Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

A couple of years ago, I had a closet full of 34×32 pants that fit just fine. I still have some of those pants today, and they fit now just as well as the day I bought them.

About a year ago, I tried on some 34×32 pants and they were too small. I had to buy 36×32 pants instead. They fit the same as the 34×32 pants that were, and still are, in my closet.

Today I bought some new pants. The 36×32 pants were too small. I had to buy 38×32 pants. They fit the same as the 36×32 pants I wore to the store when I purchased the new ones.

I now have three different sizes of pants in my closet that all fit the same. What the hell is going on? Has something changed with the sizes? Are they measuring something different, or have the units become smaller? I know for a fact that I’m not any bigger, partially because I own several mirrors, and partially because the pants size that is now too small still fits me from a couple of years ago. I’m at a total loss to explain it.