Thom Browne Style Cropped Trousers are Perfect for Bicycling

I can never remember to roll my trousers up and they don't seem to sell that clip thing here in China (though they no doubt produce it). I have mangled several trousers ankles, but I am also am too lazy to worry about it.

I'm going over to a Thom Browne length of trouser. All those jokes about the length failed to grasp their practicality.

... But are they practical once you're off the bike?

That's the questions I haven't gotten over, maybe you're just already there.

Originally Posted by erdawe

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... But are they practical once you're off the bike? That's the questions I haven't gotten over, maybe you're just already there.
that is a problem. I ride a bike every day though. Anyway, these days everyone knows thom browne anyway. His photo is even in obscure direct marketing magazines in second-tier chinese cities. People will probably just say: "Ah, the Thom Browne look." I will say "Yes, it works for bicycling." I'll come off as balsy, fashionable, and practical. It's hard to be all three.

Browne is a visionary. I think the world will learn to appreciate his style designs many years from now. I don't like his runway stuff but I can understand the exaggerated aesthetics.

Thom Browne Style Cropped Trousers are Perfect for Bicycling

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Thom Browne trousers are perfect for anything.

Originally Posted by Aperipan

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Browne is a visionary. I think the world will learn to appreciate his style designs many years from now. I don't like his runway stuff but I can understand the exaggerated aesthetics.

People who oppose browne probably don't believe in global warming. If they did, they would see the need for trouser lengths that prepare for the increased amount of flooding that will affect low level urban areas over the next seven decades. They would also immediately see that this length of trousers is perfect for bicycling, which is a way of cutting down on carbon emissions. Suburbanites with their high-consumption lifestyles and automobiles are the ones whose trousers break.

Originally Posted by babygreenspots

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People who oppose browne probably don't believe in global warming. If they did, they would see the need for trouser lengths that prepare for the increased amount of flooding that will affect low level urban areas over the next seven decades. They would also immediately see that this length of trousers is perfect for bicycling, which is a way of cutting down on carbon emissions.

Suburbanites with their high-consumption lifestyles and automobiles are the ones whose trousers break.
You just blew my mind.

Originally Posted by babygreenspots

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People who oppose browne probably don't believe in global warming. If they did, they would see the need for trouser lengths that prepare for the increased amount of flooding that will affect low level urban areas over the next seven decades. They would also immediately see that this length of trousers is perfect for bicycling, which is a way of cutting down on carbon emissions.

Suburbanites with their high-consumption lifestyles and automobiles are the ones whose trousers break.

Originally Posted by Smahatma

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You just blew my mind.
When I first saw the Thom Browne trousers, my reaction was "wow, they're really running out of ideas; that's clearly just for the runway and a few fashion slaves in Lower Manhattan" as any sensible person might think. Not that I come close to being sensible, but I'm quite sure that most on this forum do. Then, yesterday, I was forced into a pair of trousers that an incompetent tailor had shortened by about an inch and a half more than he should have. I had requested "no-break" but some Chinese tailors overcompensate when faced with requests that they deem nonsensical. It may also be that the extra inch I have put on around my waist forced me to pull the trousers up by an extra inch to a region that is still slimish. It so happened, that literally all of my other non-suit trousers that aren't in loud plaids were at the laundry or in that pile I haven't touched for three months that should be going to the laundry. So, I rode and walked around in these too-short trousers all day and, in fact, found it to be quite liberating and convenient.

Rapha is working with Timothy Everest to come up with a bespoke cycling suit.

Tuck your trousers into your socks, yes you will looks stupid on the bike, but once you get of the bike you can look normal. With the Thom Browne style you will look stupid on the bike, and then for the rest of the day.

Originally Posted by babygreenspots

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People who oppose browne probably don't believe in global warming. If they did, they would see the need for trouser lengths that prepare for the increased amount of flooding that will affect low level urban areas over the next seven decades. They would also immediately see that this length of trousers is perfect for bicycling, which is a way of cutting down on carbon emissions.

Suburbanites with their high-consumption lifestyles and automobiles are the ones whose trousers break.
You bring forth a paradox; by wearing TB and bicycling (therefore reducing greenhouse gas emissions) you're curbing global warming, thus making the benefits the trouser length provide in case of flooding moot.

this thread is becoming an existentialist dilemma

Originally Posted by axe

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You bring forth a paradox; by wearing TB and bicycling (therefore reducing greenhouse gas emissions) you're curbing global warming, thus making the benefits the trouser length provide in case of flooding moot.

You may be right, but I don't know enough about the rules of logic to know for sure.

Doesn't this speak to a paradox that would plague anyone who is both making preparations for a new world affected by global warming and, concurrently, behaving in ways that will curb global warming?

Is it a paradox if you are stockpiling food in case of a nuclear winter and, at the same time, using diplomacy to avert nuclear war?