Re: [issues] the pain of finding clothes that work

2000-11-16 Thread a.eva yee
ohh, ohh, clothes! my favorite subject. i have a '34 inch inseam and most pants are too short for me. also my waist and my hip measurements are barely 6 inches apart.so, gap khakis don't fit. i get hip flap (that extra fabric found in the hip area). i really tend to wear guys jeans or unisex

Re: [issues] the pain of finding clothes that work

2000-11-16 Thread jenn
"a.eva yee" wrote: > i would rather spend the moolah and have > great clothes that i can wear for years to come rather than buying > something because it's on sale and praying that it fits right. my clothes > don't even fill up a closet. i still have pieces of clothing from when i > was a junior

Re: [issues] the pain of finding clothes that work

2000-11-16 Thread a.eva yee
if it fits and you like it...buy mutiples. that works for me as well. i have the same cut of jeans in 3 different washes 2 pairs each. At 03:14 PM 11/16/00 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >"a.eva yee" wrote: > > > i would rather spend the moolah and have > > great clothes that i can wear for year

Re: [issues] the pain of finding clothes that work

2000-11-16 Thread jenn
"a.eva yee" wrote: > Jenn V wrote:  > >... and what if you're a large build, and you wear pants out in the > >crotch (or more precisely, upper thigh) in about a year? > >Or am I missing some brilliant idea. Anyone got a brilliant idea for me? > if it fits and you like it...buy mutiples. that wor

Re: [issues] the pain of finding clothes that work

2000-11-16 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 06:05:04PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was just hoping someone had a better plan. I keep hearing about people > who have had jeans for decades, and wonder what I'm doing wrong. Must be the same thing I'm doing wrong - mine go in the knees and the butt quickly too.

Re: [issues] the pain of finding clothes that work

2000-11-16 Thread Vinnie
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Julie wrote: > It's 45" (114cm) from my waist to the damned floor and I have a hard > time buying pants with the correct rise. duh question: have you tried men's pants? I'm one of those ridculously short people with a short waist (I'm not sure why they call it that, since t

[issues] Jokes as a battleground

2000-11-16 Thread Mary Gardiner
Noting the recent flamewar about jokes, I'd just like to ask people if this is their experience too: I find it very hard to convince people that discriminatory jokes are very problematic. For example, I have a friend who is generally sympathetic to women's problems. He is in particular aware, as

Re: [issues] the pain of finding clothes that work

2000-11-16 Thread Vinnie
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes, but I /do/ that. I buy two or three pairs of pants a year - and > wear them till they're just about dead in the crotch then buy another > two or three pairs. The previous year's set will do for emergencies till > they die completely, by which ti

[issues] women in debian

2000-11-16 Thread Skud
There's a thread going on on debian-devel about women in Debian, if anyone's interested. K. -- Kirrily 'Skud' Robert - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://infotrope.net/ "My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care?" --Marquis de Sade _

Re: [issues] women in debian

2000-11-16 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 05:14:05PM +1100, Kirrily Skud Robert wrote: > There's a thread going on on debian-devel about women in Debian, if > anyone's interested. > > K. Unfortunately the archives at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0011/threads.html only go up to Nov the 6th. I'll have to l

[issues] new grrl shirts at copyleft (sorry for the cross-post, but...)

2000-11-16 Thread Nicoya
Sorry for the cross-post, but with the clothing discussion on issues recently, I couldn't help but post to both lists... http://www.copyleft.net/whats_new.phtml Of course, there are already some annoying product discussion posts re: the new offering, but I can easily disregard those. Looks like