Slim/Straight Pants survivors

[Mr. Kamikazi]

501’s until I’m unable to speak & I’m taking my last breath & glance at those around me. Carhartt WIP Masters are also lovely. Straight fit is what an adult wears. For work, Dockers straight fit. I will say Former makes a nice straight fit. A tad on the looser side but very tailored & glaring quality.

[dstrytruitt]

I typically skate in shorts unless it's ridiculously cold and then I run athletic fit chinos from Gap. Otherwise I prefer Levis 541s; best fitting jeans I've ever had. Find them on ebay from time to time and they're better than new for me.

Once upon a time (90s/early 2000s) I would run the 874s or RedKaps to skate either cut-off or regular. I know I had a couple pairs of skinny fit jeans but never thought they looked all that good; just wore them when my wife thought they looked good on me (those days have passed).

[Banned from the room]

I do both slim and big. Depending on my mood.

[Pasta Monster]

The Polar 89! Denim is out. Straight leg and regular fit.

[kneebone]

When do the Polar ‘08 skinnies come out?

[myfeetarekillingme]

I wear either Levi’s 505s or Dickies 874s. I’m short and getting kinda old, so going the full loose/baggy trend just isn’t for me

[gaunting]

whatever cut pants Bobby Dekyzer wears, is what I try to find. I’m not really sure specifically what pants/jeans he wears, but I do notice he skates in levi jeans sometimes. i guess it’s a dickies 874 type fit.

[beautifulcannolis]

Straight for going out. slim for work. Baggy for skating, making art, and chilling around the house/ neighborhood.

I do feel like with wide/baggy becoming more mainstream I'm tempted to take the work pants up to a straight fit

[lamfordie]

I discovered the Target brand jeans and I absolutely love them. Really flexible and feel great. Plus theyere only $25.

[beautifulcannolis]

I'll add since I've never seen mentioned on slap , LL bean has some solid pants for a reasonable price. Well made, good fit too.

https://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/502921?page=mens-pants

Nice and high wasted so you never feel like you gotta hike em up to avoid stretching in the crotch when your squatting to pop. Got a pair of their classic fit cords recently that I enjoy wearing.

[Fartknocker415]

I would rock the kr3w erik Ellington Jean if I could find it

[Xen]

Slim / straight for non-skating

Shorts! But if I have too, regular / loose (with stretch) for skating

Having big quads compared to the average skater makes 'skate pant' selection difficult even more so for non-skate (everything becomes slim or tight) and very few companies offer an athletic fit.

I never did the big pants in the 90s either *shudder*

[Musicaldeath107]

I do both slim and big. Depending on my mood.

This right here.  Sometimes I'll rock the tight jeans and puffy shoe combo from back in the day.  Then next day I'll have on baggie pants, whatever I'm feeling that day.

[gringo_viejo]

Can't imagine skating in jeans. The swampass. The chafing. The sweat stains. It's like running in jeans, or playing basketball: two minutes? Why not. Two hours? Yuck.

And yeah, some of the baggy pants are venturing into JNCO territory.

For regular wear I like 501s and such, or athletic cut.

To skate in, give me relaxed fit work pants. Cotton duck or ripstop. Carhartts. Wranglers. Lately my favorite skate pants are an old pair of bdu's.

Silly:


Silly and uncomfortable:

[WashingtonNECKTIE]

Slim / straight for non-skating

Shorts! But if I have too, regular / loose (with stretch) for skating

Having big quads compared to the average skater makes 'skate pant' selection difficult even more so for non-skate (everything becomes slim or tight) and very few companies offer an athletic fit.

I never did the big pants in the 90s either *shudder*

Not sure about pants, but Levis 551 is a prime fit for thick quads, if you're looking for jeans. They taper fairly straight at the ankle, but nice and loose around knee to upper leg.

550s are my new favorite, but those are definitely relaxed/baggier

[Xen]

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Slim / straight for non-skating

Shorts! But if I have too, regular / loose (with stretch) for skating

Having big quads compared to the average skater makes 'skate pant' selection difficult even more so for non-skate (everything becomes slim or tight) and very few companies offer an athletic fit.

I never did the big pants in the 90s either *shudder*

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Not sure about pants, but Levis 551 is a prime fit for thick quads, if you're looking for jeans. They taper fairly straight at the ankle, but nice and loose around knee to upper leg.

550s are my new favorite, but those are definitely relaxed/baggier

Thank, I’ll give them a look.

[seabassbooster]

anyone got a picture of someone in the polar 89’s? been looking but cant find what they’d fit like

[dublak2]

Slim, yes. Skinny, no. I feel like slim is just the middle between baggy and skinny so in a way it will never go out of style since the current trend will forever be ping-ponging between the extremes. I'm also old, so I don't feel any need to have the best drip at the skate park whatsoever. I started wearing my golf polos to skate because they wick away sweat better than my cotton skate T's. So, I suppose take my style advice with a grain of salt.

These are my go-to skate pant: https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Essentials-Slim-Fit-Casual-Stretch/dp/B07BJKXRHN/
They're slightly slimmer than Dickies, and they're pretty cheap so if I tear the knees, I feel no need to hold on to them.

One rule to live by is that pants have to have stretch in them. "Elastane", "spandex", something in combination with cotton to make normal looking pants more athletic feeling.

[McBrandt]

I came to vouch for a slightly different pair of Amazon brand chinos. These ones claim 'flat front', but two of the pairs i've gotten have the crease like Dickies.

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Essentials-Slim-Fit-Wrinkle-Resistant-Flat-Front/dp/B07757LYY8/ref=sr_1_6?crid=24XIZGVOS4NJF&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Xa6jNBtD1WzVc6UTgxQ7C6OP_y_gnS3daEBjKAvTaB2MUD--toVnRqj60SC0xZ8TrAqqc-ADNljTJG9U6hdvR96kKOwF_DygClqFEteZNfws9RtaKTkRRxyk1gpMq97y-9QAeWHV33aWZt24I-Dbd18NPz6bMQIRn_7bYH3PnEhbzcFDimhDxGBNmA0IRYKuIIWUJpNQJTgS5AgeVFZ261Oit6wJmym5uixr4SeB_JPHBGAshpQ-s3AWTZVOIxkR7ocAFjPrHteRF1Flhn6rz22-3dEjuAwuia6chJuQdOA.dSCZYSK4lSJO8Ax7TiuKb-pABIuNbmmV6-NNkmIa794&dib_tag=se&keywords=slim%2Bfit%2Bchino%2Bmen%27s&qid=1710260876&sprefix=slim%2Bfit%2Bchino%2Bmen%27%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-6&th=1

These are on the looser side of slim/straight, if you ask me.

[SelenaGlomez]

Has anyone on polar been wearing the 89 denim in ads at all recently? I want to get a better understanding as to just how straight legged these are, and it has been difficult to find pictures of people wearing them on the net.

[Fast_Freddie]

My go to... More of an athletic fit, and tapered opening since I have a small foot (7M)... I am 5'9" and weigh like 190... https://www.gap.com/browse/product.do?pid=501490092&cid=80799&pcid=80799&vid=1&cpos=8&cexp=2859&kcid=CategoryIDs%3D80799&ctype=Listing&cpid=res24031310678053635022628&ccam=31385#pdp-page-content

[KinkyRailsRailed4u]

Skating in tight, tight, denim 100%-cotton jeans (like Levi's '501 Women's Super Skinny Sky High Waisted Jeans') makes you feel like an armored creature. The way they feel on your legs also makes you adopt a crablike skate style, overly engaging the glutes. It is like a wearable sauna to feel them slowly dry in your AC-less car on the drive home, especially after a session under the hot Texas sun.

Depending on how restrictive they are, they may add stability around your ankles by reducing ankle mobility. They are also more fun to take off when they’re soaking wet with sweat. Sometimes I opt to shower in post-session skinny jeans, so I'll lather up soap on them. Then, I'll grab the belt buckles and pull up while jumping up and down to simultaneously exfoliate my legs and clean the jeans.

When your jeans are skinny as hell, they double as resistance training like those plastic exercise bands. It’s always leg day when you wear skinny jeans out skating.

[somedudefromnj]

bought some of those brixton pants with the little cinch waist closing thing. they were straight legged but looked like a box at the bottom. Took a couple inches off and made a nice taper for myself

feel like as long as they taper down at the bottom I dont mind too much

also

since trends are cyclical I say in maybe another five years or so skinnys will be back

[fergus]

Has anyone on polar been wearing the 89 denim in ads at all recently? I want to get a better understanding as to just how straight legged these are, and it has been difficult to find pictures of people wearing them on the net.

Unsure what size the model is wearing maybe dm the shop

[fergus]

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Has anyone on polar been wearing the 89 denim in ads at all recently? I want to get a better understanding as to just how straight legged these are, and it has been difficult to find pictures of people wearing them on the net.

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Unsure what size the model is wearing maybe dm the shop

Sorry my bad, actually says right there in the video haha! 32 waist.

[Mr. Kamikazi]

You just gotta wear what suits your body.

Danny Garcia killed it with the straight fit pants in this

I think about this clip a lot when I wear 501’s. Mine are a tad slimmer than DGar’s but I got TTS & let them loosen over time. Slim strain/straight forever. Levi 501’s & Carhartt WIP Masters for the win on this. I have some former trousers too but sometimes they feel a tad loose. I do like the j crew factory straight pant but those are my work trousers.

[swongolianbbq]

When I first started skating I wore dickies and old dress pants and stuff. During the baker 3 era I wore a lot of 501s/505s, then I got some rvca spanky's and some k-slims, both of which stretched a lot more than the Levi's, but the Levi's were from the thrift store and the skate jeans were expensive. The rvcas were thin and i patched the butt up a bunch, the kr3ws were real thick and had so much spandex the ass would diaper out after a day of skating. then i just started rocking dickies and old dress pants again. Got a couple pairs of Ben Davis and Carhartts in rotation. Some of them like the Ben Davis and Dickies fit real straight, whereas the Carhartts are looser. I just can't hang with the lower rise a lot of the tailored looking pants have, and I destroy pants so much I don't want to get hooked on a style that won't be cheaply and easily available. My 2c

That being said you can get well fitting and good looking pants and jeans on Uniqlo for a really good price most of the time, and they'll hem them to whatever length you want.

[augustmoon]

the superior pant.  oh the depths of depravity we have found ourselves in. 

[FatGuy92]

When I first started skating I wore dickies and old dress pants and stuff. During the baker 3 era I wore a lot of 501s/505s, then I got some rvca spanky's and some k-slims, both of which stretched a lot more than the Levi's, but the Levi's were from the thrift store and the skate jeans were expensive. The rvcas were thin and i patched the butt up a bunch, the kr3ws were real thick and had so much spandex the ass would diaper out after a day of skating. then i just started rocking dickies and old dress pants again. Got a couple pairs of Ben Davis and Carhartts in rotation. Some of them like the Ben Davis and Dickies fit real straight, whereas the Carhartts are looser. I just can't hang with the lower rise a lot of the tailored looking pants have, and I destroy pants so much I don't want to get hooked on a style that won't be cheaply and easily available. My 2c

That being said you can get well fitting and good looking pants and jeans on Uniqlo for a really good price most of the time, and they'll hem them to whatever length you want.

+1 to Uniqlo I love skating in the slim selvedge stretch jawns. They aren't the best quality but I usually get a year or so out of them both skating and casual wear. I have big ass thighs so the only reason I have to retire them is cus of crotch blowouts. Tried skating Dickies 873/874 for a bit but would always get holes/rips pretty quickly.

[swongolianbbq]

Uniqlo is solid for sure, but not the highest quality. But at 20-40 for pants what do we expect

Dickies are hit or miss. The sizing and quality can be wildly off. I've had a few really good ones though, or I've had ones that fit good but fall apart. I've tried on some that were baggy on me in the same size be way up my butt, it's wild. My solution ordering online is to just get the longest inseam possible in my usual sizes, so the chances of a more comfortable top block are increased. Nowadays I just get them at thrift stores and wear a belt. I have big thighs and calves for my size from backpacking and cycling and if I get Dickies tts they fit high and slim. So do the wrangler 936 jeans and wranchers.

I think for the slim/tapered/straight pants, like when the rest of your wardrobe fits the way your tailored suit fits, the rises almost always seem too low. I even think the 501/505 waist is too low. Just me though, I don't wear them up on my waist all the time but if I'm working outside or need to do some karate ass shit I can just tighten the belt up.

It'd be cool if Levi's did their cowboy 517 jeans in a straight leg and not boot cut. There's a little mechanical stretch from the polyester content. I have no idea how I skated in 100% cotton 501's for as long as I did.

Idk my money's still on Uniqlo for having sharp-looking slim and tapered cuts that are comfortable and affordable for skating