Just when you think you have nothing to write about, this happens
Yesterday a friend and I were discussing what a pain in the ass it is to buy new clothes, mentioning jeans as one of the most difficult items to purchase. I was thinking about how I only have three pairs of jeans, but that’s enough because I only really wear one of them anyway. My favorite pair. The perfect jeans for me. Great fit, great wash, and they make my butt look pretty good too.
About a year ago a coworker and I sort of implemented a Jeans Friday in our department. We didn’t ask permission or try to start a trend; we just started wearing jeans every Friday because we wanted to. As today is yet another Friday, I of course pulled on my favorite jeans this morning, per usual. I finished my morning routine, drove to work, walked all through the halls of the building. And once I was safely inside my office, I quickly shoved my hand down the back of my pants to adjust a severe wedgie. Come on, you know you do these things too when you’re alone.
Except, hmm, something was wrong. Why are my fingers sticking out through the back of my jeans? You see where this is going.
I had a huge hole in the ass of my pants. My favorite jeans! I suppose that’s what I get for wearing them almost every day for the last two years. But there I am at work, standing in my office, hand down my pants, and a giant hole in my jeans. Fifteen minutes after I arrived, I left work to go change, awkwardly tugging my coat down to cover the peep show of my pale yellow underwear.
Now I’m wearing a much less loved pair of jeans and dreading the search for a replacement perfect pair. Because those babies sure aren’t patchable.*
*Which reminds me of another embarrassing story about holey clothes at work. I’ll save that for another time.
March 23rd, 2007 at 11:04 am
eep! that so happened to me last weekend. I was out and about, doing this and that, brunching and shopping for shelving, wearing my favourite comfy jeans and at one point when I was home, I realized (and I may have been wedgie adjusting but I’m not admitting to anything like that) that I was sporting a hole.
Face burning as I remembered everywhere I had been.
Good jeans are hard to find. I am now in search mode … sigh.
March 23rd, 2007 at 1:56 pm
OMG, I’m laughing so hard at the visual.
I know, it isn’t funny when your favorite jeans take a shit (or you can’t fit into them anymore without ripping a hole in them *clears throat*). I’m down to one pair that fits comfortably. I hope and pray they don’t die out on me.
It’s funny. I was just talking to Cheyanna’s mom (ran into her at the tanning place) and somehow we got to talking about shopping and buying clothes. She’s a tall gal (probably almost 6 foot) and she was saying how she loves to buy her jeans at The Buckle. She went on about how expensive they are. But she made a good point that I couldn’t argue. She says that they are guaranteed for life. I didn’t find that on their website but that’s not to say that it isn’t true. They also do FREE alterations. One can find something to fit their booty and have them adjusted to the right length.
Does this really justify the cost? I don’t know. Maybe if you can find the right pair on sale.
Levi’s are also guaranteed. I know my brother-in-law wears them and my sister has sent a few pair back that have had holes worn in the knees. They sent her a brand new pair as a replacement.
If I hadn’t gone on my shopping spree already or I wasn’t going to be gone on vaca, I’d volunteer to go shopping with you.
March 23rd, 2007 at 4:58 pm
I am loyal to Silver jeans. Sometimes I buy them at Buckle, but they’re also available at Maurices, Vanity, Dillards, etc etc. I love them because they aren’t stretchy or thin as most jeans seem to be nowadays. They’re legitimate demin, which we all know real demin lasts longer.
Silvers used to all be SUPER low rise (and most still are) but they just came out with a new style called “Suki” that are a perfect rise, not too low that your thong will show and not too high that you feel like a grandma. And they don’t do that whole “faux penis curve” at the zipper — you know what I mean! They have them in 3 washes. They’re around $68 and soooo worth it!!!
March 23rd, 2007 at 5:14 pm
I love it! LOVE that you walked from your car to your building, and down the hallway to your office with your ass hanging out! That’s a great story!
Isn’t it funny how people never like to point things out like that to you? Seriously…if my butt is hanging out of my pants..its probably not on purpose, just say something already!
Good luck on the jeans shopping though, it always works out that you can’t actually find anything good when you’re looking for it specifically!
March 23rd, 2007 at 5:15 pm
oh..and can you take a picture with the jeans on? I really need to see how large this hole is!
March 25th, 2007 at 10:20 am
The Friday jeans things is a slippery slope! I work in a very informal office, and I hired a guy in the Fall who wore a suit on his first day. I explained about “business casual”, which I define as “normal-pants- 4-days-a-week and polished-looking-jeans-on-Fridays”. After a few months, his “business casual” skewed increasingly towards the casual–he was wearing jeans on most days and even getting into T-shirts. It was SO weird, but I finally had to talk to him about it.
But I digress. I find that the Gap Long and Lean Jeans are utter delight.
March 26th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
I’m commenting to retract the comment about Buckle jeans having a lifetime guarantee. They do not. I emailed and asked.
March 26th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Ahhhh, you poor thing!
I hear ya about the jeans thing, though. I have the hardest time finding ones I like. And I’m in between sizes right now so I don’t want to spend money on news ones in the “larger” size, especially when I already have some cute ones in the smaller size.
April 24th, 2007 at 9:23 am
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