To me, when, say, a size 14 and a size 4 are hanging beside each other on a rack, the 4 looks noticibly shorter. Is there something else that accounts for this, or am I just shopping at weird places? :)
It's mostly the top part -- the amount of fabric comes up to the same level on a 3-dimensional person looks longer when it's flat. The outseam tends to be longer for the same reason.
I noticed that stores like that have kept the long/tall lengths, as well as the average, but had completely ditched the short lengths.
We should switch places. The ones around here generally have way more short lengths, at least when I happen to be looking.
My guess is they're misjudging their local markets, and we're both getting there behind the feeding frenzy. ;-)
I figured it had something to do with the fashion for wearing one's jeans two or three inches too long.
For a while there, I was figuring I was completely screwed when that finally goes out, because when it came in was the first time in my life I was finding pants long enough. And they have this weird chain reaction where, because the hem (which is at the normal place on me) is meant to be covering most of a 4-inch platform shoe, the place where the knees should be is about three inches above my actual knees. I have one pair with pseudo-military style details, including dinky little knee tucks, of which the bottom ones hit just above my knee. Fortunately, they're not very noticeable -- if they were like real BDU knee tucks, they'd look very silly!
Crossing my fingers that the brands actually bothering to do lengths for women's pants will continue to do so after the "drag your hems on the ground in heels" phase finally passes. Even five years ago, it was practically impossible to find.
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Re: Random observations (mostly clothing-related)
Date: 2006-08-08 04:55 pm (UTC)It's mostly the top part -- the amount of fabric comes up to the same level on a 3-dimensional person looks longer when it's flat. The outseam tends to be longer for the same reason.
I noticed that stores like that have kept the long/tall lengths, as well as the average, but had completely ditched the short lengths.
We should switch places. The ones around here generally have way more short lengths, at least when I happen to be looking.
My guess is they're misjudging their local markets, and we're both getting there behind the feeding frenzy. ;-)
I figured it had something to do with the fashion for wearing one's jeans two or three inches too long.
For a while there, I was figuring I was completely screwed when that finally goes out, because when it came in was the first time in my life I was finding pants long enough. And they have this weird chain reaction where, because the hem (which is at the normal place on me) is meant to be covering most of a 4-inch platform shoe, the place where the knees should be is about three inches above my actual knees. I have one pair with pseudo-military style details, including dinky little knee tucks, of which the bottom ones hit just above my knee. Fortunately, they're not very noticeable -- if they were like real BDU knee tucks, they'd look very silly!
Crossing my fingers that the brands actually bothering to do lengths for women's pants will continue to do so after the "drag your hems on the ground in heels" phase finally passes. Even five years ago, it was practically impossible to find.