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> awful hip pocket bulges Who says they're awful? Why do they say that? We must be informed and skeptical consumers.
I rather like the hammer pants look myself.
Jodhpurs have to make a comeback sooner or later
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#142I like the idea of rethinking an everyday item to make it more usable, while also attending to aesthetics. A lot of technologies could be improved by just writing down a list of "What's this thing really supposed to do?" And then, iterating on that list as the design evolves. In the case of this article, I have three more feature requests: 1. The pocket should be narrow enough so the phone can't rotate sideways while…
For 3, I'm a fan of small, discreet zippers. My Bluffworks pants have zippers that are discreet enough to be unnoticeable but sturdy enough for roller coasters.
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#143This is a cool exercise, but there's a broken assumption. Or an assumption of no outwear I missed: > Where is there enough support to prevent items swinging around uncomfortably? He answered this with a box basically around the thighs, but I'd also add the torso and maybe even the upper arms. A personal bugbear of mine is jackets without internal breast pockets. When you have one on each side of a jacket that isn't u…
I fully agree, though I’m on the East Coast and evening then I don’t mind occasionally opening my jacket to get my wallet or phone.
When shopping a jacket without dual internal breast pockets goes back on the rack and won’t be considered.
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Yeah, I felt somewhat slandered by the attack on cargo pants. I wore them in high school and still wear them to this day for comfort and convenience. There is a functional elegance of being able to have pens, a small note book, keys+wallet and phone in separate pockets easily accessible. It's like having a preponderance of tabs open, but for pants.
I like 5.11 tactical pants. They have enough pocket to carry things, but not so much pocket that it's all bulging out. I just wish the phone pocket was big enough for the phablets.
Yeah I have a pair, they're quite nice. Very comfortable as well
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I felt somewhat slandered by the attack on cargo pants. I wore them in high school and still wear them to this day for comfort and convenience. There is a functional elegance of being able to have pens, a small note book, keys+wallet and phone in separate pockets easily accessible. It's like having a preponderance of tabs open, but for pants.
I like 5.11 tactical pants. They have enough pocket to carry things, but not so much pocket that it's all bulging out. I just wish the phone pocket was big enough for the phablets.
After buying some of their shorts, I'm never buying shorts or pants again without gusseting.
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#146He’s reinvented the knife pocket in carpenter jeans. There’s also usually a loop nearby for hanging a hammer so you don’t have to walk around with your tool bags.
Pretty much but I should point out that you can’t easily find carpenter pants anymore. And I view the gamer loop as about as useful as the coin pocket: purely decorative in nature.
I carry a filled Zippo everywhere I go (although I don't smoke - it's for lighting others' cigarettes). It fits perfectly in the coin pocket on a pair of raw Japanese jeans, where it will produce a fade[0] unique to the lighter and its wearer.
[0]: https://www.heddels.com/2019/04/fade-day-unbranded-ub421-14-...
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#147>"Appendix: Sam, have you simply invented cargo pants? >No. Cargo pants are fashion-as-pretend-occupation — when not at work, wear a fancy chronometer to suggest you’re a pilot or a diver, or camo to suggest you’re in the military. Cargo pants are a paratrooper costume. Cargo shorts have giant external pouches so teenagers in the 90’s, trapped in school, could say (sartorially) “I go out into the world and do adventu…
Yeah, I felt somewhat slandered by the attack on cargo pants. I wore them in high school and still wear them to this day for comfort and convenience. There is a functional elegance of being able to have pens, a small note book, keys+wallet and phone in separate pockets easily accessible. It's like having a preponderance of tabs open, but for pants.
I've worn black combats (name for cargo pants where I'm from) since I was a teenager if work policy allows it (or more correctly if no-one has yet told me it doesn't), they are comfortable, practical, hard wearing and I'm a programmer - what I wear should be like 207th on the list of things they should be worrying about.
As for brand, I visit the local workwear place and buy whatever they have in my size (usually dickies or similar) and move on - clothes made as actual workwear tend to be tougher and better made than 'fashion' knock-offs of working gear.
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#148Those pockets look exactly like the pockets on kühl (https://www.kuhl.com/kuhl/mens/pants/) pants and those pants come in all sorts of shapes and sizes not just cargo pants. I can attest to the fact that they are very practical for using for modern smartphones which have definetly become to large for front pockets.
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I don't think you missed the mark. Some people just like military cosplay a lot and get offended when you call out what they're doing.
For the people who want a ton of pockets on their pants, cargo pants are pretty much the only option. Do you earnestly believe that all of these people "just like military cosplay"? Edit: Or maybe I'm wrong, and there are other kinds of pants with many pockets.
How are you defining cargo pants?
These have ten pockets. https://shop.bluffworks.com/products/ascender-chino-regular-...
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#150Kuhl has been doing this for years, but they chose a slightly higher place on the pantline than Bleckley did. Wonder why.