Shopping for jeans (i)
Shopping for a pair of jeans is a very simple task I used to think. U just needed to get the the waist size and colour right. This view of mine has slowly been taken apart over the years.
First one was the incident at HSS Gurgaon. There was a place near the Delhi Haryana border called Mahipalpur. Here you had shops where could get a lot of branded stuff at factory prices. However since there was a scarcity of space these shops did not have a trial room. I and my friend P had gone there to get a pair of jeans for P. Once there P realized that he was not too keen to buy something that he had not tried on since there were just too many brands to select from. So we pleaded with the shop owner and he asked us to use the terrace. So to the terrace we went and with me standing guard my friend tried on the jeans. After a few trials he selected one and as we went down he saw a pair identical to the one that he had selected but of a more preferable colour. So he ditched the one he had selected after so much effort and took the other one. What the heck.. it was of the same waist size, length and brand.
That was a big mistake for even though everything else was same, it was lacking a zipper. Instead of that it had a button fly!! Jeans with buttons instead of a zipper were as good as a lungi with a zipper. Par kya karein, since we had already paid for the same we could not go back and return it. Some days later after P had convinced himself to wear it(I'm sure it was tough), he came to office wearing it. We had one heck of a rowdy gang at office. As soon as a guy noticed this new fashion he burst out laughing. Soon the entire junta began commenting on this and P was the butt of all jokes. One guy reasoned out that P's proclivity for buttons instead of a zipper had something to do with an accidental pull in the loo.( Yeah.. everyone said, if you were in a hurry then the zipper could cause a lot of pain if u were not careful). Another one was visualising a romantic scene oft repeated in Hindi movies of a wife sewing on her husband's missing button BUT with a difference ;) . Hajaar things, but we had a hell of a laugh. P however defended his decision for a while through all this. That was until a guy said that jeans with buttons were actually worn by girls......
That was it.. P never again wore that pair. So that is a thing that I watch out for now while buying a pair of jeans.
First one was the incident at HSS Gurgaon. There was a place near the Delhi Haryana border called Mahipalpur. Here you had shops where could get a lot of branded stuff at factory prices. However since there was a scarcity of space these shops did not have a trial room. I and my friend P had gone there to get a pair of jeans for P. Once there P realized that he was not too keen to buy something that he had not tried on since there were just too many brands to select from. So we pleaded with the shop owner and he asked us to use the terrace. So to the terrace we went and with me standing guard my friend tried on the jeans. After a few trials he selected one and as we went down he saw a pair identical to the one that he had selected but of a more preferable colour. So he ditched the one he had selected after so much effort and took the other one. What the heck.. it was of the same waist size, length and brand.
That was a big mistake for even though everything else was same, it was lacking a zipper. Instead of that it had a button fly!! Jeans with buttons instead of a zipper were as good as a lungi with a zipper. Par kya karein, since we had already paid for the same we could not go back and return it. Some days later after P had convinced himself to wear it(I'm sure it was tough), he came to office wearing it. We had one heck of a rowdy gang at office. As soon as a guy noticed this new fashion he burst out laughing. Soon the entire junta began commenting on this and P was the butt of all jokes. One guy reasoned out that P's proclivity for buttons instead of a zipper had something to do with an accidental pull in the loo.( Yeah.. everyone said, if you were in a hurry then the zipper could cause a lot of pain if u were not careful). Another one was visualising a romantic scene oft repeated in Hindi movies of a wife sewing on her husband's missing button BUT with a difference ;) . Hajaar things, but we had a hell of a laugh. P however defended his decision for a while through all this. That was until a guy said that jeans with buttons were actually worn by girls......
That was it.. P never again wore that pair. So that is a thing that I watch out for now while buying a pair of jeans.
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