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Seem impossible to find. Who do I complain to? Should we start a campaign?
I am not an unusual shape really 5'10, 12 stone, 32 waist. However it seems almost impossible to find trousers that fit due to my mighty thighs of powa! anything that goes round my legs and arse has several inches spare at the waist. All that cycling meaning such butch muscles.
Surely I am not the only one with this issue?
Dress trousers are OK if you can find ones with a pleated front ( rare these days) but softshell walking trousers and casual trousers are just the wrong shape.
Tell me I am not the only one please!
The recent thread on Spoke chinos might be of interest, but they're not cheap...
Nope; you’re not the only one. The prevalence for flat fronted-trousers, and the recent carrot taper or skinny trend means it’s rare to get a suitable cut without having to sew brace buttons on. I found Toast, Boden, M&S can provide a decent fit. My experience of Spoke (‘C’ shape) was not great, but their refund policy and service may make them worth trying - think that there is a £25 discount code at present.
I bought a pair of skinny trousers to go with a drape coat for a party. had to get a huge waist to go round the mighty thighs of POWA!
Jackamo ?
Elasicsted waist band?
Just joking ,I have the same problem.
Wasn’t there a thread years ago where folk measured their strapping thunda thighs? Or is that just my partridgesque fantasy........
Khul (once you get past the name) tisos have a sale now too.
Definitely not the only one.
Find someone who is handy with a pattern and a sewing machine et voila, custom trousers for your shapely and excessively proportioned thighs.
Kuhl Kanvas are my faves - pretty durable and pockets big enough to carry the stuff I need. Look more like 'work' trousers than hiking trousers too - hiking trews are just naff.
maccruiskeen wins!
I never seem to have this problem. Just go shopping, try on some in various shops and buy whatever fits. (171cm tall, 73kg, 76cm waist if you're asking). Walking trousers, softshell, waterproofs, jeans etc.
Have you considered just wearing shorts?
For Jeans, Levi 541 Athletic Fit are worth a look. Normal sized waist but bigger in the thighs and calves.
Same problem here. I have some Trespass walking trousers that are great and tried a few others from them that were also good. What you need is stretchy panels or completely stretchy.
Now... At the risk of being called a very modern gentleman, I've been wearing a pair of these. Big thighs, ample arse room, narrowish calves, lots of pockets etc.
I had the same issue for years. Say had, get jeans with stretch. Revolutionary!
As for dress trousers/suit -slaters do free alterations so go there.
maccruiskeen wins!
they're spandex
Gap do an “athlete fit”
which finally solved this problem for me.
they only do jeans, but Athlete Denim are great & made to solve this problem. Not bad price either considering they are ethically made in the UK.
+1 for gap. Their Athletic fit are the ones to go for.
Stretch jeans? Its not the 80s and I am 58. any man over the age of 30 wearing jeans needs to have a word with themselves!
Scotroutes / Esme - with legs like mine? I'd be beating them of with a stick 😉
any man over the age of 30 wearing jeans needs to have a word with themselves!
You can either carry it off or you can't. We've been through the style wars before TJ. You know it won't end well for you.
I was gonna recommend Carharrt, which fit nice on my mighty oaks.
But I think they might be a bit too hip and happening for you grandpa.
Ooooh - handbags scotroutes / cha****ng.
You either have style or you don't. a basic rule is if clarkson would wear it its got no style. so no jeans over the age of 30!
🙂
In all seriousness a couple of ideas there - ta
Stretch jeans? Its not the 80s and I am 58.
They're not stretch jeans, they have a little stretch in the material, but they're just jeans, and they do these in chinos as well.
any man over the age of 30 wearing jeans needs to have a word with themselves!
About what? Just sounds like some arbitrary age limit you've decided randomly apply to what other people wear
About getting a grip! If the "jeans" have stretch they are not made of denim ( serge de Nimes ) and thus are not jeans. Levi 501 are the only permissible jeans and only on those younger than 30. Did you not learn these things at school? What sort of schools did you go to? Next you will tell me you wear brown shoes in the city and have cappuccinos after lunch! Or even worse Lattes at any time!
if you don't understand I cannot explain.
Clothes - just another thing you have no ****ing idea about.
Try having a look at the Prana Bronson, I really like my (several) pairs.
And get over yourself about the “jeans” thing.
If folk above whatever age you’ve decided is the age to argue about want to wear them, then that’s their choice, and it needn’t affect you. Move on.
At least I don't dress like Clarkson! Middleaged men in jeans attempting to recapture their lost youth. Tut!
Fashion Nazi trousers suitable for OP 👍
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Why would you care? Surely once middle aged you’re free to wear what you want. Currently 45 sat in black 501s with a tee from an obscure eighties thrash metal band and a hoody.
🙂
Perhaps just step too far zilog. I was thinking more red trousers and a blazer. 🙂
The uniform of a gammon! That’s even worse!! 😀
Try dockers for khakis/ chinos etc. Big range of fits.
No issue with trouser fit here, including skinny jeans.
No issue with trouser fit here, including skinny jeans.
Quite. "cyclist shaped" is just another way of saying "fat thighs" for those not willing to face the truth
e-bikers obviously.
I thought there was an alternative solution north of the border...?
+1 for the Prhana Bronsons. Very roomy and nice big pockets. I have several pairs for the oversized thighs and rotund bottom.
Thats the final straw scotroutes At least my "fat thighs" are not attached to stumpy wee legs!
have stretch they are not made of denim
Denim just means that the weft has gone under two or more weaves (or the other way round, cant remember), and one is dyed blue and the other left white. 501's are pretty rubbish if they don't fit!
I have some Brasher stretch trousers from Millet's which are comfortable and look ok. As a 65 yr old my only other legwear are my 501 selvedge. Unwashed of course, which act as compression tights.
I suffer from fat thighs. 183 cm and 69 kg. Pretty much all the trousers I can find that fit over my thighs without being uncomfortably snug I can remove without undoing the fly/button. Usually end up with an annoying amout of fabric scrunched up under the belt I need to keep them up.
Levi 501 are the only permissible jeans and only on those younger than 30. Did you not learn these things at school? What sort of schools did you go to? Next you will tell me you wear brown shoes in the city and have cappuccinos after lunch! Or even worse Lattes at any time!
if you don’t understand I cannot explain.
Levi’s are terribly made and the cut is not good. Nothing wrong with wearing well cut selvage denim with a decent rise and taper if you are ‘middle aged’ and knowing what to wear with it.
Clarkson looks like a sack of shite because he’s in bad shape and none of his clothes are well cut, nothing worse than a saggy pair of jeans and a billowy muffin top shirt tucked in.
UK men are the worst dressers, the Scandinavians and Italians have got it right.
As for cyclists trousers, Edwin ED-55 in chino or denim has good thigh room to waist ratio.
Eat some cake and buy some 34" trews. It works for me 😉
Levi’s are terribly made and the cut is not good.
indeed. Having been so precious about their brand back in the day they seem to pass off any old shit as their flagship '501' now - fit, and quality of material and construction (even to the extent of having bits missing) is all over the place.
the Scandinavians and Italians have got it right.
And do you see them wearing jeans when over 30?
And do you see them wearing jeans when over 30?
You've got very old fashioned ideas about age. (must be the company you keep 🙂 )
Denim just means that the weft has gone under two or more weaves (or the other way round, cant remember), and one is dyed blue and the other left white. 501’s are pretty rubbish if they don’t fit!
Precisely which is why they've been around long before they were named Denim.
Actually drac denim is from Serge de Nimes - a cheap strong cotton died blue meant for workmans clothes.
And do you see them wearing jeans when over 30?
Scandinavian Aksel Lund Svindal, age 36 wearing jeans
He has some pretty fat thighs. Wonder where he gets his trousers.
Actually drac denim is from Serge de Nimes – a cheap strong cotton died blue meant for workmans clothes.
Originally known as Dungaree.
Diesel Larkee jeans have a decent fit for those of bigger thighes/calves.
It's the calves that I find give me the problem now.
these were suggested on here once :
Kuhl +1.
Perhaps I don't possess awsum powah's but my 42yr old legs fit nicely into Levi 512 slim taper fit jeans in the correct waist size for me too (30" if you're interested).
Sometimes I do wonder if this whole cyclist = epic thighs thing is more to do with how you're put together than the fact that you ride a bike, as in, if you're massive legs don't fit in normal trousers, then I doubt they would if you didn't cycle, unless you're some kind of mega wattage track sprinter or something.