New pants!!

Ok, not really. But it sure feels like it. Last week, I brought 7 pairs of pants to have altered. 3 shortened, 4 lengthened. 4 from Canada, 3 bought in Taiwan. 2 bought at that store, 5 bought elsewhere. Came to just 5 x 50nt (totalling around $10 cad).

There's an incredible difference between wearing pants that fit well length-wise and those that don't. As I mentioned in a previous blog, a number of pants had shrunk since coming to this island. Wearing short pants garnered a horrible feeling of insecurity as the hem of the pants swing back and forth just below the calcaneus bone, causing me to deliberately try to push them downwards. Longer pants are fine, so long as they can be folded inwards hiding the extra material. But more often than not, after a little bit of movement, the folded piece does fall out or bunch up around the ankle.

After 250nt well spent, I feel like I can walk freely in what feel to be brand new pants. Oh the glory!