Jeans

 Why don't New Zealand retailers want my money?

I only wear jeans in the winter, preferring lighter cotton pants or shorts in the summer.

This week I put on my jeans for the colder weather.

Luckily I use braces to hold my pants up. The jeans, which were slightly on the large size last year are this year quite a bit too large. 

It seems losing 40Kg has some effect on waist size. The tape measure told me at least 6 inches smaller was necessary.

I wandered down to the men's trousers outlets I know of that normally stock fat bastard sizes. None had more than skinny dweeb sizes available and not one had various leg lengths available, even in dweeb sizes.

The fraudulent "We'll shorten them for a fee" industry obviously still goes strong.

Amazon Au are selling me two pair of Wranglers (my preferred brand), with my exact required leg length, for less that $NZ105. delivered (in 8 days according to them).

My now too big Wranglers came from Amazon US - at about the same price.

I would have paid up to $200. in a shop in Nth. Canterbury, now I don't need to.

So, I repeat my question: Why don't New Zealand retailers want my money?

Meanwhile anyone wanting to purchase a couple of pair of used but still good, real-man sized Wranglers (150cm)  give me a yell.