A Major Advantage of Kilts Over Pants

**cloves** · 5th March 07, 09:51 PM

Originally Posted by mudd

I always thought this was a case of the tailor being polite when preparing to take an inseam measurement and deciding which leg to use so not to disturb anything.

yeah, all along that's what I thought too. I just figured they asked so they'd stay away while measuring you.

**Kid Cossack** · 5th March 07, 12:11 PM

Hmm, you know, that gives the old boot camp line about "Dress right . . . DRESS!" a whole different meme.

**davedove** · 5th March 07, 12:16 PM

Originally Posted by Kid Cossack

Hmm, you know, that gives the old boot camp line about "Dress right . . . DRESS!" a whole different meme.

I can picture a whole formation of recruits "adjusting" themselves simultaneously.

**Fearnest** · 5th March 07, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by davedove

I can picture a whole formation of recruits "adjusting" themselves simultaneously.

The horror...

**Skweres** · 5th March 07, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by davedove

I can picture a whole formation of recruits "adjusting" themselves simultaneously.

that just isnt right

**angel923** · 5th March 07, 01:23 PM

hey it would look like a baseball game only in camo or dress greens, whites, or blues.

**cavscout** · 5th March 07, 02:15 PM

We don't hear much about it because for MOST men it's not an issue. For the rest.....well.....we wear kilts

**ccga3359** · 5th March 07, 02:17 PM

I wonder why none of my high-end tailors has felt the need to ask me tha...
Ah yeah! I agree with Ron!

**McClef** · 5th March 07, 04:44 PM

Linked and allied to this issue is the lack of need to take an inside leg measurement!

**Fearnest** · 5th March 07, 07:21 PM

MBA Style magazine's
Tips on Buying Interview Suits

The suit is the vehicle by which you create a first impression, says Norman Fryman, former CEO of The Grief Companies and current consultant to Bidermann, manufacturers of tailored men's clothing. He goes on to explain that a suit's silhouette, drape, and color provoke a conscious thought in the mind of the recruiter of what you are all about.

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Trouser Rise The rise is the vertical area between your waistband and your crotch. If your waistband is not resting over your hips, you need a higher (longer) rise. Men who are well endowed by their creator will either dress-left or dress-right. Most men is the U.S. dress-left, so most suits have a tad more width on the upper left leg of the trouser, near the crotch. And while we are on the subject of endowment, full pleats are especially good for those buyers with fuller abdomens. Unless you're dressing like M.C. Hammer, your interview suit trouser leg will have 19 inches of fabric surrounding your knee, and 17 1/2 inches surrounding your ankle (thus you have a tapered trouser leg). The inseam is the length between a man's crotch and the cuffs of his pants. The break is where the cuffs of the pants lightly crumble into the front of the shoe.

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