The Perils of Being a Female Shopper
Men have it a lot easier when it comes to clothing. They can wear a dress shirt to work, a wedding, a club or even to the park. Women cannot get away with this. Social norms dictate that we don different attire in all these situations.
In fact, if men wore the exact same clothes to every wedding they ever went to, nobody would be any the wiser. Unfortunately women are expected to wear a different outfit to each wedding. For women who love to shop I suppose this is not as much of a problem as it is a blessing.
Perhaps some men think we are lucky that we have so many styles of pants to choose from. I’d like to tell those men that choice is a myth. In the past few months, every single clothing store I’ve been to has only sold jeggings or skinny jeans. I dislike both and will have to wait until fashionable people decide that it’s time for trends to change before I can procure a pair of paints I like.
And then there are sizes. My size varies from an extra small to large, depending on the store. I’m sure the closest any man has ever come to this problem is finding out that a large pizza at Pizza Hut is a smidgen smaller than at Dominoes.
And don’t get me started on pockets. Most clothing for men comes with pockets. Women on the other hand usually have to choose between having no pockets, or decorative pockets that are not actually functional. Why do clothing manufacturers presume that we have nothing to carry?
Gentlemen, the next time you complain that women take so long to shop, remember that it’s because you have it so much easier than we do.
Reblogged this on Rosie Toast and commented:
There is nothing more frustrating than having to guess what size you’ll be at different stores. It’s always a toss up! What’s up with that?
Never had the problem with nonon-functional pockets on my trousers.
But I can totally agree on the size problem. I knew that sizes like S differ from store to store (and occasionally different lines in the same store use a bit different sizes). But there was something more annoying than that even though I first of all was extremely gald to have found a couple of jeans that weren’t skinny jeans and all sizes were in inch. So precisely measured I thought. When I tried the jeans on it turned out that I didn’t fit in any and even more annyoing I wore a jeans from the very same store with the very same inch sizes. So apparently the inch changed.
Kudos to you on finding a pair of non-skinny jeans. I really hope none of my pants rip before regular pants come back in fashion.
that was in a branch of the Swedish store chain with the two red letters. The only problem of course being that they seem to have more than one definition of an inch.
We could take over the world if we weren’t so busy grooming…
This is a very revealing post for me. I always thought that a woman’s need to shop for clothes was tantamount to their need to breathe. You are saying it is not! Hmmm. The sizing – I agree. Incredibly arbitrary. Size 4? 4 what? Inches, millimeters, litres? I wear a 42 Regular jacket. That number means something. I am not sure what, but I know it is an actual measurement of part of the jacket. In fact, I can’t believe I don’t know what part. Anyway, 34 waist, 36 length. Those are inches and they mean something. Obviously, I am a very fit man, but that isn’t the point. Point is, I thought the randomness of womens sizing was intentional. Some sort of way for them to flaunt their intuition. In fact, I still think that.
Perhaps it’s a way to keep us in the store longer? I generally open out folded clothing and stare at it to figure out my size, and even then I might have to take 2 sizes to the fitting room.
What’s really frustrating is not having a consistent size in one clothing store.
And who is to blame for that? 🙂 After all, if you women would keep complaining about the plainness of our dress instead of about each others’ we would be sailing in the same boat 🙂
Yeah I suppose it would be better if “us women” didn’t leave our kitchens, just as “you men” intended.
Oh! Heck! Where did THAT come from? 🙂 I only meant you were too easy-going on us guys for not dressing up in as many various ways 🙂 Did I end up offending you?
Sorry I wasn’t having the best day at work and perhaps I pounced on you a bit too hard for the stereotype.
And the fabrics! By god, the fabrics! When will fashionable people realize I don’t want to wear goddamn polyester and acrylic? Where did all the cotton go?!?!