pants

[emchy]

first - let me explain. i hate my pants. my day was rightly horrible and i blame my pants. they seem innocuous enough. they are hip black slacksy things with enough extra detailing to be cute and office worthy all at once. they look nice, good even. but there are no belt loops. and they have stretch in the fabric. and for some reason that i do not understand, though they seem to fit, as i wear them they start to fall off. now at home getting dressed, i remembered this issue, and tried to pin the waistband smaller. it didn't work and i almost broke my louise brooks pin in the process. ok fuggit right? not so bad, i can deal with it - and off to work i went. in my peacoat i didn't realize how much harder it would be to hitch up my pants. after i got on the train i felt like a little kid, lifting up my coat, lifting up my sweater, grabbing my pants and yanking them up as high as they would go. i hoped this would not be a harbinger of things to come. i was reading a sheaf of papers on the train. when i took the clip that held them together off it fell to the ground. when i got up to get it my pants nearly fell completely off.

let's have that sink in a bit. on a muni train during rush hour my pants almost literally fell off. !!! to make matters worse i was already thinking ahead to my day at the office. the office that branded one co-worker irish lard and made a practice of commenting on which thong she was displaying via her low rise pants. i had worn a long sweater to avoid the skin / underwear showcase but as my pants kept falling lower i began to worry. it was of course the day that i chose to wear the cute boy briefs with oranges on the front and the word JUICY on the back. great. JUICY is flashing the fucking office. what a nightmare.

when i got off the train and walked up the steps out of the station, i really jsut couldn't believe it. i had had pants fall low before, but i was literally walking with legs pressed closer together to avoid losing the pants. the coat was just making it worse. hiding the falling fabric but prevneting me from accessing the waistband to hike them back up.

i wore these annoying fuckng pants all day. in fact i am still wearing them now. i think i am too stubborn to take them off. honestly.

my day had a lot of other bullshit go wrong. miscommunication. lack of communication. mix ups. work overloads. edits. feedbacks. crankys all around. but really - i think it all started with, and can be symbolized by the pants. and i am not wearing them again until i get a pair of goddamned suspenders.

Comments

[odelenu.livejournal.com]

lol! Sorry to laugh at your expense but that was funny.
And of course it has happened to me before now.

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

once i got home i actually thought it was pretty hilarious too - lol all you want
and of course- it happens to all of us at one point or another

[psybelle.livejournal.com]

mmmmn... suspenders. May I say, "Yum!"

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

you may indeed
suspenders rock

[crayonbeam.livejournal.com]

one of my least favourite brands of suck is the kind where you think oh this wont be so bad and then it is so then you (and by you i mean i) kick yourself all day because of it ugh

so what will become the fate of these pants? sewing? donating? eating fried twinkies until they fit?

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

i think they will sit in the drawer until eventually i get the waist taken in - and then i still wont trust them - so they will sit in the drawer and never leave because they are too cute to give up and too traumatic to wear

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

I have a pair of pants like that. Strangely, they are still in my closet, probably b/c they are cure pinstripey pants. But I did honestly spend an entire workday hitching my pants up, clutching the waistband with one hand just in case, being very careful when I got out of my seat on BART...

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

bingo
i have learned i must wear clothes that make the waistband accessible for the hitching

[mscate.livejournal.com]

this has happened to me too! I was wearing those stupid hipster jeans (that of course fit fine in th store) and was at the supermarket. I picked up the basket with both hands and my jeans fell down!