Women with 7-foot-long legs now have a place to shop online for pants!

Thanks for being awesome, Romwe (Via PS Disasters)

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jandrese

The Photoshop job here makes it look like her leg end about 2″ from the top of her boots, and that she’s just kind of floating around.
http://www.xeni.net/ Xeni Jardin

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Go ahead and laugh, but until the mid-80s, I wore Levi’s with a 26 waist and a 40 inseam.
  - Donald Petersen
    
    Bitch. I was a 30 X 38, and I thought *I* was the badass beanpole!
    - welcomeabored
      
      Oh, dad’s gonna give you such a whoopin’!
    - welcomeabored
      
      I loved button-fly Levi’s. I never felt cooler, slimmer or more comfortable than when I could wear them.
      
      I’ll be making fun of you for shopping at Sears later, though. :^)
  - welcomeabored
    
    I seem to recall you saying in some previous comment that you had an inseam of 36 (this is my inseam too). So, are you wearing your pants lower, or have you lost four inches in height in your old age? :^)
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      Although it seems counterintuitive, your inseam shrinks as your waist grows. And pants were much tighter then. Also, for a while they didn’t seem to make anything longer than a 34.
      - welcomeabored
        
        How did you find pants long enough?
      - Antinous / Moderator
        
        In San Francisco? A) Levi Strauss headquarters. B) Stores buying for the gay market.
      - Donald Petersen
        
        There’s also the fact that shrink-to-fit button-fly 501s (what we just called “Levis” back then) shrink a lot. My 30 X 38 Levis fit a skinny guy who was 6’2″ and 140 lbs. Not all that incredibly tall. But I used to be able to find that size at Sears. I’m still 6’2″, but now the same length inseam in the shrink-to-fit indigo denim is labeled a 36, and the preshrunk ones are 34. In my experience, I haven’t been able to find 30 X 38 Levis anywhere in over fifteen years, not at Levis.com, nor in one of their stores.
        
        Though it really seems to me that their sizing numbers got changed a few years ago, I still have trouble finding Levis long enough for my legs in Los Angeles, particularly in the Valley. And again, I’m only 6’2″. Sure, I see a lot of relatively short guys buying their jeans at the North Hollywood Sears, but not to the point where I feel like the lone giraffe in a veldt full of springbok.
      - Antinous / Moderator
        
        I would normally wear a 34 now, mostly because the fit is just completely different. No more zipping your jeans up to your sternum.
      - IronEdithKidd
        
        @Antinous_Moderator:disqus : You kinda just gave me a flashback to childhood. There was that extended period of time – let’s call it the 80′s – when Levis were not at all cool. So they were cheap, which meant my mom bought them for me. I hated them with a fiery passion because they were stupidly high-waisted, and I’m short-waisted. Damn things rode on my ribs. They were hands-down the most uncomfortable garment on earth.
      - Donald Petersen
        
        I’m so glad the high waist went away. Nobody looks good in those, not Freddie Prinze, not Bob Mitchum, not John Ritter, certainly not me. I like the current low-rise jeans (within reason). But I sure do miss bell-bottoms. Only Cliff Burton knew how to wear jeans in the 80s.
  - ocker3
    
    Xeni is just happy that she’s Finally found a merchant who can outfit her space-lengthened frame
  - oasisob1
    
    I’ve always worn the opposite.
http://abrightcontainer.tumblr.com/ manybellsdown

Psh the measurements say those pants only fit women with legs about 3 feet long. Guess I better keep looking.
xian

hey baby…
- invictus
  
  Oooh, NICE
- pupdog
  
  Hello yourself baby
Paul Coleman

I once had a soundman that had legs like that.
Chuck

Oh, sure. The places that make pants for women with seven-foot-long legs always assume those legs are going to be rail thin. What about women with more beefy, or even normally proportioned seven-feet-long legs? Is there a place for them to shop?
- welcomeabored
  
  Long Elegant Legs caters to inseams of 36″ and up to size 24.
danimagoo

How does this even happen? I think even a drunk monkey (if you could teach her how to use Photoshop), would look at that and say, “Ok, I did something wrong.”
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Drop/100000929402049 Robert Drop
  
  Not only that, but surely someone had to sign off on it…
- IronEdithKidd
  
  Maybe just a disgruntled employee with little supervisory oversight?
- http://www.facebook.com/kevin.gunn Kevin Gunn
  
  I’d guess this isn’t really a PS disaster but a web server disaster. They probably made photos to fit one set of x-y dimensions but the slot on the page is for a different size. The server is resizing the image to fit by stretching it.
  - jandrese
    
    Look at the floor, this isn’t web server scaling, someone did that on purpose.
- http://www.facebook.com/larratt Shannon Larratt
  
  It’s the result of a “content-aware scale” (ie. Seam Carving — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_carving … They’ve probably got an automated tool (or a very lazy employee) that they run on their photos, which includes using a “smart” scaling function in order to make it fit the desired size. You can tell this is the likely culprit by the strange skewing of the floorboards.
Shibi_SF

With the rest of her outfit (those sleeves! those gloves! those boots!) this woman may just be a pirate with extra long, skinny legs.
beemoh

I’m only seeing two feet there, this headline is a sham.
- Just_Ok
  
  each leg is only one foot.
http://celesteagnes.blogspot.com/ Sekino

Well, this customer is happy:

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews49/close_encounters_third_kind_blu-ray/large/large_close_encounters_third_kind_blu-ray18.jpg
xzzy

Another fail: the last image in the set is a mirror of the first image.

I’m going to assume these images are created by a program somehow, and were never reviewed by a human prior to being put online.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Flugfrei-Jones/1403604860 Flugfrei Jones

hmm, yep. check out the floor. this is definitely a wormhole.
Finnagain

Know what those pants need? A banana slicer!
- Ed Ligget. Tuba.
  
  Or some Tuscan Whole milk!
  - http://abrightcontainer.tumblr.com/ manybellsdown
    
    They’d clash with a 3 Wolf Moon shirt, for sure.
RedShirt77

A store for Pirate insects?
http://twitter.com/rvitelli Romeo Vitelli

Hey, stilt walkers like looking fashionable too, you know.
http://twitter.com/ErnestValdemar Ernest Valdemar

Just the thing to wear to your next special event horizon.
contradextra

Enderwomen everywhere are celebrating.
Keith Tyler

Obligatory LONG LEGS IS LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG!
uglyredhonda

For any 90s Disney World fans:

“OR MAYBE HAVE LEGS THAT ARE REEAAALLLL LOOOOOOOOOONNNNG.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Am7D_4568
- oasisob1
  
  I’m waiting for that to get blasted off the internet by Disney.
pjcamp

I dunno. Kinda looks like the bottom half of Keith Richards circa 1967.
Brett Myers

Wow, the undulating floorboards make it kind of trippy.
http://www.legrandbazart.com sigismund

Don’t you know ? Manga girls are real
phiis161803

I don’t believe this is a PS disaster. Rather it looks like the “model” is just a wire frame if some sort. Check out this additional photo from the gallery below the main pic: http://www.romwe.com/low-waist-red-pants-p-52122.html
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  The other leggings/pants seem to be on humans or passably humanoid mannequins. In this one, the back heel is off the floor, which would be pretty hard to balance without muscles and a cerebral cortex.
  
  On the other hand, the forearm appears to be about six inches long, but taking foreshortening into consideration, possibly in proportion to the thighs. It’s the lower legs that are the problem. My guess is that there’s a very thin person en pointe and attached to some kind of stilts.
  - DisGuest
    
    That’s kind of terrifying, if you ask me.
http://twitter.com/bigtrendy bigtrendy

A perfect gift for the transvestite slenderman. Also available in ominious black.
helloworld49

Never mind the legs, I want a floor like that. I’d never have to drink again to feel dizzy.
Lobster

These’d go great with my stilts.
CLamb

Bah! It only fits women with two legs the same length.
http://www.facebook.com/larratt Shannon Larratt

No, the floor is the proof, if anything. They’re using a type of scaling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_carving that selectively stretches some areas more than others in an attempt to change the image dimensions without damaging areas of high-detail. This is why the top part of the image (the chair, etc.), which are much more detailed, have remained “normal”.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  The fact that I didn’t even notice the fun house flooring is probably due to decades of living in warped old Edwardians in SF.
niktemadur

Much like steroids in baseball (topical this week because of the Hall Of Fame vote), Photoshop is a plague in advertisement, the lazy shortcut.
But unlike baseball, which addressed steroids although much too late to contain long-lasting legacy damage, advertising will continue to sink further down the hole.

Then again, advertisement is a plague in itself, isn’t it? So a plague that affects a plague may not be something that we should be concerned about.
Paul Doherty

Where Jack Skellington buys his pants.