“I work in Lady’s Dresses.”
“Well, as long as your wife doesn’t mind…”
BTW, I think that was the first joke Jack Benny ever told on his radio show.
I’d be more concerned to find out if his boss and/or co-workers minded.
Worth a chuckle, but do stores really have a “Women’s Dresses” department? I have seen “Women”, which normally covers all articles of clothing.
And wouldn’t “Women’s Dresses” be redundant, even in 2020?
NO – there are ‘womens dresses’, ‘petites dresses’, ‘juniors dresses’, ‘misses dresses’, ad infinitum/ad nauseam . . . all sorts of categories, depending on sizes. (and don’t start me on apostrophes, and/or the lack thereof).
Frankly, it’d be easier to find dresses to fit my dogs than to go thru all these different departments to find a dress in ‘my size’, as no two companies use the same sizing chart. Thankfully, I haven’t had to wear a dress in years.
I stand corrected
My assumption was that you are a man and therefore have easy peasy sizing for suits and pants . . . length of pants legs and girth of person for pants; shoulder breadth and length of sleeves for jackets. It’s long been argued about – female sizing charts vs those for men – but the industry hasn’t changed.
Actually (I wear men’s clothing for several things – jeans, for one) I’m finding they’re going the wrong way. I’m seeing men’s clothes in Medium/Large/etc, instead of by inches – or worse, a “Size 38” jeans that’s more, or less, than 38 inches in the waist. Argh!
padraig: “BTW, I think that was the first joke Jack Benny ever told on his radio show.”
Nope. I’ve heard the OTR show, and the first joke was approximately: “This is Jack Benny. There will now be a short wait, while everyone says ‘Who cares?’ “
And I now see I’m wrong — that was his first joke on his first appearance on radio, but it preceded his own first show by a bit over a month:
Q: When did Jack Benny debut on radio?
A: Jack first appeared on radio on Ed Sullivan’s New York interview program on March 29, 1932. His first line was, “This is Jack Benny talking. There will now be a slight pause while you say, ‘Who cares?'”
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She shot an elephant in her pajamas!
“I work in Lady’s Dresses.”
“Well, as long as your wife doesn’t mind…”
BTW, I think that was the first joke Jack Benny ever told on his radio show.
I’d be more concerned to find out if his boss and/or co-workers minded.
Worth a chuckle, but do stores really have a “Women’s Dresses” department? I have seen “Women”, which normally covers all articles of clothing.
And wouldn’t “Women’s Dresses” be redundant, even in 2020?
NO – there are ‘womens dresses’, ‘petites dresses’, ‘juniors dresses’, ‘misses dresses’, ad infinitum/ad nauseam . . . all sorts of categories, depending on sizes. (and don’t start me on apostrophes, and/or the lack thereof).
Frankly, it’d be easier to find dresses to fit my dogs than to go thru all these different departments to find a dress in ‘my size’, as no two companies use the same sizing chart. Thankfully, I haven’t had to wear a dress in years.
I stand corrected
My assumption was that you are a man and therefore have easy peasy sizing for suits and pants . . . length of pants legs and girth of person for pants; shoulder breadth and length of sleeves for jackets. It’s long been argued about – female sizing charts vs those for men – but the industry hasn’t changed.
Actually (I wear men’s clothing for several things – jeans, for one) I’m finding they’re going the wrong way. I’m seeing men’s clothes in Medium/Large/etc, instead of by inches – or worse, a “Size 38” jeans that’s more, or less, than 38 inches in the waist. Argh!
padraig: “BTW, I think that was the first joke Jack Benny ever told on his radio show.”
Nope. I’ve heard the OTR show, and the first joke was approximately: “This is Jack Benny. There will now be a short wait, while everyone says ‘Who cares?’ “
And I now see I’m wrong — that was his first joke on his first appearance on radio, but it preceded his own first show by a bit over a month:
http://www.jackbenny.org/faq.htm#A11
Q: When did Jack Benny debut on radio?
A: Jack first appeared on radio on Ed Sullivan’s New York interview program on March 29, 1932. His first line was, “This is Jack Benny talking. There will now be a slight pause while you say, ‘Who cares?'”