Today I Consign To Hell -the All Saints version

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  • sionisaissionisais Shipmate
    edited July 19
    Yes, but these are exactly the same except for the colour of the fabric! Same style, product code, size ordered but a different colour.
    Could be the mysterious Orient, I reckon sh!t quality control.
  • I have given up ordering clothes from random online sources, as I've been disappointed so many times in the last year or so.
    Nowadays I stick to businesses I've had a mail-order history with in the past.
  • TheOrganistTheOrganist Shipmate
    ... and people wonder why I still wear the clothes of my yoof.
  • Hell is too comfortable for the evil swine who yesterday penetrated all the security programs and hacked our email address list, sending a spoof - but convincing - party invitation to everyone. I got it from the session clerk of our church who was unaware she had sent it to me. It may even have reached one or two shipmates, to whom I helplessly apologise. I hope is just coincidence that our bank account was hacked around the same time. If not, then we are in real trouble.
  • ... and people wonder why I still wear the clothes of my yoof.

    Sadly the clothes of my youth have not fitted me for many years, and the ones I have been wearing for the past 10 years are becoming rags in increasing numbers.
    I had hoped they would 'see me out', but I appear to be outliving many of my possessions - particularly underwear !
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    //preens//
    I am currently wearing items from my yoof which fit perfectly. I think I got them when I was 19, and here I am, still wearing them.

    Admittedly they are earrings. But still! They still fit!
  • [Ahem!] Not for me.

    However, I would be able to wear clothes from my younger days, if I had them, as I weigh slightly less now than I did when I was 25.
  • sionisaissionisais Shipmate
    I can now, at 68, wear the clothes I had when I was half that age, but I put on weight since then until I was in hospital for three months. In the interim all my clothes from my thirties had been disposed of and I now have a new wardrobe! A few ties are only memories of those days.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    sionisais wrote: »
    Yes, but these are exactly the same except for the colour of the fabric! Same style, product code, size ordered but a different colour.
    Could be the mysterious Orient, I reckon sh!t quality control.
    A tailorette (seamstress) I've worked with for many years, professionally well trained, tells me there can be discrepancies in the same factory, even between people working side by side: one piece with exact specs, while another item made by someone else will be slightly, or quite a bit, different.

    Luckily, I've rarely had that myself with some of the more stylish clothing, like Brook Taverner (UK), but it clearly can happen. With them, returns are possible.

    I imagine companies with less stringent QC and with less experienced, i.e. cheaper labourers, will have wildly bigger variations.

    Really sorry to hear of the hassles. - Annoying!
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    [...] Nowadays I stick to businesses I've had a mail-order history with in the past.

    Absolutely!
  • I bought a pair of jeans from a well-known and respected High Street store. They fit well.

    Later I bought another pair of the same pattern and didn't bother to try them on. That was a mistake as they seem to be quite bit bigger. A mistake in labelling, perhaps?
  • SandemaniacSandemaniac Shipmate
    sionisais wrote: »
    I can now, at 68, wear the clothes I had when I was half that age

    I have the body of a man half my age.

    I really must get rid of it before the neighbours wonder what the smell is.

  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    :smiley:
  • Depends where you've been keeping it ...
  • sionisaissionisais Shipmate
    Something narsty in the woodshed perhaps?
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    sionisais wrote: »
    I can now, at 68, wear the clothes I had when I was half that age

    I have the body of a man half my age.

    I really must get rid of it before the neighbours wonder what the smell is.

    Bad Jokes thread is up that way ^^^

  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    edited July 20
    A while back I bought a pair of navy blue trousers in that well known bastion of British sartorial good sense M&S, and they were so perfect I went back and got a (supposedly identical) black pair.

    Were they perfect? They were not: even a pair two sizes bigger wouldn't go round me. I was Not Pleased.
  • Wesley JWesley J Circus Host
    Piglet wrote: »
    A while back I bought a pair of navy blue trousers in that well known bastion of British sartorial good sense M&S, and they were so perfect I went back and got a (supposedly identical) black pair.

    Were they perfect? They were not: even a pair two sizes bigger wouldn't go round me. I was Not Pleased.

    Yes, it's amazing how fast one gains weight, isn't it...! :)

    <gets coat, ... but that doesn't fit... grrr>
  • I have size medium, large, and extra large clothing in my closet. They are all the same size and fit.
  • The RogueThe Rogue Shipmate
    At parkrun when we hand out the volunteer hi-viz vests we say that they come in the two army sizes - too large or too small.
  • MrsBeakyMrsBeaky Shipmate
    Piglet wrote: »
    A while back I bought a pair of navy blue trousers in that well known bastion of British sartorial good sense M&S, and they were so perfect I went back and got a (supposedly identical) black pair.

    Were they perfect? They were not: even a pair two sizes bigger wouldn't go round me. I was Not Pleased.

    This is a problem I've been encountering in M and S for quite some time.
    Whenever I want to try something on I have to take several of the same size in a chosen item in the hope of finding one that might fit.
    Somewhat frustrating!
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