For some reason, I am never really relaxed unless I am wearing blue jeans. I own a couple of pairs of black jeans sure, but I don’t feel as relaxed in them – I tend to wear those with a business shirt and blazer on occasions where I need to dress smart casual.
My main trousers of choice are Levi 516s, in what I supposed is usually called a straight fit. I have been wearing those for quite a long time, although I also own a couple of pairs of 501s.
When there is a rip in my jeans, I immediately toss them out and buy a new pair.
This happened on the weekend, when I found a tear along the seam of the seat of a pair of Levis. I tossed them out and headed off to Highpoint West to buy a replacement.
Whilst Levis are my usual choice, I decided to try American Eagle for a change.
Six months or so ago, I had not heard of American Eagle. But then all the crazies connected to Cancel Culture decided to go nuts over an advertising campaign featuring the delectable Sydney Sweeney, currently considered the sexiest woman on the planet (she might well be) by many.
You’ve probably heard about the campaign slogan: Sydney Sweeney has great jeans. All sorts of hysteria was generated by woke and foolish people about alleged hidden means and racism.
Some people probably also complained that featuring a beautiful woman to promote jeans is discriminatory towards the more ordinary or pudgy looking of us, or that it possibly involved a subliminally eugenic agenda. Maybe, maybe not. The hysteria and stupidity of the echo chamber which is contemporary social media knows no limits.
So anywho, I decided to pop into Myers and browse the American Eagle display.
That is where I encountered a problem. Virtually all of the jeans were a maximum of size 32. I’ve spent most of my adult life at size 36 (although one of my pairs of suit trousers doesn’t fit me anymore, and it involves a lot of inhaling to get my dinner suit trousers on the two times per year I attend black tie events).
There was only one option for me – size 36 in baggy style.
I must say, it is very comfortable, but it really doesn’t look that great.
I probably will give American Eagle another try next time I buy a pair of jeans, but where slightly overweight middle aged men like me can’t find the style of jeans we are accustomed to wearing, then I might have to stick to Levis.
That, friends, is a first world problem.
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