Yesterday I saw a young girl get jeans measured for hemming at a dry cleaners. The tag was still hanging on them. No mention was made of allowing for shrinkage! I wanted to jump in and say, please wash them first. But, I really felt that the seamstress at the dry cleaners should have done that! I just hope they added a little for shrinkage, and that she'll be happy with the results.
Biting... hole... clean... through... lip...
I have one of those strange looking letter openers, with the pointy part (plastic) and slot that contains a blade: everything is plastic with only the blade being metal. Put what you want to cut open in the slot and zip... it's open. We use it to open those vacuum sealed packages.
Bonnie, in Middletown, VA
*pats Doc on the head* There there...just think of the mass confusion and hair pulling lip biting frustration as a part of better living through textiles. (G)
Puh-leez ladies! Surely you know by now that how you wash them after you get them home is only a small part of how jeans fit!
I would lay money that if you go to a shop, and buy 5 different brands of jeans that fit you, they will be in at least two different sizes (maybe all five will be different sizes), and not one of them will act like another so far as how they react to laundering. One of the reasons I still half dry new jeans and put up with the discomfort of wearing them dry. These days you never know what commercial clothes are going to do when you wash them.
NightMist
It wasn't that. I was holding myself back from making an inappropriate (but hilarious in my own mind) remark/joke about what the ladies were doing differently when they washed their jeans... Don't bother asking - I'm NOT going to say it, publicly or privately! Leave it to your imagination.
Damn, that's hot! I'm calling my old lady for a date tonite! :-)
Doc
LOLOL -- He does have legs, they're just short -- honest!! He's about 5'8" with a 30" inseam! Poor DH -- if his legs matched the rest of his body (35" long sleeve shirts and stuff like polos need to be about 3" longer to fit properly) he'd be at least 6'0".
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Not touching that with a ten-foot laundry pole, I'll interject that one of DW's favorite coffee mugs that I gave her *eons* ago is *still* a Barbara Dale: "Behind every working woman is an enormous pile of unwashed laundry."
Doc
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