RatherAnOddball
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HOW CAN I GET DOZENS OF EXTRA ZIPPERS ADDED TO MY PANTS THAT WOULD BE STYLIN YO
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Thanks for reading, very much appreciate your help.
Before I get into the inane and insipid series of questions regarding what's possible through alteration, let's address the more fundamental query of how to find what I want in RTW/OTR and thusly dispense with the need to get alterations of those sorts at all. Or, if it's a bit unrealistic to expect anything this exacting through RTW/OTR (or anything close) then maybe you can point me to some website like MyTailor or Jantzen that'll handle an order for trousers much in the same fashion that those two websites fill orders for shirts and suits.
I'm after a pretty particular style of trousers, and not having much luck at it. Here's a list of the qualities I'm after, and if you could suggest brands that offer these, and, if you please, maybe some websites or persons tending to have good deals on them, I'd be very much obliged. So far I've just bought all my trousers from STP when I can stack coupons/discounts.
1. "Go to hell" colors/patterns. Both at once, if possible. The poor saleswoman from Trinidad-and-Tobago at the RL outlet was very upset when she misunderstood the nature of what I was trying to convey to her when I requested such trousers in response to her typical greeting offer of help finding something. Whoops.
2. Rise sufficient to place the waistband just above the belly-button, or higher. I'm awfully short, you see, and like to elongate the visual impression of my legs are long yes they're very very long.
3. Who needs pockets? So as few, and as near-to-shut, as possible, please.
4. Tapering, but not tight.
5. French fly.
6. Side tabs, and/or a fishtail waistband in the back for proper braces.
7. iPod connectivity, to trigger playback of musical tracks of my choice upon removal of my pants. Like a grand Roman fanfare, or maybe a slidewhistle, or Barry White.
8. I'm undecided on the whole pleats thing, so either flat or pleated is fine, so long as the pleat is a single. If I weren't going to wear braces, I'd definitely go flat front, but...
Okay, eight's a good number, we'll stop here.
Now about alterations, each question regarding which is basically a reiteration of the features that I asked about above, so you could really skip the rest and just tell me what alterations are possible/sensible to turn a typical pair of belt-looped trousers into something more like what I want.
First I was wondering whether the waistband of a typical pair of trousers can be altered to become side-tab trousers? I've not owned a pair of side-tabs so I'm not familiar with the interface between the function of the tabs and the waistband itself.
Same question again, but replace mention of "side tabs" with "fishtail back," like for a proper pair of braces.
Yet again, can a pair of trousers be altered to taper?
Can a zip fly be turned into a button fly?
All right, thanks a million, take it easy.
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Thanks for reading, very much appreciate your help.
Before I get into the inane and insipid series of questions regarding what's possible through alteration, let's address the more fundamental query of how to find what I want in RTW/OTR and thusly dispense with the need to get alterations of those sorts at all. Or, if it's a bit unrealistic to expect anything this exacting through RTW/OTR (or anything close) then maybe you can point me to some website like MyTailor or Jantzen that'll handle an order for trousers much in the same fashion that those two websites fill orders for shirts and suits.
I'm after a pretty particular style of trousers, and not having much luck at it. Here's a list of the qualities I'm after, and if you could suggest brands that offer these, and, if you please, maybe some websites or persons tending to have good deals on them, I'd be very much obliged. So far I've just bought all my trousers from STP when I can stack coupons/discounts.
1. "Go to hell" colors/patterns. Both at once, if possible. The poor saleswoman from Trinidad-and-Tobago at the RL outlet was very upset when she misunderstood the nature of what I was trying to convey to her when I requested such trousers in response to her typical greeting offer of help finding something. Whoops.
2. Rise sufficient to place the waistband just above the belly-button, or higher. I'm awfully short, you see, and like to elongate the visual impression of my legs are long yes they're very very long.
3. Who needs pockets? So as few, and as near-to-shut, as possible, please.
4. Tapering, but not tight.
5. French fly.
6. Side tabs, and/or a fishtail waistband in the back for proper braces.
7. iPod connectivity, to trigger playback of musical tracks of my choice upon removal of my pants. Like a grand Roman fanfare, or maybe a slidewhistle, or Barry White.
8. I'm undecided on the whole pleats thing, so either flat or pleated is fine, so long as the pleat is a single. If I weren't going to wear braces, I'd definitely go flat front, but...
Okay, eight's a good number, we'll stop here.
Now about alterations, each question regarding which is basically a reiteration of the features that I asked about above, so you could really skip the rest and just tell me what alterations are possible/sensible to turn a typical pair of belt-looped trousers into something more like what I want.
First I was wondering whether the waistband of a typical pair of trousers can be altered to become side-tab trousers? I've not owned a pair of side-tabs so I'm not familiar with the interface between the function of the tabs and the waistband itself.
Same question again, but replace mention of "side tabs" with "fishtail back," like for a proper pair of braces.
Yet again, can a pair of trousers be altered to taper?
Can a zip fly be turned into a button fly?
All right, thanks a million, take it easy.
