Cary’s little helper…
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Want to hear something hilarious? It’s the same for pet clothes. I was shopping for little dog T-shirts for my cat on Amazon, and many of the sellers are in Asia; you have to measure your pet and compare to the chart. But at least they don’t have different sizing by gender and my cat doesn’t need pockets.
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That’s just weird, doesn’t Asia have as large a variety of dog sizes as … anywhere else?
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Etsy has some cute pocket belts, I’ve been shopping around for one. I still want the perfect fitting and exactly what I was looking for one that I found at a street market when I had no cash. Basically one that looks like a layering micro miniskirt bristling with pockets and loops to hang stuff from. And does not hug or sit on my belly in an unflattering way.
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Not sure; I didn’t really look at any clothes for bigger dogs, though now I’m curious. I don’t even know what the sizes would be, if I had to get a medium for my 11-pound cat! But there were many comments from people who seemed to be very familiar with sizing for pet clothes and warned that the Asian sizing ran small.
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I’ve noticed that asian sizes, at least online, scale very slowly, so the good side is that it’s impossible to fall in between sizes, the jump is too small. The bad side is that sometimes a 3x still doesn’t fit a us/uk large. They seem really random. Whatever small is they add 2 or 3 cm for every size until they get bored and call it quits. By that point it could be any size.
I have stuff ranging from 1x to 3x and stuff I’ve passed over because 3x was still listed as way too small. I’m a us 12/ uk 14 for the most part.
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I don’t. Some of mine have a wee gray area near the heel.
I always wear cotton tube socks because they’re comfortable, and I nearly always wear sneakers, generally some form of New Balance walking shoe like this:
I do own a pair of dress shoes, a pair or two of hiking boots, and a 25-year-old pair of black cowboy boots that I imagine might not fit anymore, but I wear those New Balance sneakers around 350 days out of the year. And typically with cotton tube socks. Ever since I was a kid I haven’t enjoyed going barefoot. I was a total tenderfoot as a kid, and I find that going barefoot, or even wearing sandals or socks in open-toed shoes, the skin on my feet dries out and splits. I need the humidity of feet-in-shoes to keep my skin from cracking. I could moisturize, I suppose, but it still requires me lotioning up several times a day to avoid the painful cracking. So I just wear shoes-n-sox all the livelong day, and my feet seem happiest.
I do recommend swapping into a fresh pair of sox and shoes at lunchtime, on particularly long days (like when I used to work 14-16 hours a day on-set).
But anyway, dress socks I find hideously uncomfortable. Other sox (like argyles or other woolens) I find too itchy.
So… uh… what do you prefer to wear on your pale, British tootsies?
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Style? What did style ever have to do with cargo shorts? That’s like saying pliers have gone out of style.
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I absolutely believe you.
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My socks have pockets in them, but only until I put them on.
They need to be boot-length. I dislike the typical crew size which only goes to the bottom of the calf. And cotton is too squishy feeing for me. I prefer wool, or a wool-silk tweed blend. The moisture management is way better than cotton. My toe socks are mostly silk, they rock.
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Yep, all the pockets in the exterior of my suits jackets are sewn shut, and i don’t open them to keep the lines.
I think this is common knowledge, but i am not so sure because i have seen dressing-aware people use them.
I use internal pockets though, and the pocket of my pants.
Anyway i feel for whose are forced or pushed to use impractical dresses.
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True, in non-contemporary english usage, a purse is just a drawstring bag people would keep money in. Some idiomatic usage still survives in phrases such as ‘the power of the purse’ or ‘holding the pursestrings.’ I don’t know enough of the linguistic history to tell you how it became the bag women carried, however.
@dragonfrog is welcome to reclaim the word without a silly gender prefix.
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Not quite what you’re asking for, but:
http://www.kniterate.com/
I have a big butt and my mother made me buy baggy jeans over my size until my fifteens when I put an end to it. Nowadays I buy brands that have front pockets because it lessens the chance of being pickpocketed if you drop the cellphone into the front pockets, but when I have to buy guy’s clothes I take them to a seamstress and fit it there. Works wonders for putting a waistline in shirts or male trousers.
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I open and use the external pockets, lines be damned. Wallet, phone, keys, tissues, but, business cards, pens, tiny writing pad. I try to avoid carrying my briefcase unless I need my laptop. Which is odd now that I think about it, since the rest of the time I avoid cargo shorts and carry a messenger bag (all of my jeans otherwise quickly get stretch/fade marks on the pockets from my wallet and phone).
But yeah - the pocket situation for women’s clothing is ridiculous. Even in winter coats, where it can’t really be a “lines” thing. I have like six pockets with zippers on them, and when my wife and I go somewhere outside I can carry two water bottles, sunglasses, both of our wallets and keys, and my gloves and hat, and my wife is lucky to fit her phone and a place that keeps her hands warm.
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I really kind of want to invest in one of these: http://www.scottevest.com/v3_store/Womens-Trench.shtml. They’re not any more expensive than a North Face jacket.
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Needs to be red colored so you can pretend to be Carmen San Diego
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That exactly describes what my purse is like. It is contemporary, holds coins, and isn’t gendered. It used to contain my ex’s gaming dice!
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Not surprising. A couple of my old friends would use the Crown Royal bags for their dice.
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