Why are they irregular?
mm
For years I've been buying Fruit-of-the=loom Jockey shorts, in
packages of three, colored, usually like one green, one blue, and one
grey pair per package.
Irregulars.
I thought I would be able to see what made them irregular and it would
be some stitching or something, and maybe I'm not a good inspector,
but I've never seen anything wrong with them.
What I do notice is that they seem to start getting a hole in them
after as early as the second time I wash them. And I only wear them
one day and then they go into the laundry. And I use warm water for
wash and cold for rinse, and the lowest temp above plain air for
drying. (I use the same temps for everything, to make it simple.)
Is this what makes them irregular?
I can imagine that they had a bad batch of cloth once, and they might
have made 10's of thousands of these and can only sell so many
irregulars in one month or year. But I bought some more years later,
and it was the same as before.
What do you think is going on?
I should buy some regulars and see if there is any difference, but
there's a complicated reason I don't have time, and I would still want
to ask you here anyhow.
How many times could I wash these if they were not irregulars, without
getting holes in them.
If you are inclined to email me
for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)
George
> Am I getting a bargain or the opposite?
>
> For years I've been buying Fruit-of-the=loom Jockey shorts, in
> packages of three, colored, usually like one green, one blue, and one
> grey pair per package.
>
> Irregulars.
>
> I thought I would be able to see what made them irregular and it would
> be some stitching or something, and maybe I'm not a good inspector,
> but I've never seen anything wrong with them.
>
> What I do notice is that they seem to start getting a hole in them
> after as early as the second time I wash them. And I only wear them
> one day and then they go into the laundry. And I use warm water for
> wash and cold for rinse, and the lowest temp above plain air for
> drying. (I use the same temps for everything, to make it simple.)
>
> Is this what makes them irregular?
>
> I can imagine that they had a bad batch of cloth once, and they might
> have made 10's of thousands of these and can only sell so many
> irregulars in one month or year. But I bought some more years later,
> and it was the same as before.
If there was defective fabric in the past there is no reason why there
couldn't be defective fabric on a later production run.
hchi...@hotmail.com
wrote:
>What I do notice is that they seem to start getting a hole in them
>after as early as the second time I wash them. And I only wear them
>one day and then they go into the laundry. And I use warm water for
>wash and cold for rinse, and the lowest temp above plain air for
>drying. (I use the same temps for everything, to make it simple.)
>
>Is this what makes them irregular?
Perhaps the problem could be if you eat spicey foods, and _you_ are
irregular...
I think it would be a great marketing gimmick for some company to make
briefs with three leg holes in them, and then every once in a while
toss one into a package of "irregulars."
I gave up on buying irregulars after buying a dress shirt that had two
left sleeves. It looked normal in the package, but the cuff and
buttons were screwed up.
George Grapman
If you get to the point where another person sees your underwear is
irregular it should not matter.
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i think those are usually classified as seconds. irregulars shouldn't have
really bad problems, but seconds often do.
Dennis
>I think it would be a great marketing gimmick for some company to make
>briefs with three leg holes in them, and then every once in a while
>toss one into a package of "irregulars."
Even better if they put the fly in the back. :-)
>
>I gave up on buying irregulars after buying a dress shirt that had two
>left sleeves. It looked normal in the package, but the cuff and
>buttons were screwed up.
I got a shirt like that once, too. Whenever I wore it, I rolled up
the sleeves and no one was the wiser.
Dennis (evil)
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Don K
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> I gave up on buying irregulars after buying a dress shirt that had two
> left sleeves. It looked normal in the package, but the cuff and
> buttons were screwed up.
As opposed to button-down?
That would be confusing.
Parallax
I hear the matching pants are a big hit with bad dancers.
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irregular. I figured for $10 I could wear it around the house. It had
very visible stitching problems around the right shoulder. I wore it
regularly with a jacket and tie and no one ever knew.
mm
>On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:30:27 -0400, hchi...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>>I think it would be a great marketing gimmick for some company to make
>>briefs with three leg holes in them, and then every once in a while
>>toss one into a package of "irregulars."
>
>Even better if they put the fly in the back. :-)
I had a pair like that once, but I wore them backwards and that seemed
to work ok.
>
>>
>>I gave up on buying irregulars after buying a dress shirt that had two
>>left sleeves. It looked normal in the package, but the cuff and
>>buttons were screwed up.
>
>I got a shirt like that once, too. Whenever I wore it, I rolled up
>the sleeves and no one was the wiser.
I like to buy jewelry and clothes when I travel because they don't
break when you mail them back, and I bought a couple shirts in
Czechoslovakia in 1973 and the cuffs were wrong, but I was able to
just move the buttons somewhere and they worked.
>Dennis (evil)
mm
>On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:21:10 -0400, mm <NOPSAM...@bigfoot.com>
>wrote:
>
>>What I do notice is that they seem to start getting a hole in them
>>after as early as the second time I wash them. And I only wear them
>>one day and then they go into the laundry. And I use warm water for
>>wash and cold for rinse, and the lowest temp above plain air for
>>drying. (I use the same temps for everything, to make it simple.)
>>
>>Is this what makes them irregular?
>
>Perhaps the problem could be if you eat spicey foods, and _you_ are
>irregular...
Well, the first hole is right in the middle in the rear, and I did
think about that. But my diet is average. Maybe I should check with
a cdoctor anyhow.
But the other holes follow soon after the first one.
>
>I think it would be a great marketing gimmick for some company to make
>briefs with three leg holes in them, and then every once in a while
>toss one into a package of "irregulars."
What would they do with the others?
Melissa
"mm" <NOPSAM...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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We bought some Jockey underwear for my husband at an Outlet store. I am
pretty sure all the stuff they sold there was marked "irregular". They sure
were...one leg hole was VERY different in size than the other. They were
unusable. We didn't return them because of the distance to drive back, they
just went in the rag bag.
I've bought irregular Gold Toe socks a few times, but they were fine. I
never did figure out why they were considered irregular.
Melissa
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>I've bought irregular Gold Toe socks a few times, but they were fine. I
>never did figure out why they were considered irregular.
>
>Melissa
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May have simply been an overstock where they could sell them at a
discount without effecting their retail selling price.