jeans apart piece by piece, cut out the extra material, and reassembled them. There no visible indication that they were altered. I highly recommend you find a good tailor to fix them up.

By: Gillian

Gillian — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:33:01 +0000

@Derek Sure, you can alter clothing, but we’re talking about having to take in a waist by several sizes, which is getting kind of ridiculous; the butt portion is going to wrap around the sides.

By: Derek K. Miller

Derek K. Miller — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:57:41 +0000

I also tend to wear out the crotch of jeans first, for whatever reason.

But keep in mind that YOU CAN GET CLOTHES ALTERED. If you find a pair of jeans (or pants, or a shirt, or whatever) that fits well in most respects, but is, for instance, too large around the waist, then one of those in-mall tailors will happily take the waist in for you to give you your own custom well-fitting jeans.

By: Jeremy B

Jeremy B — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:34:54 +0000

I thought I was the only one that consistently developed holes in the crotch area of my jeans. I always figured it was cause I was “big” down there until my girlfriend assured me that was not the case. I do admit that simply cause there is extra ventilation down there doesn’t mean that the jeans are not to be worn. I thought it would be an interesting conversation piece and a way to pick up girls at bars. Not true. Doesn’t work.

Fortunately I am a guy and so as long as I match those numbers on the buttocks of my old jeans with the new pair of jeans and then I have a new pair of perfectly fitting jeans.

Jeans need flys. Without flys how are you supposed to scratch that itch? And you know you are going to get an itch–especially if you cannot scratch it.

By: donna

donna — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:27:29 +0000

as a fellow odd shaper: god, I understand.

I get holes in the crotch, on the left side. wtf? WHY?

I’ve started reparing them, because buying new ones is too horrible to contemplate. (Although I have surprisingly good luck with levis.) Luckily, my rips are in embarassing, but hard to see places, so my terrible repair jobs are fairly hidden.

By: Gillian

Gillian — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:58:15 +0000

@melanie Well, they must fit somebody?

By: melanie

melanie — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:23:29 +0000

I don’t think it is because we women are shaped weird. I think it is because jeans are shaped weird and they’re getting weirder shaped every year. I know because I never used to have problems finding jeans that fit well, until about the last 3-4 years.