I needed some new sweatpants (to wear around the house). It seems like I only have a handful of colors over the years (light or dark heather grey, royal or navy blue, black, & red) but there are many more colors in tops. My observation is not wrong. Why would one company produce 29 colors of tops but only 5 for bottoms? (It’s basically the same for Champion brand also)
I was examining a ~100 year old scrap quilt with my mother, and she was explaining that the scraps were red, not blue, because until the development of aniline blue, there weren’t any cheap color-fast blues available.
Which is perhaps why the iconic flannel underwear worn by back-woods gold prospectors was red, not blue.
It was nekkid as a jaybird.
I’ll hazard a guess that the answer is “experience has shown them that the other colors in pants don’t sell well enough to warrant being made.”
That attractive woman was his husband’s sister.
I just saw an article from the New York Times about how hard it is for people to try new things.
Quite an interesting choice of illustration to accompany it.
For Christmas, my wife game me a DVD collection of The Rockford Files (TV show set in 70s Los Angeles area). In the first episode, the killer wore red pants while he tracked and strangled his victim. He drove around in a red convertible Cadillac, and in a scene in the bathroom of a nightclub, Jimmy accuses the muscle-bound bad guy of compensating, because he was queer. This was to get him riled up enough to attack. Bad guy then attempts a martial arts type kick, but slips on the liquid soap Jimmy had dumped on the floor in preparation, giving him the easy opportunity to knock him out while clutching a roll of quarters. No point, just thought the coincidence was kind of funny.
Agreed. I buy my Wrangler Relaxed Fits at Walmart for $15 or so and last me a good two years of pretty frequent wearing and washing. Offer me a pair of red jeans in the same price range and availability, I may wear them now and then. I will not, however, buy skinny jeans or overly tailored pants of any color for any price. I’m not that interested in the fashion part of it. I’m all about the comfort. I’m not built for pegged pants.
Most of my clothes are blue, black, or grey. Red is too bright for me. I think I’d also worry about the dye ruining other clothes too.
I am currently wearing burgundy pants to work (with a blue checkered shirt). I’d be fine wearing red jeans, but isn’t necessarily something that is easy to find. I’m still more interested in getting a red wool coat, but it seems the vast majority of those are for women.
FTR, I’m a straight male… though I am South Asian.
- Straight 'Murican men quake in terror at the thought of ANYTHING implying ‘gay’, especially if other men will be looking at him in his fancy red pants. 2) Red clothes run and turn everything light colored pink in a washing machine. Men are always surprised when this happens. 3) No one wants to be known as ‘that guy who wears red pants’. Quite daring enough to be known as ‘that guy who wears argyle socks’. … I, as a young woman decades ago, used to wear red pants. I was young and slim, of course - now, I would no sooner wear red pants (or purple, lime green, lemon yellow, fuschia, sky blue, or screaming orange pants even though all those are in every ‘old ladies’ clothing catalog with coordinating t-shirts) than I would go nekked. No one over a certain age and weight wants to feel like they have a sign reading ‘danger - wide load’ on their butts. Dark = slimmer.
It seems a lot of folks in this thread think it’s about being (or not being) gay, but I know a lot of gay men and I don’t really associate red jeans with any of them. What I associate red jeans with, personally, is the really bad stuff parents used to dress their kids up in in the 50’s and 60’s. 
Put one of those awful cowboy hats on and give them a cap gun and you complete the ensemble. When I was a kid we had a lot of second-hand clothes and the like, and I got a lot of stuff like that. Now I conform eagerly to the custom of blue jeans (or maybe black) or dark colored slacks with, perhaps a colorful shirt (picked out by my wife, as the gods intended).
I own a pair of red Levi’s like these; they’re really black jeans dyed red. Got 'em from Marshalls or TJ Maxx or some other discount store.
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According to your post, you seem to be the origin of your perception. just sayin’
I won’t wear red (long) pants because they remind me of something a circus clown would wear. Sexuality has nothing to do with it.
Plus, red pants, white pants, yellow pants, and pastels in general would show dirt, rust, and salt stains far too easily. Brush up against a salt-stained car, dirty revolving doors, iron filings, dusty equipment bays, etc. would require/suggest that a change of pants was in order.
Time to que the calliope music when you see a man in red pants. hehehe
All I can say is that I’m not terribly fond of red jeans; I have no idea why.
Many years ago I used to have a pair of red corduroy jeans, though. Do they count?
Not jeans per se - not sure I’ve seen those since the 70’s - but I do see bright red and green trousers/chinos almost every time I eat in a country club. There are always one or two guys with bright red or green blazers or trousers. The one bright piece is always paired with white shirt and navy blue blazer/pants as appropriate. Sometimes the jacket and pants are dark but the shirt is insanely bright. On the very rare occasion I’ve seen a light pink oxford shirt paired with the green jackets.
I associate this with nerdy narcissists who want to project a “rich party animal” appearance.
This guy and his ilk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ41JGJGxYs
As to not enrage the Bulls.
The men I know wouldn’t wear them for a few reasons, those being:
- Their mothers stopped dressing them years ago when Granimals stopped fitting;
- They do not want to be soundly mocked;
- 99.5% of the people they ran in to everyday would point and laugh;
- They are self aware enough to know that they would look like drooling idiots; and
- They are an abomination and look silly as hell on anyone over 5 years old.
I have a gay coworker. He has never come to work wearing red pants, but he frequently wears wine-colored pants. I love that color, so I always compliment him on his snazziness so that he’ll keep it up.
All the other guys just wear khakis, jeans, and dark slacks. So he sticks out. But IMO, he sticks out in a good way. Wine-colored pants for everyone, I say.
This thread inspired me to buy a pair of red jeans at Macy’s today. I’ll let you know if I become a gay man.