Pleated pants a gross fashion faux-pas: why?

[DiosaBellissima]

@Labrador_Deceiver

I’m suggesting that pants are sized by the waist, which often has little to do with how much stress your ass puts on the relatively delicate fabric that is common in suit material. The whole point of the column was to show that certain flat fronted pants don’t fit certain body types particularly well, which is why pleated pants are more commonly sold with suits than flat fronted ones.

Of course I realize that men’s pants are sized by the waist- I’m not nearly as stupid as you think I am. I can read, too. Thank you for your concern. I also have managed to get through life without ripping the crotch out of my pants and I can dress myself, too; so take that for what you will.

The point is: if your body is one that simply does not bode well for prefab pants, you are one of the unlucky ones (ie: MOST PEOPLE) who needs to go to a tailor. If you are perpetually ripping the ass out of your pants, that is showing that you’re fitting your pants incorrectly and through proper tailoring that can be fixed.

[Labrador_Deceiver]

@DiosaBellissima

The point is: if your body is one that simply does not bode well for prefab pants, you are one of the unlucky ones (ie: MOST PEOPLE) who needs to go to a tailor. If you are perpetually ripping the ass out of your pants, that is showing that you’re fitting your pants incorrectly and through proper tailoring that can be fixed.

No, the point is that I’ve provided a cite from the leading men’s fashion magazine showing that wearing pleated pants is quite common and not considered a fashion faux pas. That was the entire point of the thread, and the entire point of my reply to it. This hijack about people who supposedly don’t know how to buy pants is pointless.

ETA: I’m not sure why you are using terms like repeatedly and perpetually when nobody has said anything about more than one instance.

[Czarcasm]

@Labrador_Deceiver

Can you even fucking read?

[Moderator Admonition]I can-it says “In My Humble Opinion” at the top of the page, not “The BBQ Pit.”
Dial it back a notch, o.k.?[/Moderator Admonition]

[Fuzzy_Dunlop]

@Labrador_Deceiver

The Fashion Guy at GQ has addressed the subject multiple times and has never wavered in his opinion that pleats are perfectly fine and often necessary, if not the height of fashion.

Yes, Glenn Obrien is ok with pleats. Every other writer and editor at GQ, all their advertisers, and everyone else who writes for mens’ fashion are anti-pleat.

For what it’s worth I specifically said faux pas isn’t the right word.

http://men.style.com/gq/fashion/styleguy/pants/406

@Glenn Obrien

Q: I work in a professional environment and understand that pleated pants with cuffs are the equivalent of a Members Only jacket. If so, why is it when I go shopping, 855 out of 900 pants in the department store are pleated with cuffs and have tapered legs?

A: Then I guess I should be angry that the waifish Dior Homme designer Hedi Slimane has made flat-fronts a religion, as I now have a dozen and a half very expensive Savile Row suits that remind you of Members Only. But somehow I am not. Fortunately, I’m the Style Guy and not the Fashion Guy, and while you certainly won’t catch me in pleats on the golf course, I will continue to wear my suits without fear of ridicule. Never fear the ridicule of a man whose butt crack is visible when he bends over in his low-rise distressed denim.** As I have stated before, pleats are a matter of engineering, not fashion**. I run much faster and jump much higher in my pleated pants, and in America, where we supersize it, they will always make sense.

[Labrador_Deceiver]

@Fuzzy_Dunlop

Yes, Glenn Obrien is ok with pleats. Every other writer and editor at GQ, all their advertisers, and everyone else who writes for mens’ fashion are anti-pleat.

You’re just plain wrong. 40 seconds on google turned up plenty of pro-pleat articles. If all their advertisers were anti-pleat, then pleated pants wouldn’t take up significant rack space at every major men’s store in the US.

[Fuzzy_Dunlop]

@Labrador_Deceiver

You’re just plain wrong. 40 seconds on google turned up plenty of pro-pleat articles. If all their advertisers were anti-pleat, then pleated pants wouldn’t take up significant rack space at every major men’s store in the US.

Why don`t you show us some of the articles, then? Maybe you could link to some ads in GQ of men wearing pleated pants while you’re at it.

[Labrador_Deceiver]

@Fuzzy_Dunlop

Why don`t you show us some of the articles, then? Maybe you could link to some ads in GQ of men wearing pleated pants while you’re at it.

Sure thing. I just opened my March issue of GQ and found 4 ads containing pleated pants before I even got to the index. (Of course, one would wonder why you would make such sweeping statements about the magazine if you don’t even read it.) They were:

Ralph Lauren
Burberry
Diesel
Phat Premium

A search on the internet turned up pleated pants by:

Ermenegido Zegna
Joseph Abboud
John Varvatos
Dolce & Gabbana

Articles I found in under a minute:

One
Two
Three
Many articles I’ve read seem to indicate that men’s fashion designers started pushing pleats again last fall.

[Fuzzy_Dunlop]

@Labrador_Deceiver

Many articles I’ve read seem to indicate that men’s fashion designers started pushing pleats again last fall.

Let’s hope it’s a fleeting trend!

[Labrador_Deceiver]

@Fuzzy_Dunlop

Let’s hope it’s a fleeting trend!

Don’t get me wrong. I hope they take that MC Hammer stuff that Dior & company released last fall out back and shoot it.

[BMalion]

Funny, almost all my pants have pleats and are cuffed. I think I look fine and so does everyone I ask.