Swimming in pants
2020-May-27, Wednesday 21:34![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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A while ago, I wrote about how I bought something at a shop called MDNT45 rather than buying the similar Demobaza version, and since then I bought a couple other things from them too. When my stimulus check came on, I sprung for a pair of pants from them, but first I emailed to ask about the measurements, since my inseam is 36 inches and it's almost impossible for me to find pants that fit. They emailed back that they could adjust the length for no charge, and the Small said it fit a 29-33 inch waist (mine is 30 inches), so I said that a Small was fine. The pants took a while to get to me, but there's coronavirus-related shipping delays everywhere, so that's okay. But when they arrived...well:
Small?
I could pull them completely off without unbuttoning them. I'm very thin, but I'm not that very thin. When I emailed to ask, MDNT45 said that it was too bad, since if I had told them I wanted the waist a smaller size they could have adjusted that too. It was a bit dismissive, and I didn't want to argue, so I took the pants down the street to a tailor and paid $13 to have them altered.
Several people asked me why I didn't raise more of a fuss about it, which is a good question. There are a couple reasons: the first is that while I still kind of doubt that's a 33-inch waist in the picture, I don't have any proof because I didn't measure it before I took it to the tailor. The second is that while I was annoyed at MDNT45's response, English isn't their first language and it's possible they meant it in a sympathetic way--that they could have made another alteration if I had asked. And since they already didn't charge me to have the pants lengthened, I thought they had earned at least a bit of forbearance. And when I got the pants back from the tailor, they fit perfectly, so that's that.
I paid $200 for the pants, but it was worth those $13 to not have to have a drawn-out argument, especially when I didn't know whether I was right or not. It's really important to me to have a basis for my own complaints.
Now I have another pair of pants, and since I don't have to go back into the office for the rest of the year, I'll get more wear out of them. Full cyberpunk elf aesthetic is a go!
Small?
I could pull them completely off without unbuttoning them. I'm very thin, but I'm not that very thin. When I emailed to ask, MDNT45 said that it was too bad, since if I had told them I wanted the waist a smaller size they could have adjusted that too. It was a bit dismissive, and I didn't want to argue, so I took the pants down the street to a tailor and paid $13 to have them altered.
Several people asked me why I didn't raise more of a fuss about it, which is a good question. There are a couple reasons: the first is that while I still kind of doubt that's a 33-inch waist in the picture, I don't have any proof because I didn't measure it before I took it to the tailor. The second is that while I was annoyed at MDNT45's response, English isn't their first language and it's possible they meant it in a sympathetic way--that they could have made another alteration if I had asked. And since they already didn't charge me to have the pants lengthened, I thought they had earned at least a bit of forbearance. And when I got the pants back from the tailor, they fit perfectly, so that's that.
I paid $200 for the pants, but it was worth those $13 to not have to have a drawn-out argument, especially when I didn't know whether I was right or not. It's really important to me to have a basis for my own complaints.Now I have another pair of pants, and since I don't have to go back into the office for the rest of the year, I'll get more wear out of them. Full cyberpunk elf aesthetic is a go!
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Date: 2020-Jun-06, Saturday 22:08 (UTC)I think your response was reasonable. To have a second alternation done by the clothing company you'd have to ship the pants back, wait for them to alter them, and then wait to receive them again.