No More Big & Tall

I've lost a little bit of weight lately and as a result most of my jeans don't fit me very well anymore. Ironically I just bought 3 brand new pairs of jeans a couple of months ago just as I was starting to lose the weight. So, now I have three pairs of jeans that fit me very loosely. Anyway, I'm about to head out on a road trip where I will be doing a lot of hiking and I wanted to get some new jeans that fit me. I was previously wearing a 46x30 which has required me to shop in the big and tall section of most stores.

So, when I went shopping for new jeans today I went straight to the Big and Tall section. I grabbed a pair of jeans that were one size smaller, 44x30, and headed off to the fitting room. To my surprise, the new jeans still fit a little (just a tiny bit) loose. Just to amuse myself, I thought that I would try on a pair of 42x30 jeans. I returned back to the Big and Tall section to look for the smaller size and discovered something very pleasant after spending several minutes rummaging through Levi's. It occurred to me that I had just graduated out of the Big and Tall sizes back into the normal sized people sizes which were kept in an entirely different section of the store (who knows what kind of havoc would be unleashed if the big and/or tall people intermingled with the normal sized people).

As it turns out, the 42x30's were a little (just a tiny bit) snug but nowhere near as snug as I've worn some jeans in the past. So, I decided to buy them anyway. Actually I bought both pairs of jeans. I will probably take the 44x30's on my trip with me and hope that over the course of 17 days of rigorous hiking and riding that I will drop that extra half a size and fit perfectly into the non Big & Tall 42x30 jeans when I return.