Pleated slacks are back in style

[quote] Do we like it, DLers?

Could have been an interesting thread but you ruined with "we." There is no we here.

Is there nothing that the young will not stoop to scrape from the bottom of the cultural and aesthetic barrel?

No. Too soon. Way too soon.

I’m still staring at the term: “slacks,” and wondering what that person looks like.

What's wrong with slacks?

I'm not going back to pleated slacks. I don't care what the kids are doing.

I've never gotten gay pleatophobia.

I'm sorry, OP, but the are "rocking" pleated slacks? "Rocking"?

Anyway, pleated trousers are more for overweight people, aren't they?

Awful.

So, men in LA are stupid. That's not news.

I like them. speaking as a diehard fan of awfully shapeless cargo pants.

...i.e. they look comfortable and tidier than cargo pants.

And just because some delusional gays are “rocking” onesie-shorts does not mean sensible men will follow suit.

Are pleated slacks the same thing as chinos?

Pleated slacks are comfortable to wear when you have a tummy. I personally don't like them because all the fabric bunches around the waist - particularly when seated. I prefer a flat front.

they're good if you have a big booty too

As a friend once told me, if you wore it the first time it was in fashion, then you're too old for it the second time.

Youngsters are wearing them to be ironic. "I'm so cool I can wear Dad pants and still get laid.

Early 90s pleated realness

Pleats are NOT a friend of the fattie. They accentuate a big pot belly.

Thanks r17. I wore them in the mid 1990s as a kind of retro slightly yuppie style. I was skinny with a big butt.

Pleats are girly

It looks cool or trendy if you are a slim 20 something. If you are a 30+ manager of some sort it will look as bad as it did in the 80's.

What's next, double-breasted jackets??

[quote] What's next, double-breasted jackets??

Probably - fashion recycles ...

I like it because it comes across as like grabbing Dad's slacks because you need to get to the beach and have nothing else clean or are stopping business for the desperate need to skate. It has a sort of punk-prep spirit.

I can't think they are attractive except on tall thin, types.

Pleated pants hide a multitude of sins. You boys know what I'm talking about.

Me thinks OP is an elder gay trying hard to make his old pleated pants happen again.

pleats in slacks are friends to no one. it is a horrible design and extremely unflattering. we just got rid of the unflattering muffin top slacks so now we have to go to the unflattering pleats in slacks?

They're ugly and make you look like you have a gunt. If you enjoy those two things, pleated trousers are for you!

R30 Anything to finally put down those horrific skinny jeans/slacks/jeggings for good. Those horrible things just won't die. They make even the most virile guy look like he's trying to be a 12 year old girl.

We're living at a time when all kinds of different styles and trends can live together.

Men aren't going to give up their pleatless pants. The look is sleek and manufacturers are happy because they're cheaper to produce than pleated pants.

They look okay in OP’s photo.

IMO, pleated pants only look presentable if one is very tall. Otherwise they look dumpy.

I have several pair in denim. They hide our gunt very well!

Good look, relaxed and sporty

Airport chic

Pleated jeans next.

Most clothing designers are uncreative, so they mine past decades for their current collections, and the young customers seek to separate themselves from the previous generation, and the fashion wheel turns once again, and, voila, we have pleated pants selling for $400 to 23 year old shop bottoms who’ve maxed out their credit cards for the perfect “look”.

I don't quite look like photo at r40 but I am 20 years beyond being able to wear pleated slacks.

One imagines, r8, that hell is reserving a Very Special Roasting Pit for the nincompoop who turned "rock" into a verb.

Fuck you, r43.

I rock and I seek to rock every day.

I will never return to pleated pants. NEVER!

Where do people say "slacks"?

Here, there, everywhere R46. Everywhere where dry humor is appreciated.

Assisted living, R46

Gross me out the door and down the road to Men's Wearhouse

My mother was born in 1922. She calls them "slacks".

"are rocking"??? I strongly suspect OP is a mug-cradler.

Hate them and won't wear them.

#DadPants

You'll wear them if I tell you to wear them!!!

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Please post a photo of your big butt, r21. It would greatly cheer me up.

I thought pants are identified as "slacks" for women and "trousers" for men?

I loved them and wore the hell out of them,but like another poster said,20 years beyond being able to wear them. I think they give a nice polished look to a man.

Pleats would put a crimp in my style.

lol R56 but at this stage I would have to diet, lose twenty kilograms and spend plenty of time at the gym if I wanted to find some tops. I've been told I look like a total bottom. Loving this thread.

"We" do not follow what's "rocking" especially when brought up by an old fart long past a 30" waist.