Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for August 29, 2024

Just like my hand is going to show your hind end something!

if they fit that ginormous noggin of his, they’re way too big for his waist

Since when is ANY boy that age iterested in clothes shopping?

Stupid kid! Pants goes on your legs, not your head!

My mother made a lot of my clothes. If she didn’t make them she got them from the Sears catalog. She ordered them on the phone hanging on the wall. I did not have many choices.

Kids that age don’t go in store dressing rooms.

two men clothes shopping – what could go wrong?

Just buy him the first five pairs of pants that fit him and leave.

Doesn’t look like he’s in much of a clothes-wearing mood.

I’m struggling to remember the last time I tried something on in a store’s dressing room. These days I order a new article of clothing from a certain online retail leviathan. If it doesn’t fit, I send it straight back, no muss no fuss no worry. If it does, I order it in a bunch of different colors.

What the heck? My boys were very opinionated about what they would wear — from an early age. The one who couldn’t control himself in the store so I had to bring home clothes for him to try on — that one as a teenager could spend ridiculous amounts of time checking every shirt in the store for style and how it felt.

I hate trying-on.

Hammy behave!!!

You were warned Darryl.

One day Hammie will be in his teens with his own style, hopefully by then the pants with a belt that sits way below the waist will have gone out of style and he’s out of those tighty whities.

Well, Hamish, the faster you cooperate, the faster you’ll be out of the store (and you might even wangle an ice cream on the way home!)

Perfect, now buy five pairs and a couple of shirts and out the door.

I rarely try on anything in the store except when I suspect I’ve put on enough pounds to change to a larger size.

I can walk through the men’s section, look around and decide if there is anything I would like to wear. If not, I go someplace else. I know what I like, so I don’t have to see how it looks on me.

My biggest problem is I am not tall, so the shortest pant length in my waist size is usually an inch too long. Same with sleeve length, generally longer than I really need for my neck/torso/waist, so I just have to keep the sleeve buttoned and let it bunch up a bit.

Ordering online is usually better for find the size I need, but not always.

Hi

Ya think?

I don’t remember what shopping was like as a kid. That was too long ago. As an adult, I go into the store knowing exactly what I want and if I find it, I’m done and out of the store quickly. The last few years of my wife’s life, she no longer drove, so I had to take her shopping. She tired easily, so she was ready to go home after one store, usually with nothing bought.

My philosphy about clothes shopping (unless it’s for a T-Shirt) is once every ten years whether I need to or not.