I had to mention this....so funny..
Mom would buy the heavy weight Indigo Jeans. They were the ones with the orange heavy thread sewing, and stiff!! They would stand by themselves in the corner.
When they were new, I would make thigh rub sounds like sand blocks in the cooka rocha band.
My thighs would turn indigo blue, and back then, the dye would bleed and turn my undershorts blue. It was so funny, and my mom had to wash them like 4 times just to get them to bend easier.
She always bought them longer than normal; so that every year she could drop the hem on the cuffs as I grew. Little did she know that I would grow sideways at a faster rate than longways.
Haaaaaaa.....
It got to the point when she could only get my pants at Robert Halls where they had what they called "Husky's" ... It was for the Fat Kids. And there was my brother, who had to use suspenders because he had no hips or waist to hold his pants up.
The two of us looked like Laurel and Hardy!
I was a skinny kid, and looked like I had rickets, until I was 7 years old. I looked like a stick, and then I had my tonsils removed, and then it all happened. I began to swell up! And then I look like a Whole Tree; plus the mountain it was growing on! Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa