EricDL
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I am a skinny guy, and I have always read on sites that flat-front pants will flatter me more. But I have also realized that the same people who give this advice might wear their flat-front pants an inch or more below the navel, which I don't like to do. As a skinny guy I like to wear my pants at or above the navel. I recently bought, in keeping with this, a pair of MTM pants, flat-front with a high rise, and side adjusters rather than belt tabs. I really like the style, except that I find that high rise flat-front pants look a bit odd when worn above the navel. Am I right in assuming that high rise pants should be pleated? Were pleats always traditional around the early 1900's on all of the high-rise trousers, in Britain and America?
I have no problem with pleats, and I feel sure that they would flatter my skinny form as well. My question is whether high rise pants should have pleats, or if traditionally some were flat-fronted as well? I have also read on websites occasionally that some people dislike pleated chinos and pleated linen pants. I wonder, if I want high-rise chinos or high-rise linen pants, should I specify flat-front rather than pleats only on these? Or am I getting mixed signals from the low rise and the high rise crowd? All that I know for sure is that I like a high rise, but I wonder if pleats on certain materials like linen are inappropriate or odd. Finally, if I have horizontal pockets on a pair of casual linen pants, which I do, is it possible that these can have pleats? Or do the horizontal pockets, which fall in front of where pleats would conceivably be, prevent the usage of pleats?
I have no problem with pleats, and I feel sure that they would flatter my skinny form as well. My question is whether high rise pants should have pleats, or if traditionally some were flat-fronted as well? I have also read on websites occasionally that some people dislike pleated chinos and pleated linen pants. I wonder, if I want high-rise chinos or high-rise linen pants, should I specify flat-front rather than pleats only on these? Or am I getting mixed signals from the low rise and the high rise crowd? All that I know for sure is that I like a high rise, but I wonder if pleats on certain materials like linen are inappropriate or odd. Finally, if I have horizontal pockets on a pair of casual linen pants, which I do, is it possible that these can have pleats? Or do the horizontal pockets, which fall in front of where pleats would conceivably be, prevent the usage of pleats?