Since I’m sure you’ve all been awaiting an update on PantsGate: while my collection of Wrangler cargo pants all are a 36 waist, and while when trying to button them they insist upon a four-inch gap, the pair of 40 waist pants I bought are too big. So, some combination of pants-shrinkage and me-fattening conspired to make me think I now needed a 40 when I probably at most need a 38. Two hot-water washes and highest-setting dries have done just about all the shrinking of the 40 waist that’s going to happen.