Men and Capri Pants

love the look - can be very very hot on the right guy

the other forum I frequent just had a great thread where all the women were falling over each other at the photos one of them had posted of her husband bbq-ing wearing only his kilt (amerikilt?)


(loving KP's comment about Amies in their mom-bought clothing - so true)

That may have been true in the fifties, but every length now that is longer than the knee and above the ankle seem to be called capris.

Whatever they're called now, I like the look of what I think of as clamdiggers on men or women. If men started to wear what I think of as capris, those that taper... I think they'd look odd aesthetically on men's bodies. Well, maybe on Nureyev... but then he was gay. But never mind that - those would have looked ok on him, rather balletic.. or torreador-ish.

Yeah, clamdiggers. J.Crew used to offer them about a decade ago.

OK, this is just peachy. Thanks Linkat.

Until yesterday, I had kinda, from a corner of my eye, semi-subconsciously picked up on there suddenly being guys going around in these sporty 3/4 length-trousers. Id kinda furtively registered it, thinking, hey thats kinda cool should perhaps get one of those some time, then forgot all about it.

Now, they're bloody everywhere. Seriously. I had no idea so many guys wore them. I see 3/4 pants all the time now! Great.

It all started at the hairdressers, yesterday. I'd just read up on this thread, was heading to meet my (visiting) dad at the restaurant on the boulevard, decided to get a haircut on my way. There's this new place, its on a quiet sidestreet right off the Liszt Ferenc Ter - the bustling square with all the terraces that fill up with both tourists and glitzy young Hungarians. (Not my kind of place really - the cafes look ueberhip, all retro and ****, but its overpriced and well, filled with tourists and glitzy Hungarian youth.)

I'm sitting there in my hairdressers chair, the wall-length mirror in front of me, reflecting whats passing by in the street outside, behind the high windows.

There were three guys with white 3/4 pants passing by, at intervals. The sporty type 3/4 pants. All the guys twenty-something, of the fit-bodied, bling-bling type.

Then I had dinner with my dad on the Andrassy boulevard, sitting outside on the terrace on the wide, leafy sidewalk. Nice place. Good for people watching. I kept getting distracted from my father's focused conversations. In addition to the three Liszt Square types, I saw, passing by:

- a beefy guy with big tattoos and 3/4 pants in camouflage print
- a middle-aged regular man with khaki 3/4 pants
- a guy of the cosy, chubby gay type, with kinda wide, darkred 3/4 pants
- same sorta guy with jeans 3/4 pants

(note, in the same time these four came by, just one woman in capris passed by)

- a kinda-yuppie twentysomething guy, wearing pale red, sportive 3/4 pants
- a new-rich type twenty-something, wearing white, sporty 3/4 pants with white sneakers and a lightblue polo shirt
- a very regular random guy wearing black 3/4 pants with a red t-shirt, baseball cap, sling-over backpack and robust shoes
- another yuppie-type, wearing sportive lightblue 3/4 pants with a blue-white striped shirt
- a trendy gay guy of the sportschool-sleeveless shirt-big tattoo type, wearing grey sporty 3/4 pants

<blinks>

Well, it kept me distracted.. convos with my dad tend to be interesting but too intense - so hey, perhaps this was just what i needed.

He's got a blind spot for where the other person is with his mind, so he never asked about the occasional note i was making

Pants pants pants..

(Can you tell I'm having trouble sleeping?)



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Link to a big picture: http://www.unterseer.de/verschiedene/16_pants&shorts_de/pg_0005.jpg
(To me, the top one here looks just plain silly, the bottom one OK-but-a-bit-boring)

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(Whats up with his right foot?)


(Soldier Schultz reporting..)

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Link to Adidas 3/4 length pants
(This one I could get ..)

... giggling at the visual nimh's created ... all those hotties ... nimh taking notes ... cursing Linkat ...

Well, design oriented person that I am, I don't get all the world angst pelted to one pants form of sorts, or anther form of sorts.

I'd say that form follows function, except that I don't care much about that.

Well, when you work it all out, let me know.

Since I have a slight skin condition on my ankles - I have stopped wearing capri pants..

But oh boy do I enjoy looking at men wearing them...

Deal is, I think these are all about to go out of style.

Still, and so, why is there such a hazzerai if guys expose an ankle or two?

Lotta freaking over a few inches.

"Lotta freaking over a few inches."

Now there's a line that's screaming out for a comeback.

Whoz Lotta ? And why is she freaking? Does she want more inches?

Looks ok to me but these are all thin men. I'm trying to imagine a chubby American male in capris. It isn't a pretty image. Do the guys who were capris also shave their legs?

I saw a guy the other day -- a very hot day -- with some nice leather sandals, khaki "capris", and a white linen shirt. He looked breezy and comfortable, I think it was a good look.

Since I saw I couple of them this morning in the town (both, on men and in shops), I just had a quick look through the major online shops: all sell them, for men, even www.usarmy-shop.de :wink:

Yet another sign that Armageddon is near.

I almost always wear capri pants along with c'boy boots and a Stetson, I am a wild kinda guy.

Noo!!

How 'bout socks?

I can just imagine a dweeb with open-toed sandles, socks, a hairy few inches of leg and capris. ewwwwwww.

There a kid in town who wears capri pants all the time. His name his Julius Kern and I think he looks quite fashionable in them...





I've ordered a pair of capri overalls from Feed and Seed's glamour catalogue, but they haven't arrived yet. When they do, rest assured, I will be posting my image.