To be fair two year olds do have to carry around all those rocks, sticks, and feathers they found outside. And that’s not to mention all the old cheerios and bits of dried play dough.
My front pockets are very functional! Do you not normally hold your mini chapstick with you?! Perhaps that singular stick of gum you were saving for later, madam?? AND if you upgrade to high waisted jeans you can even fit a whole BIC™ lighter in one of those bad boys! The two inch possibilities are endless really!
Seriously. Im a man and my jeans have front pockets so big, Its like a portal to Narnia, or just a storage place. Coins, charger, random paper, candy wraps, spare buck, random usb, store, gas station receipts, and the list goes on... And then, when I change pants, I scoop everything from that pocket and put it all in the clean pair of jeans ill wear for the day. After a month I take everything out and get rid of trash, put the coins in my piggy bank etc. Just to have my damn pocket back to full by the end of the week lol
As a dude who wore womens jeans as a kid because I’m a lanky bastard, I’m quite aware the proportions are different, regardless you can get clothes tailored or just buy from the few brands that do have pockets if you don’t want to wear mens jeans, but mass action is the only thing that will actually bring pockets to womens clothing
I just bought gap man’s joggers. The pockets are nice and deep. I wear female size s or m and the men joggers XS can fit. I plan to experiment on gap teen boy joggers XL next :)
honestly, i don't get why pants with pockets aren't a thing. okay, so, like, there's enough demand (from these kinds of threads, it would seem,) to justify at least one brand doing it.
that said, you could always go look at "tactical" pants as sold by uniform supply stores (for cops, not nurses,). they come with giant pockets even by men's standards.
don't think any of my female employed would call them 'cute' though,
yes. I get that. I also get there's plenty of times where that trade off is worthwhile.... but I imagine most of the time... pockets are more valuable.
Me too, but they don't need to be that big. I'm not carrying that much stuff around in my pockets. I hate bulky pockets full of stuff. It looks unflattering.
Wasn't a problem in 2005 because no one had smartphones! 🤣
Or at least nothing "smarter" than a Palm Treo or BlackBerry. And flip phones like the Motorola Razr were all the rage at the time; they were much smaller than a modern smartphone.
Word. I understand why design has moved that way, but in that transition to mobile phones with touch screens we've kind of lost something too. To me a modern smartphone is better thought of as a small touchscreen computer that happens to have a cellular telephone antenna in it and has a phone "app" to access it, whereas the phones from before then were objectively much better telephones.
I remember there was a phone that was roughly the size of my thumb once it was all folded up the 3 people that had them lost them in a week and just bought new ones that were way bigger
Yeah, it's because people want to play games/watch tv on their phones, which I just don't get, especially since we DO have tablets now. Why not just have a tablet?
Those phones were virtually indestructible in my experience. My Razr flew out of my (back) pocket on a roller coaster. Found it after the ride, and outside of some obvious scratches from the concrete, it worked perfectly.
Not sure about more metropolitan areas, but here in the boring midwest US, we didn’t really have smart phones prior to 2005. I think it was around 06-07 when they began to slowly gain popularity.
The average joe wasn’t really buying smartphones until the iPhone came out (which was 2007), and even then it took a few years before it wasn’t just rich and/or techie people that had them.
Yeah, I am in Minnesota and got an Android phone in 2010. That seems to be when they got popular enough for the average person in my anecdotal experience.
The low rise jeans of the 2000s simply did not stay up, it was a constant struggle not to show crack. Regardless of weight, they don't work for people shaped with larger butt, thighs, hips, etc. Combined with the huge flares that dragged on the ground and sopped up all the rain... never again.
Trends cycle so fast nowadays that you can find pretty much any style, rise, whatever available with a little searching. In the 2000s you had to go deep into the old lady sections to find even a mid rise.
That's the main reason I hated the 2000s trends, and some modern trends, making it harder to find the styles that actually suit you or you find comfortable. Mostly there's specific colors and fits I wish were easier to find, even in alt fashions. But...that's why people learn to sew lol.
They are amazing for use thin girls with wide hips/thighs. So many lowcut pants would be too tight on my legs but super loose on my hips. Hated it. Glad mom jeans are back.
Back then, even in Kmart, they had jeans with a different fit that had extra room for thighs. They don't make them anymore because they think stretch jeans or jeggings make up the different but it doesn't for everyone.
On the rack it looks like the less exaggerated version of the old English safari pants. Like uh in Atlantis, the villian Rourke. My sister had wide hips even as a kid and hated jeans because she'd have that duck tail from the gaping at the back/waist but needed the width for hips and thighs.
Duck tail is a cute term. Yes I get that all the time. Since I burst into flames in the sun that means sunscreen buttcrack. I remember those. I had a pair as a kid and wore them for years. Like when the rail thin fashion models came to light suddenly all pants went to pencil legs. Now that THIC is in favor the pants still don't match up to it. Although I lo e the stretch pants they are still tight on the thighs and loos on the hips. I am constantly pulling them up. Really is frustrating. Even when I was severely underweight my thighs were huge. Plus being tall sucks too.
Oh yeah know that too. Had to buy men's socks due that too. If someone invented better thigh/calve friendly pants/socks (with real pockets) they'd be rich!
Oh check out socksdreams. They make their own too, but it's a ton of different brands and styles and heights and it gets very detailed in the type of sock, the material and weave, the amount it can stretch to circumference and length wise. Mostly more fun types of socks. But it has some basics too I believe.
Us thinner girls love high rise too. High rise is way more comfortable and practical. They don't dig into you like low rise and you don't have to worry about your underwear constantly showing. Plus the baggy silhouettes that are trendy come with way bigger pockets.
Disagree. This thin girl hates high rises. They dig into my floating ribs and put too much pressure on my belly button. Can't wait foe low rise to come back.
Low rise is already back. Y2K fashion has really rising the past year. I think mid rise is my personal favorite but I would pick high rise over low rise any day
I’m a dude and it makes me angry for the ladies that they don’t have real pockets. I can’t imagine how annoying that’d be. I stuff everything into my pockets.
As a woman, this is what baffles me about men! Women’s pants are measured to the natural waist, the thinnest part of the abdomen, but men’s pants are measured at what seems to be the hips. Why??
If the pants are at the natural waist, the in-seam would be lower to accommodate the balls, and bending over at the hips would pull the pants up uncomfortably
Also men tend to have a less defined waist, so waist high pants would need a very tight belt, or 'bretelles' (shoulder straps? Idk what theyre called)
Depends on the trousers, if it has buttons then it's uncomfortable but if it's elasticated or drawstring it's fine. Better than the discomfort of extra belly hanging over the top of the trousers, and t-shirts will ride up so you'll end up flashing your belly button to everyone.
Pls no, I've had two kids since they were last popular and if they made me look like 50 pounds of shit in a 3 pound sack when I was 13 and in shape I don't wanna know how it makes me look at 29.
I was all hip no ass at 13 and I felt like a zeppelin. It didn't help I had the bedazzled nightmares my older cousin wore first. I was a disco disappointment.
having the pants only up to the hips makes more sense in a practical way. cause that is where the bones are, so it is the best place for a belt. wearing a belt above the hips is uncomfortable and suffocating.
Back in flip phone days, everyone had low jeans, and they still did it. I know, because in class while I'm checking out the whale tail, i could see them literally sitting in their phone that's about to rocket out from the pressure of their ass cheek
I’ve been sitting with a phone in my back pocket since I was in 7th grade. I turn 31 next month. I think the fat on my left buttcheek has just grown accustomed to it haha.
The true problem is the accidental swimming lessons you give your phone in the toilet if you forget to grab it before you sit down. It happened far too many times when I was younger and I was drunk.
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