Monday, February 07, 2005

What does it have in its pocketses?

Heidi Klum, listen up. I think the next assignment for Project Runway should be designing women's pants that don't bell around the pockets. I mean, it's ridiculous. What changed in pants design over the past three years that resulted in baggy-pocket pants???? Did the clothing gods decide that we'd all gotten so fat that they had to make a little extra (and incredibly unflattering) room in the butt area of pants? It used to be that you could find a decent pair of nicely cut slacks at Banana Republic or the Gap or JCrew. If they were wool, they had a nice lining inside so you didn't have to spend all day scratching at your legs, or deal with that horrible thick leg feeling that comes when you have to wear tights underneath your pants. Either way, no baggy pockets. Then, one day, someone decided to change how they cut their ready-to-wear pants and here we are, doomed to a closet full of pants with bad, messy, nonaesthetically pleasing lines. Sometimes I buy pants that don't LOOK like they will bell around the pockets, only to get to the office and find that they BELL when you actually wear them outside the changing room!! It's bad design. It's tacky and ugly and a total personal pet peeve, right up there with parking tickets, bad customer service and people who can't use "myriad" properly in a sentence. I'm anal, I know. But why must it be so hard to find pants that FIT?

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