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A far as male pants/trousers go, your choices are basically jeans, corduroys, or khakis (chinos). Corduroys are uncomfortably warm, IME, and of the remaining tw
by Analemma_ 9y ago
A far as male pants/trousers go, your choices are basically jeans, corduroys, or khakis (chinos). Corduroys are uncomfortably warm, IME, and of the remaining two jeans are a clear winner for convenience: they don't need to be ironed (chinos look terrible as soon as they get even slightly wrinkled, jeans do not), and they better conceal small spills and stains. Not much more to it than that, for me.
- gaius 9y agoCombats. Cheap, comfortable, hardwearing, lots of pockets, dry quickly.
- CodeCube 9y agoAlso, surprisingly good at birth control!
- SBCRec 9y agoAgreed. My favourite thing about jeans are the lack of care they require, and their ability to hide stains!
- baus 9y agoDepending on your line of work, wool trousers are daily wear
- Analemma_ 9y agoGood point. But I'm a West Coast software engineer specifically to avoid that ;)
- baus 9y agoJust saying, your list of options there is pretty limited. You could also do something like these duck cotton jeans: https://www.ironheart.co.uk/bottoms/ih-666d.html https://www.ironheart.co.uk/bottoms/ih-666d.html
- balabaster 9y agoHuh, these look like they might actually stand up around the farm. Which is something I can never seem to get "city" jeans to do. Normally you have to trade off how often you have to replace them with how much they cost. For me, Levis red tabs (when found at Costco) are still pretty much right at the price point where the frequency of replacement works out the best value for money. Of course, like everything, it depends on what you're using them for - for city life, your $200 fashion jeans will last much longer than they do on the farm where they're done in 10 minutes. With the amount of time they last, the idea of spending hundreds of dollars on a pair of jeans that will be destroyed quickly just makes me cringe.
- macintux 9y agoI've settled on black jeans and black tennis shoes for my usual outfit. Makes wearing bright shirts easy, maintenance is trivial, still looks nice enough to wear on stage if I'm giving a presentation at a conference.
- amelius 9y agoYes, choice is very limited. Yet ... still when I need to find a pair of trousers, it can take me half a day of shopping. Online shopping is no good either, because I can't just write "low waist boot cut jeans, size 32/34" in any search engine. Even Amazon can't grok it. Seriously, somebody should fill that market gap.
- thomasfrank09 9y agoThose are pretty much what I wear (except straight leg instead of boot cut), and the best I've found so far are at Buckle. All the Levi's I tried seemed weirdly high-waisted, and stuff at other stores didn't fit so well either.
- Nav_Panel 9y ago> All the Levi's I tried seemed weirdly high-waisted This is surprising to me. Most contemporary Levi's I've tried seem quite low-waisted, so I'm forced to buy vintage for a more traditional high-waisted fit.
- iamacynic 9y agowhen you find a pair you like, buy as many as you can.
- coldtea 9y ago>A far as male pants/trousers go, your choices are basically jeans, corduroys, or khakis (chinos) Why, what happened to cotton lycra, herringbone, linen, traditional business suit trousers etc?
- anigbrowl 9y agoIt's interesting but sad that you're being so heavily downvoted for suggesting options outside the subcultural norm. When I was a young hacker coming to work in jeans was frowned upon and I had to put up with a lot of hassle for looking too casual. I've been surprised and disappointed to see the emergence of 'casual conformism' which encourages comfort but retains hostility to anything too different from the common tribal signifiers.
- chrisseaton 9y agoRight - west-coast tech companies have a dress code as strict as old fashioned companies - it just has different things on the list. In reality, no work place or social event has no dress code. We've just made it even harder by not having names for any of it. When I worked in a very traditional industry the dress code was always clear - semi-formal, informal, planter's, etc all had clear specific meanings and you could not make a mistake. When I go to a Google office, or a fashionable wedding they say 'wear whatever you are comfortable in' but if I wore a suit to Google or jeans to the wedding I'd be doing it wrong, so it's not honest.
- lostlogin 9y agoLycra in the workplace needs to stop.
- coldtea 9y agoWas speaking of lycra blends (with cotton, wool etc) for pants (were lycra is minimum just to give them elasticity), but sure, why not lycra itself too...
- santaclaus 9y agoI used to have a coworker who would weather leather pants to the office. YMMV.
- anigbrowl 9y agoPossibly me :)
- character0 9y agoI wash my jeans every 6-12 months, with occasional febreezing after I wear them. This is way more convenient than having to wash and iron my other pants. My other alternative are my Outlier pants https://outlier.nyc/ https://outlier.nyc/
- pitaj 9y agoDo you never sweat? Are the jeans antimicrobial or something?
- djtriptych 9y agoI've done basically the same thing. Definitely passes the sniff test - somehow there's not much of a difference. Not sure if oil from the skin ends up becoming a antimicrobial agent over time?
- ashark 9y agoFWIW mine need a wash after ~4-6 wearings or they smell. I haven't tried the vodka-spritzing trick I've read about, though, which may let them go longer. How they're stored probably affects it some. I have better results hanging them up rather than letting them sit on the floor, even if I'm just going to put them back on the next morning.
- int_19h 9y agoOnce you stop caring about appearances and go mainly for comfort, the "tactical" clothing (of a more lightweight variety, usually marketed as "duty" for security guards etc) becomes a surprisingly good choice. You get durable cotton/polyester or cotton/nylon blends, plenty of pockets that are actually designed to hold useful things in a comfortable way (like a phone pocket that can fit a Nexus 6P), generous cuts that do not constrict your movement or feel tight when you sit down, often with an elastic waistband that's not noticeable on the outside.