One Size Fits All
Posted by Will Shaver on 05 Mar 2009 at 05:45 pm | Tagged as: Life
First an excellent photo of a shirt that resists Satin. I’d probably rather have a Satan or even a Stain resisting shirt instead.
This weekend I’m attending a dance contest in Washington DC. I’m pumped to go and dance, then go and explore the city. Apparently the dance event has a purple theme on Saturday night so I spent some time in a mall looking for a purple shirt that fits me. Finding clothing that fits is always a challenge, but today it seemed especially so. I have the double whammy of being both 1) tall and 2) not fat. This generally causes me some problems when locating long sleeve shirts as I can either have shirts that fit my arms or fit my waist but not both.
To avoid this disaster I was trying on short sleeve shirts and was simply astounded by how rotund one must be to fit in an extra large shirt. I attempted to put on a “Large” shirt and it was too tight in the shoulders but I could easily have fit a rather full grocery bag up the shirt. The extra large was still a bit tight in the shoulders but had so much room in the belly even Santa would have been asking for a fitted version.
Also of note was the complete lack of other customers in the store. Isles of marked down items and no buyers. Not a good time to be in retail.
I have roughly the same problem in the medium-large range, although most mediums actually fit me pretty well aside from being slightly embarrassingly tight in the chest. Getting sleeves that fit my gooney-bird arms is another story.
Of course, this is from a guy who used to find shirts that weren’t XXL uncomfortably tight, so yeah, like, you know.
Great find for the photo. Hope the eventual choice was not too bad. My personal pet peeve, also being tallish, is that most shirts don’t leave enough tail to tuck into your trousers. Raise an arm, bend over to tie a shoe, and it is out of your pants. I think the Asian shirt makers figure we are all 5′10″ tall and weigh 250 lbs. Sigh……
If only fit specs were priortized as much as fashion. I would gladly take great fit and fabric any day. Go figure that I am in the retail industry,right?