My entire attire has been acquired in Germany

At some point today I realized that, after 10 years here and 20 years away from the States, all my clothes were bought here . Only my shoes were bought back home (size 49 aren’t readily available). My socks, pants, underwear, tee shirt, shirt, sweater, gloves, scarf and hat; all bought here. For sentimental reasons, coupled with issues with style, cut and quality I almost always wore something, if not most items, bought in the States. But now I have assimilated! No going back now !

Let me quess, you now exclusively wear checkered shirts and your pants are way too short?

Mine are still whatever mum sends me from home. Otherwise if it were up to me to brave the nightmare of clothes shopping myself I would be naked.

welcome to the club!! i've only got a couple of things from the UK the rest of my clothes are all bought in germany admittedly i've also been 10 years in germany (nearly 4 in münchen)

doesn't this belong in the personal ads?

PES, I am surprised you manage to find any decent men's clothes here in Munich. I hardly ever find anything decent. Most of my clothes have been bought on various trips to Britain, France, Italy, Canada etc.

I find it especially hard to find trousers (especially jeans) cos I have really short legs compared to these huge teutonic types.

Does it matter where you buy them, apart from price, nothing seems to be made in Europe or USA these days, it's all phillipines, or china etc. I bought some Levi jeans in the states last year, they were cheap but they were made in Columbia!

i have never had any problems and (although no longer a 'trendie') consider myself well dressed and have bough most of my clothes in munich

Same here. I think I have only once bought something here in the past 5 years. Usually i shop when i am abroad. Netherlands, USA, UK, ITaly but not in Munich.

Ok - just don't wear the lederhosen when you go home. A german tourist just might get a way with that - but with and american accent you won't !

well my problem is, as i mentioned, that my legs are too short. You simpy cannot buy jeans here in Germany with an inside leg of 30inch. My size is a 32/33 waiste and 30 leg. I only ever find a decent selection of these sizes in the UK and most recently in Canada. The jeans I buy here either have to be altered (and I hate altered jeans) or flop around on the floor.

Also, when it comes to casual shirts, I find the fashions here appalling. They are either checked or done in the most hideous colours (neon greens and oranges seem to be in fashion at the moment )

Mens's fashion in France is streets ahead of here. On a recent trip to Grenoble I stocked up on a few shirts but now wish I'd bought more.

Rubbish, I've got 30inch legs as well, and last year was the first time I've bought jeans outside of Germany for 20 years and that was only because they were half the price they charge here.
Try Wal Mart.

They have clothes at Walmart?

My last hold out was for 100% cotton boxer shorts that I have always bought at Sears. This year C & A started to offer identical shorts at about half the price (nice designs too).

They sell Levi and Wrangler jeans. So do SUMA.

I have about half and half at the moment...although, I tend to like the European style better than the NA style anyway It´s all so casual back home...unless I were to head to Toronto to shop or something.

I dont like shopping here cos I dont like looking like a german. Tight pants etc, yuck. New Zealanders like loose baggy pants. I do buy a few things at walmart though, cos its so cheap, but then you look like an eastern european instead, which is a bit better than looking like a german I guess. Still cant find anything like the moleskin pants and aertex shirts we all wear at home though...

I have the opposite problem, all the pants here are too short- and man, the flood is over! So, I have to buy back home all the time. I just find the fit here all wrong. Not made for women with long legs, wíde shoulder and boobs. If I try the 'large' size shops, the stuff all hangs like a tent on me... so, I shop in Canada, and get the fit I need.

but shoes are better for me here, as I have size 42 or 11 NA- and those are hard to come by in North America.

Yeah, jeans shopping can be a nightmare. It's rare enough that you see US style measurements like 36/33 (i.e. waist/inside leg in inches). Some of the shops have a conversion chart to tell you how the german sizes translate to US meaures, but there are huge gaps. Anyway the whole system where jeans can be 24, 26, 28, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 98, 100, 102, 104 (and a few more) just seems to defy logic. All I know is that 50 is generally too short and 52 generally too long

I disagree. I've bought jeans in most of the large department stores over the last 6 years or so and have always bought based on the waist/leg measurements on the garment or tags. I don't think I've seen otherwise except in one little jeans shop off Kaufingerstr.

@ persius - well, it's easy, really
26 is the same size as 52, but the leg length is shorter
and 104 is the same size as 52, but with a longer leg length

I think it's quite a good system, myself

German sizes are quite logical, actually.

sizes in the 40's and 50's are standards length leg (32 ich roughly) the 20's are a short leg where a 25 is roughly the same waiste as a 50 but with a shorter leg (usually about 30 inches). The same applies for the long legs in the 90's and 100's.

Top floor. Wal Mart sells everything!

Hmmm, maybe I'll have to bow to the logic of the system - if only I could actually remember it when in the shop. The advantages of the US system is that it's more idiot proof. If you don't know your size, you can measure yourself.
But even still the lack of granularity gets me. I always seem to fall between two sizes.

Which Walmarkt are you talking about, there are 2 aren't there? The one in the Euro Industie Park used to have them on the ground floor between the tvs and the food market. I've not been in for a while so they might have moved them.

well, it it helps a US 32 to 33 waiste with a 30 leg is about a size 24 here in Germany. the same waiste with a 32 leg would be about a 48.

Me too, to big for the regular 46 to small for the 'Big women's' stuff.

what i don't understand is that suits are available in all stores in "short" sizes yet jeans in a 30 leg are almost impossible to find (except Wal Mart it appears but I dread to thikn what styles are available there)

For some reason I find it impossible to get 34-34 or 36-34 jeans. I have a feeling it's because these are the most popular size, but it might just be because germans hate me.

i see those sizes fairly often. I think you are right, though, that they are the most popular sizes here.

I am buy most of my shirts at C&A as they are cheap and every spring they introduce nice designs. I worry about India and their water quality, but that is not a fashion issue ...

I personally prefer to be nude as much as possible.

That explains the pic in your profile, then.
BTW, did you know that another TT member (pardon the pun) has the same pic in his profile?

PES is Andrew?

Aha I knew it...

Nothing to do with Andrew. Hand in fire. All that stuff. Go Lefties!

Well I guess this would be the forum to address this, New Englanders are not the best dressers in the first place...

Call yourself a hippy, a bohemian, an artist... but you ain't styling...

its h-i-p-p-i-e

hippie dippy... Peridodo... you still ain't styling..

"a glimpse of Paradise"

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P-e-r-d-i-d-o damn it man!

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would having a nude picture of myself on my user profile be a violation of TT guidelines?

Cue someone saying "Why don't you fucking read them then and find out"

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No, but it would be a violation of my eyeballs.
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That`s
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I would like to assure you sea-king that I am fully clothed as I post this.

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Thank fuck for that.

ok I have just taken all my clothes off, I hope to God my landlady, her daughter and the other two tenants in the house doesn't come in