It’s Valentine’s evening, and we’ll be going out to dinner soon, but a couple of quick, light-hearted notes. There’s lots of serious debate going on in the comments about gender, sex roles, theology, race, and so forth; it’s time for a break.
I’m thrilled with the adorable new Paul Frank watch my wife gave me today! She knows how much I love his stuff, especially the accessories.
And for those of you who want to know how I spent my evening last night, my beloved thought I should share that after an exhausting day, I settled in for a couple of hours of frantic channel-changing, as I went back and forth between the Westminster dog show and coverage of Olympic pairs figure skating. I watched while carefully pressing and hanging out my wonderful new pair of Lucky Jeans (women’s, size 10, long). As if this behavior wasn’t amusing enough to my patient and understanding spouse, she has been reminding me all day that at one point, I shrieked at the television coverage of the terrier class: "Ohmygod, when that Jack Russell comes out I’m just going to lose it!"
Man’s gotta be very comfortable in his own sexuality to share all this… or merely, as in my case, playfully provocative.
Off to dinner. Something serious tomorrow, I promise.
i laughed out loud at this. especially because two hours ago, i was doing my boyfriend a favor and actually ironing two of his dress shirts (he’s working 13 hours days for the next three months, and was too tired to do it last night) which is something i NEVER do. iron, that is. but i felt bad for him, so i said i would. so i’m standing there, cursing at the sleeves and these creases that come out of nowhere and how the hell do you iron around buttons and…
phew. domesticity and me - not a good match.
oh, and of course i find the fact that you can wear a pair of women’s lucky jeans that fit and i cannot to be a supreme injustice :)
Oh, Hugo.
Ha! I laughed out loud too.
Was there a problem with the Jack Russell?
Hugo, you wear women’s jeans? That’s just wrong…
Mr. Bad, lots of men wear women’s jeans. Search around on Google, or go to many stores in big cities — you’ll find lots of guys (especially with slimmer builds) who find that they like the fit better. Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it, brother!
Oh, and Arwen — nothing was wrong with the Jack; he was just so pickin’ cute!
Let me get this right: You were ironing women’s jeans (to wear later) while watching a dog show AND figure skating while shrieking the words, “Ohmygod, . . . I’m going to lose it.”
Really? C’mon, you’ve used some editorial license here . . . please say you have . . .
Next time, could you talk about fixing your carbeurator or farting and scratching or anything else . . . ?
Stephen
Steve, you’ve known me for years, and you know (I hope), that I’ve got sufficient masculine bona fides. Just call it a multi-facetedness, or metrosexuality.
I don’t think my car has a carburetor, and I do have some poison oak on my leg, so I have been scratching…
All written with a smile. All the more so because with your boxing and working out you could kick my butt.
Stephen
Steve, I suspect that it will never come to that — unless we somehow get into a fight over the last bite of guacamole at our Friday lunches!
Nothing wrong with men in girl’s jeans, if they fit.
Heck, I often head over to the boy’s department to buy my jeans. A lot of the low-rider cuts so popular in the women’s department just don’t fit me at all, because they were obviously not made for any woman in possession of a woman-sized pelvis. Some of them that are in what is usually my size wouldn’t fit over my skeleton. Maybe that’s why they fit guys so much better. :P
I find it annoying that the guy’s jeans are usually cheaper AND better made. So I just buy the guy’s instead sometimes.
As for mr bad saying that’s “just wrong” - that reminds me of something that happened to me in high school. I used to have a yellow backpack that I had pinned a bunch of beanie-baby type toys to and a few pins and patches, as well as having a bunch of random song lyrics scrawled over it in sharpie. One of the rednecks came up to me once and asked me “Why the hell d’you put all sh*t on yer bag? Tha’s jus’ wrong. You some kinda devil worshipper?” I had a good laugh over it, which seemed to confuse the poor kid even further. He probably still thinks I’m sacrificing puppies in my basement or something. Doesn’t take much at all to really weird out some people I guess…
Hugo, you said: “Mr. Bad, lots of men wear women’s jeans. Search around on Google, or go to many stores in big cities — you’ll find lots of guys (especially with slimmer builds) who find that they like the fit better. Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it, brother!”
Well, I’ve been of “slimmer build” most of my life, until just recently when I cracked the 50yo mark. Up until my 40s my 5′10″ frame weighed 125-130 lbs. and wore 28″ waist/30″ inseam pants. It just never occured to me that the big butts and wide thighs of women’s pants would come even close to fitting my beanpole figure. Some of my female friends even used to comment that I had “snake hips,” i.e., no hips. In fact, up until recently I found my best clothes in the youth departments, usually made for large teens.
Guess I’ll have to try some women’s pants if I can 1) find some with small enough butts and thighs, and 2) styles that I like.
Well, here’s a tidbit: my wife and I can share the same pair of jeans. This makes justifying the purchase much easier. So if anyone asks who wears the pants in the family, we can honestly answer that it depends on what day of the week it is. She got the Lucky Junipers yesterday.
Breadfish, the “that’s just wrong” phrase is one that I and my friends use with each other when we’re joking around and ribbing each other. I trust Hugo took it that way, and you should too.
Hugo said: “Well, here’s a tidbit: my wife and I can share the same pair of jeans.”
This one made me laugh out loud. Not because of what you said, but because of the image of me trying to wear my wife’s pants. She’s a 6′3″ Amazon-type and fairly, ahem, ‘big.’ I could put her’s on, but alas, the reverse just could never happen.
Wow, my husband and I so can’t wear the same pair of jeans. He’s about a foot taller and about a hundred pounds heavier than me.
We do wear a lot of the same T-shirts, though. Given that pretty much anyone can wear a large enough T-shirt.
mr bad - if you’re really keen on trying on a pair of women’s jeans that’ll fit a guy, go for the teen department there as well, or brands that advertise to the 20-something crowd. Most of those are cut to fit a thin “model” look body. If you find one of those “exclusive” stores that only sell to the hoity-toity crowd and don’t carry “plus” sizes (i.e. anything over a size 12), you’ll really be in luck, as long as you don’t mind shelling out $100 or more for a pair of designer jeans (something I have never and will never do, even if I ever do manage to fit into a pair).
Yeah, mr. b… check out the link to hugo’s jeans. Definitely *not* made for big hips. A lot of the ultra-low cut jeans that are in style lately are just not made for curvy hips and butts. (Are they still in style, or am I out of it?) I suspect they’d fit my boyfriend better than they’d fit most women (he’s also tall and skeletal ^_^).
but alas I cannot share clothes with him, as he’s a full foot taller than me.
this post cracked me up.
Thanks for the suggestions re. finding jeans, but I think I’ll stick to the standard Levis and Lee jeans I’ve known and loved for decades. Somehow I think that hanging out in the girls’ clothing section just insn’t going to be my thing, at least in this lifetime/incarnation. Heck, for that matter, I loathe shopping altogether, thus, I like to ‘hit-and-run’ so I get out of the store/mall as fast as possible.