Not being of the group that can boast a 26 inch (or lesser) waist, I can confidently claim that buying a pair of jeans is like looking for a needle in a hay stack, or discovering a long lost treasure (the common feature being lots of hard work and painstaking searching)!
So yes, it can be safely assumed that I’ve recently been on such an expedition, one that left me weak and drained and yet with a feeling of achievement at having managed to get a pair of jeans that fit me!
Those who are just the right size will never now what it is to walk into a shop and look around trying to gauge where the jeans that will fit you are stacked. Then you have to deal with the over-zealous shop assistant who wants to know what you’re looking for. “Uhmmm a pair of jeans?” Then he wants to know what size. Sigh. Reluctantly you tell him, even though you wish (with all your heart and fat cells) that you could tell him something at least 2 sizes less! So then he hmms and has and looks at his shelves and pulls out a couple of pairs in your size, and as you turn away towards the trial room he says “if you need anything bigger just tell me”. Hmph.
Trial Rooms. Its time to start praying. For a miracle pair of jeans perhaps. One that fits you no matter what size or shape, and makes you look thinner and taller and fitter. I did say it was a miracle pair. Actually if one is praying for a miracle, how about the disappearance of all the excess adipose tissues in your body?!
10 mins later you’re back at the shelves wanting to kill the assistant for not being able to provide you with what you wanted and having the audacity of looking stressed! What does he know?! He has the legs of a 16yr old girl (which was probably what was stressing him)!
So my point here was (yes, there is a point to this whole rambling) that finding a pair of jeans is all about the inches (too many of them if you ask me) and possessing the strength (mentally and physically) to trawl through dozens and dozens of pairs before finding the right one. The proverbial needle if you may.
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