The new Dress Blue Uniform
Since my supply sergeant could not get the next size of pants, I went to the clothing sales store and bought a pair. When I went to try them on, the sales clerk said "Army sizes run small."
Actually, the Army might be the last place with reality sizing. My Army dress pants are size 36, just like the pants of my older suits. The pants fight tightly in the winter and loosely in the summer.
But my Gap jeans are another story. Six years ago I bought a pair of Gap jeans. I tried on the 36 waist pair. I could take them off zipped up. The 34s fit. I bought them.
Last year I wanted to replace those jeans after rips that were beyond repair. I picked up a 34 waist pair. When I tried them on it was like the 36s five years before. So bought 32s.
I have not shrunk. But most retailers are flattering their customers with waist sizes disconnected from reality. The Army is in pants reality.
This is not good news as I've advocated that women's clothes be sized by actual inches "just like mens". Good grief are men as vain as women? Please, just give me clothes where the size number is my actual measurement. Makes it so much easier.
ReplyDeleteRozy Lass--Vanity knows no gender!!! You'll have to join the Army for truth in sizing--or have your clothes custom made. Those are the places that tell you the truth. For the rest, it's BS.
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