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Are combat pants still acceptable fashion wear?

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  • #52
    vampire of kilmainham
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    That's why I'm suspicious combats might be uncool now-a-days. Didn't see them anywhere the last time I was clothes hunting a couple of weeks ago.
    there everywhere look again


  • #53
    vampire of kilmainham
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    Kasabian wrote: »
    What is the acceptable age cut off for wearing combats?
    I ask because I like to wear them with a nice pair of runners, tis a comfort thing.
    sure ya can wear them at any age if ya want who gives a sh1t what people think i most definetly dont


  • #54
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    Pants eh? Shouldn't that be trousers or shorts? Damn yankyisms!


  • #55
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Kasabian wrote: »
    What is the acceptable age cut off for wearing combats?
    I ask because I like to wear them with a nice pair of runners, tis a comfort thing.

    I'm in the wrong half of my 30's and I have no intention of wearing brogues and cardigans with black bar-man slacks.
    vampire of kilmainham wrote: »
    there everywhere look again

    Was in Debenhams and there was loads of them. ;)
    gurramok wrote: »
    Pants eh? Shouldn't that be trousers or shorts? Damn yankyisms!

    I used to say trousers but they call them pants in Cork so I converted over.


  • #56
    nyarlothothep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    Better than skinny jeans anyway


  • #57
    saa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭saa


    Well if that's what makes you feel sexy OP go for it


  • #58
    floutingmaxims
    Registered Users Posts: 764 ✭✭✭floutingmaxims


    Yes they are! Love combats.. dont own any but i want some now :pac:


  • #59
    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,784 ✭✭✭KungPao


    5 years ago the only pants I had were combats, and some trackies for work.

    I loved them then and all jeans seemed to be huge bootcut yokes that I never liked.

    Now I have no combats, I just wear slim jeans all the time.

    tbh I miss wearing combats but they just seem a bit out of fashion these days.

    That said I guarantee they'll be all the rage again in a few years.

    I always prefered the combats with the pockets on the leg to be around knee level and never on the thigh.


  • #60
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Update.

    Back from town with this stuff.

    Shirt by Quicksilver. €60

    Black Billabong T-shirt. €16

    Pants/Trousers from H&M. €30 (look a bit like these)

    Will order these runners this weekend.

    Sorted. :)


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  • #61
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    There is of course a version of the combat pants which is just pants with one side pocket and what's great about the side button or zipped side pockets is that it prevents any would be pick pocket having easy access into getting your wallet or other valuables and also prevents stuff from slipping out .Of course you wouldn't wear them at some social occasions .


  • #62
    Oh_Noes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Oh_Noes


    Latchy wrote: »
    what's great about the side button or zipped side pockets is that it prevents any would be pick pocket having easy access into getting your wallet or other valuables

    Very handy in Dickensian London.


  • #63
    sgb
    Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭sgb


    The new An post uniform trousers introduced in January 2011 are combat style, so good enough for the post person, good enough for all


  • #64
    Samich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    The first AH thread title I've had a giggle at in quite a while :pac:


  • #65
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Update.

    Back from town with this stuff.

    Shirt by Quicksilver. €60

    Black Billabong T-shirt. €16

    Pants/Trousers from H&M. €30 (look a bit like these)

    Will order these runners this weekend.

    Sorted. :)

    You never mentioned that you are a lumberjack.:p

    Just kidding.


  • #66
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Still wear them all the time.


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  • #67
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Howzit goin AH'ers.

    I'm just going in town to buy some new gear. I need a couple of t-shirts, a pair of pants and a new pair of runners.

    I was just wondering whether I should avoid combat style pants as I think they might have slipped off the acceptable gear radar.

    Bonus points for suggestion pics.

    What say y'all?

    If you have to ask you'll never get it ;)


  • #68
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Oh_Noes wrote: »
    Very handy in Dickensian London.
    Fagins boys would have had to UP their thieving skills .


  • #69
    Johro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    Biggins wrote: »
    Still wear them all the time.
    Me too. I wear what's comfortable. That would be my main consideration. Fashion schmashion.


  • #70
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Update.

    Back from town with this stuff.

    Shirt by Quicksilver. €60

    Black Billabong T-shirt. €16

    Pants/Trousers from H&M. €30 (look a bit like these)

    Will order these runners this weekend.

    Sorted. :)


    the kicks don't work that you ordered you need to be more flat and more surfed up something like a set of globes would be better if you wore dc's you'd look like a coop who wants to look like he's into the scene bra :pac:


  • #71
    Johro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Howzit goin AH'ers.

    I'm just going in town to buy some new gear. I need a couple of t-shirts, a pair of pants and a new pair of runners.

    I was just wondering whether I should avoid combat style pants as I think they might have slipped off the acceptable gear radar.

    Bonus points for suggestion pics.

    What say y'all?
    Bermuda shorts are back in. Get yourself at least ten pairs in luminous colours. You'll look the biz.


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  • #72
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    LETHAL LADY wrote: »
    You never mentioned that you are a lumberjack.:p

    Just kidding.

    Check shirts are all the rage again, in nearly every shop in town. ;)
    Snow-Monkey wrote: »
    the kicks don't work that you ordered you need to be more flat and more surfed up something like a set of globes would be better if you wore dc's you'd look like a coop who wants to look like he's into the scene bra :pac:

    I'd be a bit too mature for skater-boi runners tbh. Used to love them though.


  • #73
    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Lads, I like the comfort of a nice tracksuit around the house - if it was as simple as 'if you like it buy it' then I'd wear track-suits all the time but that's a bit simplistic.

    You feel me?
    nobody said all the time.


  • #74
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Check shirts are all the rage again, in nearly every shop in town. ;)



    I'd be a bit too mature for skater-boi runners tbh. Used to love them though.



    really ? ya mean theres and age were i have to put down my skate shoe collection and wear terribly designed bland runners that are dark creams and greens and dress like I'm unhappy ? :confused:

    seriously?


  • #75
    Jordan 199
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,048 ✭✭✭✭Jordan 199


    Nothing wrong with wearing combats. Must put on my cool Puma ones this weekend.


  • #76
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Snow-Monkey wrote: »
    really ? ya mean theres and age were i have to put down my skate shoe collection and wear terribly designed bland runners that are dark creams and greens and dress like I'm unhappy ? :confused:

    seriously?

    I don't think you have to wear ugly bland runners but I do think that skater runners are a bit youngish for someone in their 30's.

    Maybe it's just me though!


  • #77
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Disbanded the fvcking army.... NOW!..


    Woops, wrong thread :o


  • #78
    ItsAWindUp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    Was it ever acceptable to wear them?


  • #79
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    ItsAWindUp wrote: »
    Was it ever acceptable to wear them?

    Yes?


  • #80
    ItsAWindUp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Yes?

    When ?


  • #81
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    ItsAWindUp wrote: »
    When ?

    Last 10 years about?


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  • #82
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Well they're better than blue jeans that look like they were pulled off a mangled corpse, wiped off with bleach and left to dry in the bottom of a skip.
    I reckon if I put some of my old socks (with the toes gone out of them) on enough rails in enough shops, people would buy and wear them.


  • #83
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »
    I reckon if I put some of my old socks (with the toes gone out of them) on enough rails in enough shops, people would buy and wear them.

    I'll give you 15,000 Suid-Afrikaanse rand for a lorry full.


  • #84
    Cú Giobach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭Cú Giobach


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Last 10 years about?
    They were trés-cool about 25 years ago when you had to buy them in army/navy surplus stores for about £20/£30 a pair, then they just became meh when the likes of Penny's started selling them.
    Still, very handy clothing though. :)


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