KurtNYC (13,386 posts)
Levi's pulled my pants down !
I am now ready for a career in plumbing or fixing TVs because Levi's decided to change the cut of their 505 jeans without telling anyone.
I guess I am guilty of "shopping like a man" because at least on some items, I just buy the same thing I got last time. So as one pair of 505s wore out, I went online (because I live in a town with no remaining brick-and-mortar shopping options) and bought another pair. Brand new. Pre-wash, ready to go. The same thing as last time, I thought.
I tried them on and felt a little draft. Pulled them up because they felt low. Took two steps and out comes the moon again.
Levi seemed to have no trouble giving new numbers to new models of jeans but now they just swapped out the old cut for this new cut. I'm in my 5th decade of this lifetime so I have a few questions for the young, in-shape and hip:
- will I ever get over the urge to constantly pull these up higher?
- would it be okay to wear these with suspenders, perhaps like the ones Robin Williams had for Mork?
- am I supposed to buy a thong now ?
pscot (16,494 posts)
1. Could it be
that you've grown just a skosh broader in the hip and thigh?
Hoyt (15,325 posts)
4. I've had same issue with 505s recently. If I pull em up, I get groin strangulation. Butt crack it is
marzipanni (5,441 posts)
5. Is the zipper the same length as the zipper on an old pair?
I have to laugh at the 1 1/2- 2" zippers on super-low-cut "fashionable" jeans.
Or the other end of the spectrum, zippers on old man suit pants are about 12" long so they can hitch their pants up above the navel with a belt or suspenders if they are skinny. Wearing the pants low, below a belly, means they have to slant up toward the lower back which defies gravity.
If Levi's doesn't comply with the petition and make them with the old cut again... if you wear size large shirts buy large-long, for tall or long torso'd men, or in the winter, anyway,
you could try a lower back warmer belly band- (for men & women)
http://global.rakuten.com/en/category/underwear/mens/belly_bands/
If Levi's doesn't comply with the petition and make them with the old cut again
There is a fix for "Plumber's Crack"....
Uh-huh.At 6' 4" it's hard to find those long tail shirts and coats. ....and nothing freezes you than having the small of your back exposed to the cold.
Shirts with long tails have saved this rear from being exposed more times than I dare count.
At 6' 4" it's hard to find those long tail shirts and coats. ....and nothing freezes you than having the small of your back exposed to the cold.
DUmmie KurtNYC states he's into is 5th decade, so his problem is obvious.When your measurements are 36 54 36 it's time for "spenders".
It' not the pants, it's him. He's suffering from a old man's condition known as "Goneass".
He no longer has enough ass to hold his pants up. :lmao:
Frank, I get the tall sizes but they aren't common to WAL-MART and the cheap stores.
When your measurements are 36 54 36 it's time for "spenders".
Frank, I get the tall sizes but they aren't common to WAL-MART and the cheap stores. ....or that's what the wife tells me. I let her buy my clothes because she won't approve of anything I buy. :-)
Use Amazon. Men's Big & Tall section.
Well, yeah, one can do that, but that's mail-order.
Life's much easier when one can just walk into a store and pull something off the racks.
Well, yeah, one can do that, but that's mail-order.
Life's much easier when one can just walk into a store and pull something off the racks.
I've looked at the big and tall section at K Mart and Walmart, (not that I need it, I'm only 5-9), but their selections are mostly big and not for the tall.
Damn, for a second there I thought one of them had a job.
there comes a time in every man's life when it's best to forgo the complexity of belts and suspenders and embrace the subtle simplicity of elastic and sweatpants.
The free market, in its wisdom, apparently discerned that most men in your area are big-waisted but altitudinally-challenged.
Just from casual cursory observation, does that seem true to you, about men there?
DUmmie KurtNYC states he's into is 5th decade, so his problem is obvious.
It' not the pants, it's him. He's suffering from a old man's condition known as "Goneass".
He no longer has enough ass to hold his pants up. :lmao:
At 6' 4" it's hard to find those long tail shirts and coats. ....and nothing freezes you than having the small of your back exposed to the cold.