Marithe Francois Girbaud was good to me for many years, too many if you ask my wife about it. The size of my thighs started to present me challenges in early high school. While all the cool kids were wearing Levis 501 button flys, I was forced to wear whatever manufacturer made 'carpenter' pants. Then one day along came Girbaud, not only were they cool...but they had 'Brand X'. I loved Brand X, with the straight cut front pockets, big roomy thigh area, and of course the signature rectangle tag across the fly. Problem was..cool equals expensive. Expensive was not a word that described the majority of my wardrobe at the time. Good thing Dad had me detailing cars by then, there were not many other options, my extra cash pitched in for jeans...I had just about every color they made. I even had the jean jacket...with the corduroy collar. My addiction with these jeans lead to me packing several pairs when I relocated to FL and keeping them through aprox 2004. It was about then I was dating my wife when she came over one day and found I had nailed a pair that use to fit me to my bedroom wall as some sort of source of motivation. She was pretty cool about it at the time, today she will tell you in detail how horrified she was at the thought of me wanting to wear them again one day. I really did..I mean want to wear them again. She kindly let me know they were no longer cool and should I get back to that size there are probably other options that would be fun to shop for. That concept became foreign to me, fun to shop for jeans. It became loathsome to even think about it. No 5'11" guy (that isn't a professional body builder) is suppose to have 30" thighs! Thanks to the past 5-6 weeks, I don't have thighs that big anymore. Finally yesterday my wife must have had enough of me still wearing the jeans that fit those thighs. She suggested we go shopping. I agreed but with reservation, even having lost weight I figured I'd proportionally still have the same issue. We hit the store and I gravitate straight to the 'relaxed/comfort' fit section. Next...the dreaded dressing room. To my surprise the relaxed were too relaxed, I..me, fit better in the straight leg. That's something that hasn't happened in MANY years. We grabbed a couple pair and were on our way. As pleasurable as the experience was I'm still pretty scarred from years of frustration, so it may take a few trips over the course of a few months for me to accept that jean shopping no longer needs to be a cause of nightmares. I don't expect to be in the 'skinny jeans' section, ever, but that's for several reasons. I do still need to find a few more pairs, I've heard that used jeans have quite the market these days...ebay, search words 'girbaud brand x'. I'll have Meg take pics!
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