Are Your Pants Lying To You?
 

Reporter Abram Sauer found a pair of Old Navy pants labeled as a 36 inch waist that were in fact 41 inches wide. A pair of 36 inch Dockers clocked in at 39.5 and Haggar and Gap were both selling 39 inch pants as 36.

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looks like menswear is finally embracing women's wear sales tactics

my pants usually don't talk to me.

Yup

I know that American Eagle is for sure. I generally wear a 32 in every store. When I buy a 32 at AE they are wayyy to loose.