Note: I was just kidding about the offer, BTW. This one is too good to give away.

If anyone wants to wear this on a tour of the White House, let me know…

No thanks, I’d rather avoid winning the ‘free trip to Cuba’ door prize…

Wear it at the White House? Hell, I want to wear it anywhere! If you can find one in XL holler, I’ll Paypal you the money! LOL

It’s like a horrible combination of B-movie poster girl, something vaguely baseball-related (“High and inside”), and some kind of political statement… or something.

Man, Engrish is awesome. Only makes me realize how horrible I must sound when I’m hacking through some foreign language when I’m on a trip somewhere.

Paul
Seattle, wA

Paul: I’ll look for an XL, but I don’t know if there’ll be one. This being Japan, and all… The one I got is an L.

LOL good point. In fact, in China I bought stuff marked “XL” and it pretty well turned out to be L, and then shrank like mad when I washed/dried it. Wound up fitting- tight- on my ex-gf, who’s only about 55 pounds lighter and 9 inches shorter than me.

Do you have trouble with sizes over there? I can’t recall if you’ve blogged on that before or not.

Shoes are impossible here; most stores max out at 27.5 cm, or about size 9 for men, and I’m between an 11 and a 12. Even store specializing in ‘large’ sizes don’t have much of a selection at all. I *have to* buy my shoes in the U.S. Slacks are gettable here, but only recently did I fall below the “King and Tall” range at the men’s suits store. Shirts are within my range, but just barely; still, I buy my button-up dress shirts in the U.S., mostly because it’s convenient and a lot cheaper to do so. Even socks sold in Japan tend to be too small for me as well. But shoes are the big thing.

LOL Despite being 6’1″, shoes there would be no problem for me- I have short feet, only a size 8.5 (about 26.5cm). They’re a bit… not exactly deformed, but not normal, with really high arches- if they were a proper arch shape they’d be more like a 9.5 or 10.

Sounds like the gf is feeding you enough that she’ll drive you back into the King and Tall section, though. Careful!