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Avoidance of the pernicious vanity downsizing that makes it hard to know what size you “really” are.

Stitching color that matches the fabric instead of being obnoxiously contrast-y like so many pieces of sports clothing.

Lots of length in the leg so if you’re tall you should have enough.

Nice stretch to the fabric so you can move with ease but it doesn’t bag and sag.

Narrow legs that don’t catch on the chain.

Nice design touches like round corners on the front pockets and reinforced bar tacks at key strain points.

Deep pockets so if you stuff a cell phone in your back pocket it won’t pop out while you’re riding.

I don’t own a single pair of regular pants I would wear to ride 15 miles, let alone 50, but no need to hesitate with these.

The all-important crotch gusset that eliminates seams up your middle.

This little secret is so convenient I actually haven’t gotten around to hemming the pants and I’ve had them for over two months. In a feature the designers probably didn’t go looking for, it also has enough heft and crispness to take a quick fold that creates a cheater hem if you just moved and can’t find your sewing kit, and the fold stays up all day long. My mother would describe it as “a nice polyester,” which is not a phrase in which I’ve ever found any truth, but that’s as good a way as any to tell you what it feels like when you touch it. The fabric, a high-end Swiss technical fabric, has a wonderful feel to it with a brushed inside nap. I took them because they’re perfect for travel by any mode.) Outlier Tailored Women’s Daily Riding Pant–the backside view. (I didn’t take them because I planned to bike, by the way. They dried quickly and I never had any of the nasty clamminess you’d have from waterproof pants with noisy, swishy, rubberized coating–which I wouldn’t have been caught dead wearing anyway. Caught in a truly tropical downpour at a bus shelter on Long Island–the kind in which the raindrops actually bounce a foot or two off the pavement–I was delighted to see the water beading up on the pant leg just as shown on the Outlier site. The first test was when I took them on a trip to New York to deposit the lovely and talented Second Daughter for her freshman year of college at LIU Post. Since these truly are now a daily pant for me, their cost per wearing will drop to pennies in no time.

I once read the advice to divide the price of an article of clothing by the number of times you wear it to arrive at the real cost. It’s entirely possible this is the best clothing purchase I’ve ever made when you assess the functionality and design of the pants and how long they’re likely to survive as a staple in my wardrobe. I went from zero pairs of expensive pants to two in the span of about a week.Īnd I am not looking back. So in for a penny, in for a pound–I bought the gray and asked them to order the black in my size. They only had them in slate gray and I really wanted black. When I moved to Seattle to head up the Bicycle Alliance of Washington that became my excuse–after all, I’m supporting an awesome local business that supports my organization, right? Outlier Tailored Women’s Daily Riding Pant in flat black. Didn’t spring for them then, but made myself the promise that I would in the future. Last winter I tried on–and loved–a pair of Outlier Tailored women’s daily riding pants at Hub and Bespoke. So I have up until recently utterly refused to pay a price with three digits in it for a mere pair of pants even after I found a pair of good-looking bike-specific pants.īut when your pants are wrapped around your (ahem) precious parts and you’re riding for miles, they’re not all that “mere,” now, are they? The Blogspedition Goes Panting for PantsĪll my posts on wearing regular clothes address “the pants problem,” in a way, as I describe my quest for clothes in that sweet spot between Nordstrom and the bike shop–a spot that so far goes mostly unfilled by either the fashion world or the bicycling world.The Quest for the Perfect Pants for Biking: Are We There Yet? I Need to Go.

The Quest for the Perfect Pants for Biking to Work: Phase I.What else can you call it when I spend a whole week’s worth of blog posts on my nit-picky criteria, my endless hours of fruitless online shopping, and my unwillingness to spend serious coin to take a chance? As in: But I’m quite glad it did so I can write a review based on a serious use well beyond a typical commute.Īfter all, I have been known to wax a wee bit obsessive concerning pants to bike in.

I didn’t mean to go on a 50-mile test ride of the Outlier Tailored women’s daily riding pant. The outfit I wore for my 50-mile ride, but with a different bike–here I’m picking up my brand-new Specialized Globe Daily 2, a little 8-speed commuter, at Gregg’s Cycles in the Green Lake neighborhood.