the pleats saga

[xfer]

* purchased a pair of $60 pants for school at the Mens' Wearhouse

* took them to a tailor to have them hemmed

* found out they were pleated, and that pleated is apparently bad

* got the pants back. snipped out the hems. ironed out the creases. preparing to return them with my receipt to a different Mens' Wearhouse

* noticed that there are small cuts (less than a centimeter) in the legs of the pants--my daughter-of-a-seamstress coworker says that tailors always do that to prevent bunching, so these were PROBABLY not there when i bought them.

soooo should i bring them back anyway and lie and say they weren't altered? will they notice the cuts--is that what they look for--and call me out to my face??

or should i go back to the tailor and be like "hi nice job, can you RE-hem these because, um, i decided to snip them out?"

 

[minxnim]

hm well i guess if you're suave enough they won't notice the cuts.

 

[xfer]

i'm not very suave. i think i might talk about how i bought them for my "partner" so they get (hopefully) weirded out by the gayness and just hurriedly shove the money at me so i'll get out of their store.

 

[minxnim]

fold them so that they are perfectly flat and just HAND them the receipt first then the pants (in a bag, folded) then they'll probably not notice.

 

[xfer]

i actually crumpled them a little bit so they would ascribe any faint remainders of hem-creases to that, but now they're flat in the ORIGINAL men's wearhouse bag. i'll give them the receipt first, that's a good idea!

p.s. this is your fault!

 

[xfer]

shit...you know, i removed the tags--that isn't a problem as long as i have the receipt, right?

 

[minxnim]

alex, you know, perhaps it is my fault BUT, it would have also been my fault if you'd been traipsing around the greater boston area looking like you had a deformed puffy front crotch area:

seriously look at the difference:

the pleats would have given you GIRL HIPS

 

[minxnim]

do you still have the tags? i guess it depends from store to store. maybe you should call?
p.s. if you can't return those pants and DARE to wear them i am sending these guys out to get you:

 

[gekko]

I am probably going to catch hell for this but I really don't have a problem with pleated dress pants. I own several pairs and I think they look fine.

 

[xfer]

yeah but you're my board archfoe sooooo if you wear neckties, i'll wear bolo ties.

 

[The Dope]

I should add here that I just spent the better part of 5 minutes trying to explain to gekko why pleats are bad, and I showed him examples of non-pleated dress pants and everything, and he still doesn't get it.

 

[gekko]

Thats your call, but wouldn't a bowtie be an equally contrary and not quite so texan a choice.

 

[minxnim]

hey, feel free to live in the delusion of your pleated pants hell pal. i dont give a shit.

i DO care if alex suffers. but i mean, i don't even know *you*.

 

[gekko]

The other kind is fine too. They frankly don't look all that different to me.

 

[minxnim]

the dope, that's sad.
at least you know.

 

[minxnim]

trust me, they look different from a distance. GIRL HIPS.

 

[The Dope]

They look very different, and I pointed out the difference in the side-by-side picture above and he still didn't get it. I did all I can do though, y'know? The rest is up to him.

 

[avi]

he chooses his own fate of being destined to live alone.

 

[minxnim]

well all that's left to do is wince when he wears them and give girls that are laughing an assured NOD that you are 'with them'.

 

[xfer]

my co-worker just said that pleats help to hide your gut and that some people watch a lot of "queer eye" in which "Parsley Cressman" disparages anyone who doesn't spend 3 hours per day at the gym and have a perfectly flat belly and that that's why he hates pleats.