Straight Fit Chinos | 5'1 | First time trying them on | Too wide and stick with slim?
Tried on these Navy Straight Fit Chinos and I just feel they are too wide / baggy for my height / proportion (tried to get best pic angle in the store dressing room)
I could order a Green Khaki pair of Slim/Straight and compare at home in my own time (didnt have the latter in store).
What do you guys think?
EDIT: I am on a slow gym bulk and have put on weight, and so wondering if I'd outgrow the slim at some point...?
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I don't think those are too baggy tho I'd advise against navy as a color
I think this is entirely in your own head/perception of what you are used too
I wouldn't look at them and think they are wide
On my point about it being in your head/perception of them. You'll forget about it within one day of wearing them
If your pants look "too big," wear even bigger pants
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this article discusses it in more depth with some pictures to illustrate what I mean
I mean these are the slim Khaki chinos.
I do have bent knees so you can slightly see this in a somewhat slim pair.
But I guess I can try the Straight for some time.
did they have the khaki in straight fit to try on?
side by side of the khaki in slim and straight would let you see the differences more easily
I think you look good in those pants
Ultimately the outfits you wear should be about communicating yourself, but I think those look nice on you
These do not look baggy and hang more nicely than the slims.
no sadly no khaki in straight.
Ye best to do this so I'll order.
I just think even the side view they look like lots of excess material.
Look, understandably I'm not a taller guy who's more chunkier, so they is going to be more material there, but I guess I need to find that balance.
With the slim pairs there isn't enough material which is causing bunching and wrinkling. The straight pair hang nice and clean down the leg, which is better.
ah ye I did actually cuff them inwards lol, so ignore the length.
But ye I get what you are saying overall.
I'm not talking about the length, look at what's happening down the back of the leg on both pairs. The straight fit ones are a relatively clean line. The slims bunch behind your knee, down your calf and below your glutes because there's not enough material there.
Yeah so it's exactly as I was trying to tell you yesterday, these are a perfectly normal looking straight fit and not baggy or unflattering whatsoever
If anything they might be slightly small in the waist / hips based on the slight pocket flare
Ahh gotcha both thanks.
Ye I think waist is fine on a 30.
I'll order both the Khaki slim/straight and get a better comparison (with better lighting)!
What a great article
Why would you order more slim pants when everyone's telling you they don't look good
eh it's more of this.
But also I'd like to try on at home in my own space/time.
Makes a difference sometimes lol @GSH
I didnt buy the ones in the store fyi lol.
I just tried em on and took photos
It's not going to change
This isn't a lighting issue or a side by side issue it's a perception issue because you've mostly worn slim fit for years
If you wore the straight ones for a week you wouldn't notice it at all
Most of the people in this thread went through this experience, as described in the article linked above, including me
I had some linen pants I thought were so wide and big, when I pulled them out of storage the next summer after moving to wider pants they were way too slim and I had to replace them
If you want a personal anecdote, when I bought these pants early early 2020, I thought they were unwearable in most situations because they’re too wide, but now they’re like the regular width I’d wear and I wouldn’t even consider them wide
I brought those pants like almost a year ago and didn't wear it till like the last few months bc they were so mind bogglingly huge I just blanked out until smiles said it's just gray pants bro just wear it
This is obviously still baggy but I just wear the damn thing
Thanks for the above shots.
I guess my style sticks to the basic bastard where wider pants / even tops arent soemthing I'm used to.
This is what trying out offers hopefully!
if you get both try wearing the wide pants for a week and then re-comparing, you will be shocked at how much your perception changes. BB is wider these days anyway, thats why it was updated last year.
Ye hopefully I can keep the tags on if I choose to wear it lol.
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I think the thing that is the issue (and I have mentioned it so dont mean to be a broken record), is my height and straight/wider/looser fits compared to someone taller.
On Jim who is 5'6 / 5'11 who's gone from slim to straight/wide on a 34 waist and 30 length Chino/Jean, it'll look baggier for a bit as not used it, but then it'll look decent.
On me, 5'1, that same (30 wasit) 30 length Chino, will factually look much wider/bigger.
That's the main point for me.
There are a lot of folks here that wear wide pants who are under 5’5 and look good
Some you may even think are taller
Oh really? Would those pics be in #waywt ?
I promise you your height isn't an issue. Look at the photos above, where straight looks better.
Where it makes a factual difference is really really marginal: an inch wider on someone 5'1 isn't going to look proportionally that much different to an inch wider on someone 5'6 because the much more noticeable difference is the height difference, and your assumptions appear to be based on the (outdated) idea that slimmer looking is more fashionable and inherently better anyway.
https://nitter.net/dieworkwear/status/1742775542271893567
Derek wrote a whole thread on how this doesn't matter 2 days ago
with this slight addendum but your height really doesn't matter
Another thing that helps is trying on new fits, like wider cuts, with intention. In the context of an outfit. With shoes. It’s not just how they fit but how they’ll style, too, and it’s hard to get that when you’re taking a spot check photo in a dark change room with no shoes on.
I’m 5’5” and I regularly wear wider pants
Pants look fine to me! I’m also relatively short and I’d recommend sizing up in waist for extra breathing room and length so you can cuff and create a straighter line
Yo a lot of this is simply getting comfortable with stepping outside your usual box. The jeans I’m wearing in today’s fit are a “wide taper,” and when I initially got them they seemed huge, like I was wearing cartoon pants. A couple years later, and they seem like normal jeans, and not wide enough: https://discord.com/channels/1116793467654381685/1116800072093532191/1193311830630727750
I'm 5'5" too and only within the last three months of 2023 bought my first ever pair of non-slim jeans/chinos (mom just always bought me slim/low-rise Old Navy and I never gave any other thought to it) by grabbing a pair of 501s off of ebay and the JCrew classic relaxed chinos and while I still don't know a lot about fashion stuff at all and they aren't as wide as a lot of people go, I've had a noticeable boost in confidence wearing them. You get over the hurdle fast.
just to add to what charli, cdfchopper etc said about height not mattering at all. I honestly thought from all of you waywt posts that you were the same height as me and I'm 6' exactly
height doesn't play into this really the way you think it does as people above have explained
I think we look at pictures posted and look at it from your own point of view just seeing people through your own lens where everyone is the same height as you etc
Changing my height on Hinge to 6’ rn
I think with a good outfit and proportions (which you consistently do well) it just looks so good that height doesn't factor into it
Stahp you’re too kind ☺️
guess how tall I am. For bonus points guess which size I'm wearing and my waist/inseam.
5’5”
You look 5’4
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