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Jay asked me a simple question early in the morning of Friday 5th December. It had been quite a cold night, but I had enjoyed various parts of my day, and I had been drinking for some time. It was but 34 minutes into the day, and the question was as follows:
Hummer, are you busy tomorrow eve?
To which I replied: maybe I should just write something about how difficult it is to get a good pair of trousers nowadays.
At which point the title also became the synopsis, the content, and the conclusion. It is blatantly difficult to get clothes in this day and age without investing too much time, money, and effort. It’s the twenty first century – we were meant to have colonised the moon by now. We were meant to have sent people around Jupiter years ago. It’s the Willenium! Yet – whenever I have tried to purchase some new trousers, I have gone through the same almost ritualistic sequence:
The search basically revolves around me entering every shop I see, and being disgusted by the fact that no one sells anything other than jeans. Worse still, they are the same type of jeans – they are all the same blue denim stressed jeans. The type you can pay extra for, to have some more rips added. In any other situation this would be called daylight robbery, but in this – it’s called fascism which is colloquially shortened to fashion.
Anyway – after going through each of the shops for the first time, I realise that it is almost time for the shops to close, so I end up going back to the first shop, grabbing the first pair with a zip fly in size 34M/L and after trying them on – purchasing them. This tends to mean that I usually wear the same style of trousers. The only pair which is any different is the ones that I have had for longer, and which are falling apart.
So I leave the shop, with a pair of trousers that don’t fit, that I have spent large sums of money for, and I return home. The next day I go somewhere to learn, and find that everyone is wearing the same pair of trousers. The only ones who are different are those who dare to wear brown trousers, and those that wear cargo trousers. I used to wear them, but they are too light and show everything.
This was a totally pointless waste of my time, although I would like to know what direction the fashion industry will take. Will people really start standing in magic boxes having their bodies measured before being sold the perfect pair of trousers? Have shoes followed the same route – meaning everyone wears the same pair of trainers? Will other clothes follow suite? Do people from third world countries regard our dress like we regard the dress of people in futuristic science fiction crap?
Probably not – anyway, why should I care. I’m all right, at least until the next time I need some trousers.
Written by Rawson
Hummer, are you busy tomorrow eve?
To which I replied: maybe I should just write something about how difficult it is to get a good pair of trousers nowadays.
At which point the title also became the synopsis, the content, and the conclusion. It is blatantly difficult to get clothes in this day and age without investing too much time, money, and effort. It’s the twenty first century – we were meant to have colonised the moon by now. We were meant to have sent people around Jupiter years ago. It’s the Willenium! Yet – whenever I have tried to purchase some new trousers, I have gone through the same almost ritualistic sequence:
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1) Realisation: Realisation that I need more trousers
2) Discovery: The point at which I realise that I’m running out of trousers
3) Attenuation: Where I try to get trousers, but end up doing nothing
4) Development: Where I actually go into down and try to get some trousers.
The search basically revolves around me entering every shop I see, and being disgusted by the fact that no one sells anything other than jeans. Worse still, they are the same type of jeans – they are all the same blue denim stressed jeans. The type you can pay extra for, to have some more rips added. In any other situation this would be called daylight robbery, but in this – it’s called fascism which is colloquially shortened to fashion.
Anyway – after going through each of the shops for the first time, I realise that it is almost time for the shops to close, so I end up going back to the first shop, grabbing the first pair with a zip fly in size 34M/L and after trying them on – purchasing them. This tends to mean that I usually wear the same style of trousers. The only pair which is any different is the ones that I have had for longer, and which are falling apart.
So I leave the shop, with a pair of trousers that don’t fit, that I have spent large sums of money for, and I return home. The next day I go somewhere to learn, and find that everyone is wearing the same pair of trousers. The only ones who are different are those who dare to wear brown trousers, and those that wear cargo trousers. I used to wear them, but they are too light and show everything.
This was a totally pointless waste of my time, although I would like to know what direction the fashion industry will take. Will people really start standing in magic boxes having their bodies measured before being sold the perfect pair of trousers? Have shoes followed the same route – meaning everyone wears the same pair of trainers? Will other clothes follow suite? Do people from third world countries regard our dress like we regard the dress of people in futuristic science fiction crap?
Probably not – anyway, why should I care. I’m all right, at least until the next time I need some trousers.
Written by Rawson