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Why is it so bloody difficult to get regular fit jeans these days!

  • 24-06-2018 03:55PM
    #1
    Creative83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭


    Went into four different shops today... only one had just one style of regular fit jeans and none in my size.


    The shops are absolutely full of skinny jeans :mad:



    Are regular jeans going out of fashion or something... if they are then I'm in trouble because I wouldn't be caught dead wearing skinny jeans :o


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  • #2
    BBDBB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    Cheer up fatso


  • #3
    Wheety
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,498 ✭✭✭Wheety


    I've started wearing 'slim'. Not as tight as skinny but a much better fit than regular. Look good when wearing shoes or trainers. Sit on the foot better and doesn't get frayed at the end.


  • #4
    TheAnalyst_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,370 ✭✭✭TheAnalyst_


    Be honest, you're really looking for 2002 era bootcuts, right?


  • #5
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,400 ✭✭✭✭cena


    Creative83 wrote: »
    Went into four different shops today... only one had just one style of regular fit jeans and none in my size.


    The shops are absolutely full of skinny jeans :mad:



    Are regular jeans going out of fashion or something... if they are then I'm in trouble because I wouldn't be caught dead wearing skinny jeans :o

    Them skinny jeans are every shop, so annoying.


  • #6
    Conservatory
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Conservatory


    I have a perfect BMI. I’ve no problem getting jeans that fit. Right on the button I am.

    Really boosts my immune system.


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  • #7
    Creative83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭Creative83


    BBDBB wrote: »
    Cheer up fatso


    Oh I'm not fat :)


  • #8
    NinetyTwoTeam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭NinetyTwoTeam


    this has to be the 49th time this thread has been done.

    there is a shop in my town that has nothing but regular fit jeans, wrangler's etc. all the culchie dad's love it.


  • #9
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    They tell us the majority of the population is obese yet these idiots making the jeans are selling stuff which won't fit their customers, I really can't understand it.


  • #10
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,611 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    This post has been deleted.


  • #11
    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Conservatory wrote: »
    I have a perfect BMI. I’ve no problem getting jeans that fit. Right on the button I am.

    Really boosts my immune system.

    You should be proud if that, you never mention it.


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  • #12
    Conservatory
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Conservatory


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    They tell us the majority of the population is obese yet these idiots making the jeans are selling stuff which won't fit their customers, I really can't understand it.

    Fashion doesn’t care for people who let their frame fall by the wayside. If they don’t have enough skinny people to make a profit they will raise the price rather than sell to larger people.


  • #13
    Happy4all
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭Happy4all


    There making a statement. Fat people don't look good beat into jeans.


  • #14
    Conservatory
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Conservatory


    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    You should be proud if that, you never mention it.

    I checked today always between 23 and 24 on the complicated BMI scale. I like to keep an eye on it. I don’t want to be ringing the boss saying I can’t come in today I have diabetes. It’d affect my career prospects.


  • #15
    HappyAsLarE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 761 ✭✭✭HappyAsLarE


    Men’s clothing is becoming more feminine. Equality innit.


  • #16
    accensi0n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,101 ✭✭✭accensi0n


    Really wish you could get 29/29 regular fit.


  • #17
    yesto24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 234 ✭✭yesto24


    Conservatory wrote: »
    I checked today always between 23 and 24 on the complicated BMI scale. I like to keep an eye on it. I don’t want to be ringing the boss saying I can’t come in today I have diabetes. It’d affect my career prospects.

    What is the complicated BMI scale?


  • #18
    thebull85
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭thebull85


    Regular fit jeans are awful looking, they are as bad as the skinny ones.


  • #19
    Conservatory
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Conservatory


    yesto24 wrote: »
    What is the complicated BMI scale?

    Still people haven’t been educated it’s frightening. It’s a measure of your body mass index. It is the be all and end all of health.
    You divide your weight in kg by your height in metres. Then divide your answer by your height in metres.
    This will give you a BMI score.
    You need to get between 18.5 and 25 if you don’t you will miss a lot of days of work due to your immune system not being robust enough.
    It really is a very complicated scale but I think it should be a leaving cert subject.
    I think a nation with a perfect BMI would miss very few days of work due to illness.


  • #20
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    HappyAsLarE wrote: »
    Men’s clothing is becoming more feminine. Equality innit.

    Meh, fashions have always changed, back a few hundred years ago Irish men were mad for 'skirts', Scots still are


  • #21
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Conservatory wrote: »
    Still people haven’t been educated it’s frightening. It’s a measure of your body mass index. It is the be all and end all of health.
    You divide your weight in kg by your height in metres. Then divide your answer by your height in metres.
    This will give you a BMI score.
    You need to get between 18.5 and 25 if you don’t you will miss a lot of days of work due to your immune system not being robust enough.
    It really is a very complicated scale but I think it should be a leaving cert subject.
    I think a nation with a perfect BMI would miss very few days of work due to illness.

    Yet again. BMI has nothing to do with the immune system. :rolleyes:


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  • #22
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Jeans? Who is wearing jeans in 2018?


  • #23
    May Contain Small Parts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 124 ✭✭May Contain Small Parts


    BBDBB wrote: »
    Cheer up fatso

    Funnily enough, slim/tapered trousers are much better if you're fat.

    Because you're larger than normal around the bum/waist/thighs but not at the bottoms of your legs it matches your shape and they end up looking like normal straight-legged trousers.

    On the other hand, when you you put on a pair of straight-leg trousers that fit, they're too long and way too big on the lower leg so it looks like you're wearing clown pants.


  • #24
    Conservatory
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Conservatory


    Royalty Greasy Packer wrote: »
    Yet again. BMI has nothing to do with the immune system. :rolleyes:

    A nation of ostriches


  • #25
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,722 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Creative83 wrote: »
    Went into four different shops today... only one had just one style of regular fit jeans and none in my size.


    The shops are absolutely full of skinny jeans :mad:



    Are regular jeans going out of fashion or something... if they are then I'm in trouble because I wouldn't be caught dead wearing skinny jeans :o
    I'm 30 30 but have massive bloody thighs... Topman and most other brands not a chance... totally agree... I recommend superdry jeans they fit normally for the most part i.e not skinny or spray on skinny.


  • #26
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    If your BMI is showing you as healthy that means you're a skinny fücker who needs to make some serious gainz


  • #27
    guestwifi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭guestwifi


    I'm not that old, but not in my 20's anymore, I think skinny jeans look hideous though, everytime I see a young lad wearing a pair it looks like he's wearing an adult diaper underneath. And do these lads not have calf muscles? Recently gave out to a young one in a clothes shop for constantly recommending skinny jeans to me, the damn things are horribly uncomfortable if you've got any muscles on your legs. Most young lads today are built like twigs.

    Anyway OP, head onto some of the US websites and buy direct from the likes of Wrangler, much better selection in that market, they'll have stuff ya like and if you buy a few at the same time the postage isn't all that bad.


  • #28
    Blaas4life
    Closed Accounts Posts: 198 ✭✭Blaas4life


    riffmongous wrote: »
    If your BMI is showing you as healthy that means you're a skinny fücker who needs to make some serious gainz

    What should be a healthy waist/weight for someone just shy of 6ft tall


  • #29
    Conservatory
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Conservatory


    riffmongous wrote: »
    If your BMI is showing you as healthy that means you're a skinny fücker who needs to make some serious gainz

    That’s what the protein shake industry wants us to believe. Carrying too much muscle makes your heart have to work harder. I have bigger arms and legs than most at my weight class but I’m not ridiculously oversized.


  • #30
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Skinny jeans for a skinny latte man.. he's a Sparman waiting in Athy, he'd like to come and meet us but he thinks he'd blow our mind... Let the children boogie let the children boogie.


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  • #31
    Conservatory
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    Blaas4life wrote: »
    What should be a healthy waist/weight for someone just shy of 6ft tall

    140-177 pounds. Although the steroid heads would have you believe you should be 400 pounds with a six pack and that means you are healthy.


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