Understood...I'll explain it this way.

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Understood...I'll explain it this way.

Jody — 11/1/2007 12:35:50 PM (archived)

I often buy mens' jeans/shorts because I am long in the torso. I take a 30 waist (I prefer 31-32 because I like loose)

All things being equal, a womens' 16 would be the equvalent of a 36-38 mens'.

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Quality Control - Jody - 10/31/2007 5:12:03 PM
- Yoo Hoo, Podrock... - Jody - 11/2/2007 10:05:24 PM
  - Bunting - podrock - 11/3/2007 3:19:49 AM
    - (something in a corrected link?) - podrock - 11/3/2007 3:22:35 AM
- Do you live in Seattle, RobVG? - Jody - 11/2/2007 7:22:37 PM
  - We need to address this stitchuation (n/t) - Jody - 11/2/2007 7:28:27 PM
    - Let 'er rip! (n/t) - Jody - 11/2/2007 7:29:19 PM
- One thing's for certain: this is not an immaterial thread (n/t) - Fox - 11/2/2007 5:39:17 PM
- Heh - Eri - 11/2/2007 2:40:58 AM
- Upon Jody's Clothes - ER - 11/2/2007 2:01:01 AM
  - A HEM!!! - Jody - 11/2/2007 3:34:58 AM
- Love is not love,which alters when it alteration finds. (n/t) - ER - 11/2/2007 1:53:46 AM
- I have to go baste my Tailors' Ham. (n/t) - Jody - 11/2/2007 12:55:21 AM
  - "Euripides?" - Fox - 11/2/2007 5:42:24 PM
    - LOL!!..Suits me!! (n/t) - Jody - 11/2/2007 6:19:06 PM
- re: Well darning this basting thread is turning into a tapestry, which could be made into a quilt. - SteveS - 11/2/2007 12:44:30 AM
  - Did I ruffle your feathers? (n/t) - Jody - 11/2/2007 7:31:21 PM
    - re: Itâ€™s appliquÃ©, a tatting brocade of a thread ;-) (n/t) - SteveS - 11/2/2007 8:38:11 PM
- Do I still owe you that quarter, Roy? (n/t) - Jody - 11/2/2007 12:41:40 AM
- Quit raglan on me!!! (n/t) - Jody - 11/2/2007 12:40:54 AM
  - re: LOL - Don't get crossed stiched! All this simplicity's getting crewel. LOL (n/t) - Marcia - 11/3/2007 9:53:49 PM
- It's just a minor case of textile dysfunction. (n/t) - ER - 11/1/2007 11:42:11 PM
- A plethora of posts and no one gets the point? (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/1/2007 11:12:48 PM
- There sure has been a serge of posts on this thread! (n/t) - Laurie Street - 11/1/2007 10:28:13 PM
- Another thread where everyone gets to needle everyone else. (n/t) - RNE - 11/1/2007 9:22:39 PM
  - Are you ribbon me? (n/t) - Jody - 11/2/2007 6:55:17 PM
    - Nah...you are just gettin' my coat. (n/t) - Jody - 11/2/2007 7:04:45 PM
      - Sequin run. Sequin jump. Sequin hop. Sequin fall. (n/t) - Jody - 11/2/2007 7:24:14 PM
- Even after being married for almost 15 years I still don't understand women sizes. - REB - 10/31/2007 9:29:11 PM
  - Understood...I'll explain it this way. - Jody - 11/1/2007 12:35:50 PM
  - Evidently I *twill* never understand either! - Jody - 10/31/2007 10:42:12 PM
    - Size deflation: like grade inflation, only backwards - Mary Anne - 11/1/2007 2:01:16 AM
      - Makes sense!...I am at ease now...Thank You! (n/t) - Jody - 11/1/2007 2:16:34 AM
      - No, I'm just wool-gathering. (n/t) - ER - 11/1/2007 2:08:02 AM
        
        Sorry! I meant to patch that on to Jody's "flax" post below. (n/t) - ER - 11/1/2007 2:12:43 AM
        
        You'll mend your ways someday... (n/t) - Mary Anne - 11/1/2007 2:39:59 AM
        
        Are we headed for the sewers with this thread? (n/t) - Jody - 11/2/2007 7:00:42 PM
        
        Button a different note (n/t) - Jody - 11/2/2007 7:03:15 PM
        
        Beads me (n/t) - Jody - 11/2/2007 7:05:27 PM
        
        I have a vested interest in this thread (n/t) - Jody - 11/2/2007 7:38:10 PM
        
        Apparently sew... (n/t) - Fox - 11/3/2007 2:31:51 AM
- Let the seamly puns begin!!!! (n/t) - Jody - 10/31/2007 6:05:36 PM
  - Is that you Jody?...nope...Suede (n/t) - Jody - 11/2/2007 6:58:29 PM
  - Don't mean to needle you... - Fox - 11/1/2007 1:06:14 AM
    - That was quite a yarn! (n/t) - Jody - 11/1/2007 1:11:50 AM
  - We wouldn't dream of hemming you in. (n/t) - ER - 11/1/2007 12:24:09 AM
    - Just don't hold me an arms' length away. (n/t) - Jody - 11/1/2007 7:52:42 PM
  - After all...puns are the veritable fabric of Zoners (n/t) - Jody - 10/31/2007 6:58:21 PM
    - Yeah, we're all cut from the same cloth. (n/t) - ER - 11/1/2007 12:18:35 AM
    - This could be a long thread. (n/t) - Tony - 10/31/2007 7:30:53 PM
      - Yes, but it may keep us in stitches... (n/t) - ARRELL - 10/31/2007 7:34:38 PM
        
        Maybe not, but certainly on pins and needles. (n/t) - ER - 10/31/2007 10:51:44 PM
        
        I am beginning to detect a pattern here. (n/t) - Jody - 11/1/2007 12:24:38 AM
        
        Ye shall rip what thou hast sewn. (n/t) - ER - 11/1/2007 12:26:52 AM
        
        Do I detect some bias here? - Mary Anne - 11/1/2007 1:44:14 AM
        
        It is all by design (n/t) - Jody - 11/1/2007 7:50:01 PM
        
        ARRRGH- I am gonna bolt! (n/t) - ARRELL - 11/1/2007 5:04:20 AM
        
        Be careful!...Don't dart out in traffic! (n/t) - Jody - 11/1/2007 11:16:22 AM
        
        Weave got to stop this (n/t) - ARRELL - 11/1/2007 3:33:18 PM
        
        It's a pattern. (n/t) - podrock - 11/1/2007 9:32:32 PM
        
        Are you skirting the issue? (n/t) - Jody - 11/1/2007 7:25:19 PM
        
        I am enjoying the virtual interfacing (n/t) - Jody - 11/1/2007 7:20:31 PM
        
        Darn!...I just satin bubble gum... (n/t) - Jody - 11/1/2007 7:19:44 PM
        
        Weave got Mary Anne back! (n/t) - ER - 11/1/2007 1:51:16 AM
        
        Jus' bob-bob-bobbin along... (n/t) - Fox - 11/1/2007 12:58:50 AM
        
        Shear audacity. (n/t) - ER - 11/1/2007 1:38:24 AM
        
        Are you giving her flax? (n/t) - Jody - 11/1/2007 2:01:01 AM
        
        No. I don't cotton to none of that. (n/t) - ER - 11/1/2007 2:15:13 AM
        
        Understood...my Aunt Polly Esther always did. (n/t) - Jody - 11/1/2007 2:18:11 AM
        
        You're WARPed, so...Fox must be WOOFed... (n/t) - ER - 11/1/2007 2:27:02 AM
        
        I am from a *parallel warp*!! (n/t) - Jody - 11/1/2007 2:43:28 AM
        
        I arrived here by shuttle (n/t) - Jody - 11/1/2007 2:44:57 AM
        
        Your trip went smooth as silk? (n/t) - Eri - 11/1/2007 2:52:59 AM
        
        It's smoother to turn the transporter ray on. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 11/1/2007 2:57:02 AM
        
        Wouldn't our time be better spent discussing the looming threat of Muslin fundamentalists? (n/t) - Arrell - 11/1/2007 3:36:22 PM
        
        There is nothing left to selvage with them (n/t) - Jody - 11/1/2007 7:27:48 PM
        
        Space still looms large, even in this thread. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 11/1/2007 2:49:09 AM
        
        Darn! (n/t) - ER - 11/1/2007 2:55:53 AM
        
        Hah! You're no seer, sucker! (n/t) - Mary Anne - 11/1/2007 2:58:06 AM
        
        Isn't this more fun than arguments between bight and weft? (n/t) - ER - 11/1/2007 2:48:02 AM
        
        Definitely!....It becomes tedious trying to iron out issues. (n/t) - Jody - 11/1/2007 11:23:59 AM
        
        Especially if you have other, more pressing, concerns. (n/t) - ER - 11/1/2007 2:43:17 PM
        
        Uh oh..this thread is going to taper off to the right again! (n/t) - Jody - 11/1/2007 2:58:43 AM
        
        I will measure and shoulder the responsibility of getting the thread to fit (n/t) - Jody - 11/1/2007 3:00:54 AM
        
        Don't worry, it will ride up with wear. (n/t) - ER - 11/1/2007 3:20:18 AM
        
        Okay..but at times I am still aFRAYED (n/t) - Jody - 11/1/2007 11:17:42 AM
        
        But I will continue to *press*on (n/t) - Jody - 11/1/2007 11:20:36 AM
        
        As long as you don't fold up on us. (n/t) - ER - 11/1/2007 6:50:13 PM
        
        I won't...but I am going to go take a nap (n/t) - Jody - 11/1/2007 7:54:06 PM
        
        ...spinning out of control... (n/t) - podrock - 11/1/2007 9:30:10 PM
        
        Crease, Crease, I'm pleating with you,,,stop this madness! (n/t) - ER - 11/1/2007 11:39:33 PM
        
        Line 'em up, and I'll cuff 'em but good (n/t) - Fox - 11/2/2007 1:38:32 AM
        
        This thread seems to be wearing out (n/t) - Eri - 11/2/2007 2:45:11 AM
        
        Knot this thread! (n/t) - Jody - 11/2/2007 3:37:04 AM
        
        Yeah, let's lace it all up. (n/t) - ER - 11/2/2007 5:20:02 PM
        
        Are you saying it is time for closure? (n/t) - Jody - 11/2/2007 6:20:20 PM
        
        Yeah, zip it up. (n/t) - ER - 11/2/2007 7:41:44 PM
        
        Lets' take a vote...the eyes will have it (n/t) - Jody - 11/2/2007 6:53:34 PM
        
        Now you're just pushing my buttons. (n/t) - ER - 11/2/2007 7:40:18 PM
        
        Well, snap to, then! (n/t) - Eri - 11/3/2007 2:48:49 AM

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