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I'll try to keep this short.
I'm debating between single pleat and flat front pants. I'm in my early 30's professional and I've always worn pleated pants.
I'm 5 foot 10, 185 and around a 44 coat with a 36 inch waist. I have very broad shoulders and very big thighs. (I'm an ex football player and I still lift and run a lot).
Flat front pants in "athletic" cuts look like I squeezed my thighs into them. Flat front pants in regular 44 drops require a significant amount of tailoring and still don't look quite right after all the work done on them.
So. Is a single pleat really that bad for someone moderately young?
Anyone around my size know of anyone who makes a good flat front suit that doesn't make them look like they bought the pants a size too small?
I don't mind a single pleat, but a lot of people do. So what, exactly is the fashion faux-pas with a single pleat?
I mean, I get that Z. Cavaricci's are bad and I don't care for double pleats, but when I wander around Nordstrom's or another men's store, most of the Hickey Freeman's et al. I see have at least one pleat, usually two.
Thanx in advance.
I'm debating between single pleat and flat front pants. I'm in my early 30's professional and I've always worn pleated pants.
I'm 5 foot 10, 185 and around a 44 coat with a 36 inch waist. I have very broad shoulders and very big thighs. (I'm an ex football player and I still lift and run a lot).
Flat front pants in "athletic" cuts look like I squeezed my thighs into them. Flat front pants in regular 44 drops require a significant amount of tailoring and still don't look quite right after all the work done on them.
So. Is a single pleat really that bad for someone moderately young?
Anyone around my size know of anyone who makes a good flat front suit that doesn't make them look like they bought the pants a size too small?
I don't mind a single pleat, but a lot of people do. So what, exactly is the fashion faux-pas with a single pleat?
I mean, I get that Z. Cavaricci's are bad and I don't care for double pleats, but when I wander around Nordstrom's or another men's store, most of the Hickey Freeman's et al. I see have at least one pleat, usually two.
Thanx in advance.