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Why is it that every pair of male slacks that I own seem to have a hole in the crotch? I mean, they just come apart at the seams...
Sorry, I'm just ranting and confused by this...
Samantha
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moist crotch?
Do you have a moist crotch? Your pants may be literally rotting if you do which makes the crotch fall apart. Wear a panty liner in your underwear.
Reasons for moist crotch = external yeast infection. This is noticeable rather rauncy smell do a search on male yeast infection for more info. Anti bacterial dish soap can fix this.
Excessive hormonal discharge - Think along the lines of putting out way too many signals your ready to mate. This is common to transgendered people. The body is trying and failing to let the world know what sex you are.
Not Moist Crotch
Nope. I think it's more of the fact that it seems that one is unable to purchase anything that is designed to last anymore...
friction
you could just be getting friction where the legs rub as you walk, or they are passing off cheap material and its a stress point for motion.
It's shoes with me...
Barely last 6 months - probably closer to 4 - before the heel end of the upper starts separating from the sole below; the fabric at the back of the heel starts to pull away from the leather; the insole separates from the sole and the base of the sole wears through revealing the air pocket underneath. OK, so they're only ordinary £25 ones from a supermarket, but would more expensive ones last significantly longer?
There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't...
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
perhaps
When I was wearing ill-fitting male footwear, my stress point was where the laces meet the toe. I'd always wear a hole in that spot long before any of the rest of the shoe had problems.
If I bought el cheapo's, they'd fall apart in a few months or so, if I bought slightly better ones, they'd last about a year. The really expensive ones would last a year and a half to two years before I'd tear that hole.
Haven't been wearing women's shoes long enough yet to be able to tell you how they're gunna do in comparison.
Well, my work boots are getting well worn in very quickly, but then I'm on my feet in them all day at work, do a lot of walking around, and often carry heavy things while walking around. I expect them not to last more than the season before I'm back to using athletics late next spring, and expect to go through at least two pair of work athletics next year.
Abigail Drew.
Abigail Drew.
I'm hard on shoes as well...
Go through two pair in a roughly four month season... The pair I have now seems like they may last me into the start of the spring season...
Men's pants are weird.
If you look carefully, the way that men's crotches and women's crotches are sewn is inverted. For me, at least, women's pant crotches seem to hold up waaay better.
Men's crotches are also sewn with less spacing between the leg holes, which I personally think is what causes the problems rather than the inversion. On rougher pants, it tears holes in your underwear and then starts causing no end of chafing for you. Back when I was wearing men's pants, at first, I'd use baby powder with talc on my crotch and upper thigh, caking it on, and re-apply it like three times a day! Then, when I first started leaking, I bought some women's undergarments - panties and those thigh and waist shapers. I found that between them, my legs were sufficiently protected, until they wore out from being chafed in place of me, and I had to replace them.
When I started wearing purely female pants, all the problems disappeared, and I bought some seriously heavy duty work jeans.
Abigail Drew.
EDIT: BTW, leaking is what I call it for when I started to let small bits of myself out of repression, a little at a time. It is not anything to do with anything physical. Just to clarify, in case there was any confusion, because the way it was originally written, my comment could have been very confusing!
Abigail Drew.
I'm still wearing trousers ...
... I bought over 20 years ago. My Rohan Hot Bags have needed repair but only on the knees and I'm reluctant to part with them because they're great for Winter walking. I have loads of other clothes the same age. The only things I really wear out are cycling shorts which end up for Winter wear under training tights because they're rather more revealing than modesty or decency permits :) I've got cycling jersys that are still wearable (though a bit faded) that are 40 years old.
My trousers usually have to be discarded because they've had too much glue/oil etc spilt on them. Thin super glue can ruin a pair of trousers in an instant as well as making them difficult to remove LOL
Shoes are the same and I walk a lot. I usually walk the 2 or 3 miles into the nearby market town. Because some newer boots have split I've returned to using a pair I had to discard because I developed a bunion that must be over 15 years and many miles old. Again, it's cycling shoes that get replaced rather than ordinary ones.
I think I must either be very easy on clothes, not very clothes conscious or merely tight-fisted :) The latter is most likely. I have split trousers in the past but it's been because I've overindulged in cream cakes, I think.
Robi
I used to have that problem
I used to have that problem with my pants. Then I started getting ones that *fit*.
Y'see, I'd been getting jeans that sort of fit on my hips, and under the small gut I had back then. But that meant that the crotch of the pants was a couple inches below my actual crotch. So the fabric rubbed against itself there and failed quickly.
At some point, I started getting pants that fit up at my actual waist. And since the crotch seam was now up where it was supposed to be, the rubbing went away.
Now the jeans last until the fabric on the front of the thighs starts to go. Which takes about 6 times as long. The pants last for years rather than 6-8 months.
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exactly!
It's all about fit, and male pants don't fit!
They never really did for me... I never wore them below my actual waist except for a very short time before switching to female pants, when I was starting to try to hide my figure while I was losing weight. However, being at or not at your waist isn't the only thing that can cause the fabric to rub in ways it shouldn't.
As I mentioned above, female pants have a wider set crotch, as in, the way the seams are sewn. Male pants have that bump to allow for the male parts to fit, instead of being flat, but that's not related... that's in the front of the crotch, not under. And it's under that makes all the difference for me.
When I'd move about in male pants, the crotch would rub side to side, since my bones were too widely set for the set of the seams of male pants. This would cause me to chafe, my underwear to wear out faster, and the pants themselves to wear out faster, though not quite as much so.
Now, wearing female pants and underclothes, everything fits right. Well, not QUITE, because I do still have the male bits, but squeezing them up into me works pretty well. But the fit of the underside of the crotch on female clothes is RIGHT.
Consequently, now, when I move about wearing female underclothes and pants, nothing moves down there, it stays exactly where I put it when I last arranged myself after going to the bathroom.
... I have found a better way to tuck, and I do have to be wearing the right size of panties. I've heard people recommend sizing down to hold a tuck better, and maybe that is correct for some, or even most, of us, but for me, I seem to have the best tuck when I'm wearing EXACTLY the right size panty.
Curious about your starting to get ones that fit... Did you switch from male pants to female ones as well?
Abigail Drew.
Abigail Drew.