Pants - crease or not?

[frogmarch]

I have some cotton fleece straight-leg pants that don't look like sweatpants, and I'd like to know if I should press creases in the pantlegs or leave the legs uncreased. I'd like to wear the pants with a medium-gauge knit sweater and black flat ankle boots.

I'm 70 and don't need to, or want to, look cool, just presentable and not ridiculous.

Creases, or not? .



EDIT: I'm 5'7" and weigh around 125, if it makes any difference.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Only if you plan to kill a man. A very dangerous man.

Extra points for the bare feet.

You rock!

[frogmarch]

3. I'm afraid those days are over

for me.

I rock? Thanks! I appreciate it.

[cyberswede]

2. I'd skip the creases.

[frogmarch]

4. Thanks. I like the way

they look without creases, but I don't trust my style sense any more. I'll go uncreased.

They look better with my higher heel boots, but I look gangly when I'm taller.

[My Good Babushka]

5. Creases would look nice and more tailored

but they are black, so even if you crease them, they might not really show that much anyway... and there's all that extra work. I wouldn't do it, but I really hate ironing.

[frogmarch]

6. I do too! Hmmm...

maybe I'll crease one leg, and if I like it, crease the other one too.

But I do hate to iron, so....

[surrealAmerican]

7. Will the fleece even hold a crease?

... or will the creases just disappear in a couple of hours?

Personally, I wouldn't, but I probably wouldn't be ironing them in the first place.

[frogmarch]

8. I hadn't thought of that!

I'll bet they wouldn't hold a crease. Maybe I'm off the hook.

Not sure where I last saw my iron anyway. Or if I'd know it if I saw it.

[rurallib]

9. how about one of each and then adjust the losing leg based on comments

[frogmarch]

10. haha!

Ding! We have a winner! One of each it shall be, with the losing leg receiving adjustment.

I hate to ask, but do the backs of the legs get creased if the fronts do?

[rurallib]

12. but of course

one full leg of each

[frogmarch]

13. I thought so, but I

started to wonder after seeing a pants ad online that said "with front creases," implying that the backs of the pant legs were without.

Now I know. Full leg of each. Thank yew.

[Chan790]

11. No on creases.

Not unless you want to look old. The same goes for pleats.

Flat-front pants should not be creased. That's kind of the point of "flat-front" (e.g. non-pleated)

[frogmarch]

14. Well, I don't want to look

older than I have to.

Does the same hold true for jeans?

[Chan790]

15. I never crease jeans.

I'm fairly anti-crease, except on slacks and suit-pants that look like they need one. I guess they could work on jeans...it seems like the sort of thing my mother would do though.

She has awful sense and instincts in men's fashion. I cringe every time I have to go clothes shopping or I know she's going to buy me clothes. (I don't need clothes. She disapproves of my clothes.)

[frogmarch]

17. With jeans I find they

naturally get a loose crease in the dryer, but I never intentionally crease them.

It's hard being 70. I don't want to dress too young, but at the same time I don't want to dress old either.

If your mom is anywhere near my age, I can relate to her awful fashion instincts. I was something of a hipster in my day, but now I'm pretty clueless.

[Chan790]

19. 57.

No. She thinks that all fashion trends past 1985 are "tacky"

She's really into buying me Cosby sweaters and likes mullets. She thinks men should have feminine long hair...like Fabio. She makes my stepfather dress like some sort of redneck from the 1980s...a cross between "Achy-Breaky"-era Billy Ray Cyrus and Don Johnson in Miami Vice. A mullet in a leather jacket with stone-washed jeans and NASCAR tees.

[frogmarch]

20. Well,

I like the mid-80s look too, including mullets, but I wouldn't try to impose the mid-80s on anyone in my family. Okay, maybe I would, but only in a laid-back, passive aggressive manner. They'd be looking all 80s cool without knowing what hit 'em.

[Kali]

16. the question is "Pants or Not?"

and of course, the answer is NOT





(thinking of MFM)

[frogmarch]

18. :-D

How I miss MFM!

He'd have popped in with NOT, yes he would have!

[840high]

21. No crease.

[frogmarch]

22. Good.

Another "no crease."

It's settled then.

Thanks!

[HarveyDarkey]

23. No creases

Just wrinkles, lots & lots of wrinkles.