I have two of the same Pearl Izumi
winter long bib pants,
and since the fabric on one has gotten thin and a small hole appeared,
I broke out the 7ITA long bib pants I'd bought previously.

There's a rubber band sewn around the ankle,
and if you wear shoes over it as-is,
you get this bumpy, uncomfortable feeling under the heel.
Actually, this band is supposed to hook under the shoe sole,
but it's not well understood by Japanese hygiene standards,
and since foreign brand long pants
tend to have lengths that are long for their size,
this band often bunches up awkwardly,
so it's an unpopular feature in Japan.


So I cut it off.
The manufacturer of 7ITA brand apparel is
Giessegi, an Italian company,
and apparently they receive complaints about
this heel rubber band being unpopular
and the hole in the left jersey pocket
that's big enough to stick your finger through—
suspicions of poor stitching
(actually it's a hole for threading a radio cord through)—
and the fact that breaking long pasta in half
before putting it in the pot
is something the Italian manufacturer can't quite understand
are the three major points of confusion.