What a Puzzle
Purchasing clothing used to be so easy. Several catalogs came in the mail from Sears, Montgomery Wards, Spiegel’s and Alden’s. Surprisingly the sizes that were available were uniform and consistent from one location to the next. Not so today.
An example would be jeans for Dennis. Levi’s 509 jeans that we bought instore at JC Penny’s quite a few years ago are getting to the point that there should be a replacement pair. He loves those jeans. The replacements came in the mail today.
Same model number. Same size. The first thing Dennis said, “These jeans have been worn!” The hem on the legs had frayed threads as well as on the back pockets. It was difficult to explain that the appeal of ready-to-wear clothes has listened to the populist. He can be thankful that there were no holes in the knees of his brand new jeans. Length of 30″ was in place on the inseams of his old pair. Hello . . . I need to shorten the brand new pair. It is “in” to have pant legs drag over the shoe heel. Dennis was thrilled that by me shortening them, the frayed edges would be gone. The right of ownership is in allowing Dennis to make his own frays. No . . . 28″ jeans were not offered.
I will get on this soon. I do need to get downstairs to the sewing studio . . . dust off the sewing machine and try. The last months of working through the challenges of the stroke is only one small chapter of my book.
This was another cold morning with some white frost. After lunch, Dennis pumped up the Roundup sprayer and took care of the greenery that had no problem showing up in the cracks of the patio and drive. Take that!