800 dude wrote:
leftrightcenter wrote:
Also interesting that little ole' BOA can get liner sizes correct, while......that other little company - NIKE, is it? - seems to be having a lot trouble with that in recent years.....
Yeah, I bought my first pair of Nike shorts in ten years or so, and I couldn't believe how tight the liner was.
It continually amazes me how, for example, a company like Nike that's been making running clothing for over half a century could get liner sizes badly wrong. And not just one lot. Or, how so many SHOE companies, including Nike, can get the sizing on a particular model of shoe wrong. How many thousands of years have humans been making shoes?
One could come up with a million analogies, but I don't think that you regularly see these kind of FUNDAMENTAL shortcomings in so many other industries. Imagine Corn Flakes shipping soggy flakes for a year or two, or......, Ford messes up and has half-size gas tanks on a model of car, or.....