The Curse of the Over-Priced Over-Praised Pants

warning: angry rant about pants ahead

if you know me well. you know how much i hate shopping deep down inside my heart. for anything besides socks & sweaters, really. this is just another log to add to the fire....

let me make this perfectly clear: i HATE norstroms. HATE it.

i don't care what you say, it is NOT the best store, and although they have *supposedly* great customer service i have never found their products nor service to be of any acclaim.

let me illustrate:

behold: the curse of the nordstrom's pant suit!!

let me break this down for you:
Last weekend November 08: go to the-store-who-shall-not-be-named in LV and purchase pants & a coordinating suit jacket for OUTRAGEOUS price. receive help from a kind but middle-aged, fashion-clueless, and only somewhat-helpful woman named something like "bonita" or "betty."

December 08: 2.5 WEEKS later i receive pants after tailoring; after they assured me they would arrive in ONE week. only to discover they are tailored about an INCH too short and BONUS you can actually SEE the stiching on the front of the pants where i had them pin & remove the space left for some kind of child-bearing pouch & poochiness.
i wear them anyway for a week bc i have client's coming in the office.

Jan 09: Bring back to TSWSNBN in CA. HIDEOUS, RUDE, middle-younger-middle-aged woman "helps" me when i bring them back to redo the tailoring i paid for. leave store very angry.

2 days later go back to pick them up & i tell the nice looking young saleswoman i am there to pick up pants i just had tailored. (with a nice attitude & smile bc its not THIS girl's fault...)LITERALLY she picks them up & hands them to me without a word but sorta smiles. NOT ONE word. (i think to "myself... okay.. weird. whatever. at least she smiled.")

Today February 09: about to burn TSWSNBN. stupid stupid pants. the ENTIRE left leg hem has just come undone while i'm a work. my pants are now being secured at their desired length by PACKING TAPE. and... BONUS! the lining on the RIGHT leg has come unsecured and is now causing a weird pull on the one side which makes me pant leg not hang straight.

i have a 2.6 million dollar client i talk to about everyday, coming in TODAY after lunch.

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DILEMMA:

do i DARE go back into TSWSNBN and have them redo all the problems?

do i demand an entire NEW pair of pants, only to wait for 2 weeks for them to be hemmed AGAIN?

or do i hem them myself at home bc i'm so en-angered?

stupid pants from TSWSNBN. curses.

ok. i'm done now.