Where are all the big-people clothes?
"Now, I dont want to get off on a rant here, but..."
~ Dennis Miller
Okay, seriously, I dont want to rant here, but I gotta get something off my chest... allow me to set it up for you...
Today at noon I strolled to a downtown mall near my office, and decided to check out some Boxing Day/Week sales at some of the clothes stores. So I stroll through The Gap, The Bay, Eddie Bauer, Tip Top Tailors, American Eagle and a couple of random skater inspired stores... and in each and every single one of those stores, I found myself asking the same question over and over...
"Where the hell are all the big-people clothes?"
Now, I stand about 6'3", so I am a little taller than your average joe, but the thing about me is that I have a little longer than average arms... and while that serves me very well on the basketball court and football field, it does nothing but piss me off as I curse another ill-fitting V-neck sweater in the little square taupe prison cell that is a Gap "fitting room".
Let me just cut you off before you think to yourself that I am some wannabe hip-hopper that wants t-shirts that hang down to my knees and long medallions with bling upon bling... that aint me...
I'm just a tall guy who wants to find clothes that fit...
(Jeezus... does that sound as gay as it looks? I hope not...)
Everytime I am in the Gap or Old Navy (which actually has the best fitting clothes, for me personally, of all the aforementioned offenders) I want to punch the nearest smug-looking, head-set wearing lackey, as I have to sift through the piles of XS, S and M shirts to get to the bottom of the pile for an XL or XXL.
XS? Who the hell wears EXTRA small? What, small isnt good enough for you? If you need extra-small, then hit the kids department for a size 6X...
Oh yeah, and you see how I wrote XL or XXL there? Well, again let me stop you before you start thinking that I am some portly fella who has to make a choice on whether to wear my pants above or below my belly... again, that aint me... I'm not say that I wont have to one day make that choice, I'm just saying that today... that aint me...
The reason I need to buy XL or XXL is because those are the only sizes with arms long enough for me to wear... and let's just say that I am never too impressed when I try on a shirt with arms that are long enough but the neck is so friggin huge that it looks like I could fit my waist through it, or that the shoulder seams are halfway down my bicep...
that, my friends... is NOT good times...
One solution would be for me to only wear short-sleeved shirts... yeah, I guess so... but have any of you experienced a Canadian Prairie winter? Also, the only one who could really pull off the short sleeved dress shirt was Detective Andy Sipowicz... so I think I'll leave that to him...
Oh yeah, and another would be that I could always shop at a "Big and Tall" store... but as I have said, I am not so much Big as I am Tall, so some of that stuff doesnt work for me anyway... and besides, the selection and styles offered there arent what I would call vast.
Anyway, my question is, is there not one single solitary person of my size and stature that works at the Gap/Old Navy/American Eagle/Eddie Bauer/etc headquarters or mothership or whatever its called?
Who knows, maybe a requirement to work in such a place is that you have to be 5'9" or under and have a 30in waist...
Why dont these places make clothes for taller guys with average athletic builds (and long arms)? Or, as I have said before... Why dont these places make big-people clothes?
I guess they have to draw the line somewhere, and instead of introducing a few more sizes into their arsenal (ones that say LT = Large Tall), they decided to just go cookie cutter on us and standardize things across the store.
Bastards... I guess I'm screwed...
Ah well, I guess I'll use this little corner of cyberspace to vent about it, and extend a "One Finger Salute" to all those who decide that the Gap, etc wont have sizes that fit big people...
There you have it...
... and sorry for the rant...
~ Dennis Miller
Okay, seriously, I dont want to rant here, but I gotta get something off my chest... allow me to set it up for you...
Today at noon I strolled to a downtown mall near my office, and decided to check out some Boxing Day/Week sales at some of the clothes stores. So I stroll through The Gap, The Bay, Eddie Bauer, Tip Top Tailors, American Eagle and a couple of random skater inspired stores... and in each and every single one of those stores, I found myself asking the same question over and over...
"Where the hell are all the big-people clothes?"
Now, I stand about 6'3", so I am a little taller than your average joe, but the thing about me is that I have a little longer than average arms... and while that serves me very well on the basketball court and football field, it does nothing but piss me off as I curse another ill-fitting V-neck sweater in the little square taupe prison cell that is a Gap "fitting room".
Let me just cut you off before you think to yourself that I am some wannabe hip-hopper that wants t-shirts that hang down to my knees and long medallions with bling upon bling... that aint me...
I'm just a tall guy who wants to find clothes that fit...
(Jeezus... does that sound as gay as it looks? I hope not...)
Everytime I am in the Gap or Old Navy (which actually has the best fitting clothes, for me personally, of all the aforementioned offenders) I want to punch the nearest smug-looking, head-set wearing lackey, as I have to sift through the piles of XS, S and M shirts to get to the bottom of the pile for an XL or XXL.
XS? Who the hell wears EXTRA small? What, small isnt good enough for you? If you need extra-small, then hit the kids department for a size 6X...
Oh yeah, and you see how I wrote XL or XXL there? Well, again let me stop you before you start thinking that I am some portly fella who has to make a choice on whether to wear my pants above or below my belly... again, that aint me... I'm not say that I wont have to one day make that choice, I'm just saying that today... that aint me...
The reason I need to buy XL or XXL is because those are the only sizes with arms long enough for me to wear... and let's just say that I am never too impressed when I try on a shirt with arms that are long enough but the neck is so friggin huge that it looks like I could fit my waist through it, or that the shoulder seams are halfway down my bicep...
that, my friends... is NOT good times...
One solution would be for me to only wear short-sleeved shirts... yeah, I guess so... but have any of you experienced a Canadian Prairie winter? Also, the only one who could really pull off the short sleeved dress shirt was Detective Andy Sipowicz... so I think I'll leave that to him...
Oh yeah, and another would be that I could always shop at a "Big and Tall" store... but as I have said, I am not so much Big as I am Tall, so some of that stuff doesnt work for me anyway... and besides, the selection and styles offered there arent what I would call vast.
Anyway, my question is, is there not one single solitary person of my size and stature that works at the Gap/Old Navy/American Eagle/Eddie Bauer/etc headquarters or mothership or whatever its called?
Who knows, maybe a requirement to work in such a place is that you have to be 5'9" or under and have a 30in waist...
Why dont these places make clothes for taller guys with average athletic builds (and long arms)? Or, as I have said before... Why dont these places make big-people clothes?
I guess they have to draw the line somewhere, and instead of introducing a few more sizes into their arsenal (ones that say LT = Large Tall), they decided to just go cookie cutter on us and standardize things across the store.
Bastards... I guess I'm screwed...
Ah well, I guess I'll use this little corner of cyberspace to vent about it, and extend a "One Finger Salute" to all those who decide that the Gap, etc wont have sizes that fit big people...
There you have it...
... and sorry for the rant...
Labels: rants
posted by The Captain at 12/29/2005 12:30:00 PM
1 Comments:
dude, you have to order online. my boyfriend is 6'6" and 250 lb, and most of the big sellers have a 'tall' section online. sadly, they refuse to bother carrying them in the store anymore. gap.com has a lot of sizes, for example, and even has sales. we've reached the point where we don't go into a store much. the only store that i've seen carrying tall stuff in stock is Kohls', which has dockers and jeans and shirts in larger sizes in-store.
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