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FINDING LOVE IN ALL THE WEIRD PLACES
She Finally Saw the Light and Broke Up — With Her Hard Pants
We are her pull-on pants and we couldn’t be happier
Her name is G. My name is Pinny; I’m a pair of navy blue pinstriped Krazy Larry pull-on dress pants.
It will be two years this September since G found me on Poshmark while searching for “pull-on dress pants,” filtered for “new with tags,” “my sizes,” “straight leg,” and “solid colors.” She wasn’t the only one; soft pants have been flying off warehouse shelves since something humans call “lockdown” started in early 2020. Our more casual cousins — leggings, sweatpants, pajama pants, and joggers — were the first wave as people worked from home and nobody could see them from the waist down.
Then, as some offices reopened, many humans — both female and male — started buying pull-on dress pants.
When Pinny met G
My first owner Rae in Wyoming bought me when she was on vacation in Florida. When she got me home, she tried me on but I was just a bit too small. Fortunately, I still had my tags, so she listed me on Poshmark and then, when G bought me, Rae gently wrapped me in pink-and-white polka dot tissue, packed me in a small flat rate box, and mailed me to California…