First of all I’d like to tell you all that I am not the type of girl who is massively into clothes. As long as I have a decent pair of jeans, a couple of sweatshirts and a couple of turtle necks to call my own I’m one happy lady. Well I HAD two pairs of jeans that I just absolutely loved!! Notice I said HAD. One pair had to go in the scrap pile last week due to the fact they have a huge hole in the seat of the them. And…..same affliction happened to the other pair this morning. Hence my question. Is my butt getting bigger or is it a coincidence that both pairs of my beloved pants wore out at the exact same place within a week of one another.
I don’t know. You be the judge. LOL Now I have to go pants shopping and I absolutely despise clothes shopping. But if I want some pants to cover my (you know) I guess I’ll have to bite the bullet and venture out.
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Margaret (Who am I?), on March 30 2008
@ 2:28 pm
Since I don’t know you, I really can’t answer your question directly, but offer another theory.
They don’t make cloth like they used to. Yarns are spun finer now thanks to technology than they ever were before resulting in thinner, lighter and less sturdy cloth. That means that the pair of jeans you bought 10 years ago that LASTED you 10 years are now replaced with jeans made from substantially less substantial cloth and won’t last you 2 years (given the amount of wear you indicate you subject your jeans to).
While this technology has helped to keep prices down, and stretches resources further, as a benefit to the planet, well, the jury is still out on that.
P.S. — If you’re like me and buy several of something when you shop because you hate to shop, then it’s only reasonable that those several somethings wear out at about the same time.
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