Finding a good pair of casual pants | Opinion | postandcourier.com - Charleston Post Courier

LinaPaseddu Haziran 21, 2021

Posted: 15 Oct 2020 01:00 PM PDT

In the pre-COVID world, my daily clothing routine was this: Get dressed for work, wear that all day, come home, immediately change into comfy clothes for the evening.

Back when the world was normal, I usually wore a coat and tie to work. On most casual Fridays, I would dress down somewhat, but if I had meetings and such, I would resort to my usual attire.

And I actually enjoyed the coat and tie routine. I have a fairly decent tie and coat collection I have assembled over the years, and I derive some modest pleasure from the different combos that I can put together (all, of course, approved by my wife, who most nights was greeted with me mixing and matching and bringing some combo to her to say, "Does this match?")

But since March, I have worn a coat and tie one time. And that was to a video meeting with my department at work, and was merely done because (a) it was the last outfit I had laid out before our office shut down a month or so prior and (b) I thought it would give them a chuckle.

So most days, I don't have to get dressed for much of anything. I do go into my office a few times a week, but because of all the stuff that now is the world, there really isn't much need to get dressed up as I have in the past. But most of my work is now done from my home office, and most meetings are virtual. And since this all started in March, most of the weather has been warm, so it's pretty much shorts, a T-shirt and sandals. When I need to look somewhat presentable for a video meeting, it's shorts, a collared shirt and sandals.

In previous times, when cooler weather hit and I came home to change clothes, I would hang up my work clothes and slip into either my trusty jeans or a pair of old khaki cargo pants, both of which I've had for roughly 20 years. When the weather took a turn for the cooler recently, I realized that a good seven months had passed without me wearing long pants beyond what I don for going into the office. I went to put on my jeans and realized that they were super baggy and about to fall down. I chalk this up to a few things: (1) Perhaps like others I had shed a few quarantine pounds, although admittedly I didn't really have a lot of weight to shed and (2) more likely, the realization that these pants were really old, and reflected the fashion of 1998 beautifully.

I told my wife I was going to go and buy some new pants, because these jeans felt like, well, MC Hammer pants. She said, "Well, you buy pants like every 20 years, so this is probably the time."

While I am not at all looking to be a fashion icon in my lounging-about wear, I am very particular in what I do purchase, as I am really going for extreme comfort. I think the reason I held onto these jeans for so long is that they were kinda baggy, and I vastly prefer that over skinny jeans, which feel like they are blood pressure cuffs and would just cause me to complain constantly.

I went to a store and began browsing the racks. The first thing I noticed was the price. $44? Seriously? For pants? (I was later informed that prices had, in fact, risen on jeans over the past 20 years.)

I tried on a pair here and a pair there, and they all were just a bit too snug. I don't need the super baggy deal going on, but I've got to have a little room here. And then I spied it — over in a corner, a rack with a big sign that said, "CLEARANCE — $15." I found a pair of jeans my size, and tried them on. And it was … perfect. Apparently just recently out of fashion is just my fashion. I grabbed a couple of pairs (the tan ones are my personal faves) and headed home. Now, each morning I check the weather, and if it's going to be on the cool side, I don one of my new pairs, and am comfy throughout the day. If I am going into the office, I know these bad boys are waiting for me when I get home, to slip into and take on the evening.

I hope these are high enough quality pants that they will last be for a good while, because I really like them. And I don't plan to go shopping for casual pants again until 2040.

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Viral TikTok PSA About Pleather Zara Pants - BuzzFeed News

Posted: 14 Oct 2020 03:19 PM PDT

A 19-year-old from Putnam Valley, New York, has gone viral for sharing an important detail about a pair of pleather pants from Zara, which people should know about before buying.

The pants will make a...particular sound when you squat in them.

I'll let Julia Leonard explain and demonstrate in her viral TikTok from Tuesday.

Leonard told BuzzFeed News she had not tried the pants on at all until she wore them recently while out to eat with her family.

And as she described in her TikTok, which has already been viewed over 2 million times, when her sister dropped her phone, she bent down to pick it up, and a ~flatulent~ sound was created.

"She looked at me and I thought, That wasn't me. What the hell just happened?" Leonard said. "[My sister] was like, 'You're disgusting!'"

The teen said she finally realized when she got home that it was the friction in the design of the Zara pants that was making the noise.

"My family was cracking up hysterically," she said. "They made me do it over and over again and made a show out of it. I did a whole HIIT workout for how much my legs were going up and down."

Leonard posted the TikTok about the pants to ~inform others~, and it immediately went viral.

People are now fully informed — and completely amused.

Like her own family, strangers are now asking her to squat over and over again in the pants for their amusement.

People want her to do it in "rapid-fire mode" and record herself "drop[ping] things in front of people at the store."

From the internet's wild demands and instructions, Leonard has also realized that it's one specific squat form that causes the pants to...fart.

Leonard said she's glad people are getting a kick out of it, but she's surprised that she hasn't deterred one person from buying these pants. She said she's gotten messages from more people saying "I need this" and asking her for the specific stock-keeping unit number.

"It's just funny something so little like that could blow up so big," said Leonard. "I thought people would be like, 'I'm not buying these,' but it's totally the opposite effect. I was like, what the heck?"

BuzzFeed News has reached out to Zara for comment. We'll update if we get any breaking (wind) news.

Leonard added that many young women messaged her to genuinely thank her for brightening their day with something so inane.

"I saw a bunch of comments from girls saying, 'I was having such a bad day, I was just crying before, and then I saw this video and it really made me laugh, so thank you for this,'" she said. "It just made me happy that one small thing like that could change someone's day."