Mighty Morphin Tactical Pants (aka Convertible Cargos)
Scottevest Ultimate Cargo Pants
What are convertible cargo pants? For starters, they aren’t just pants you can wear in a drop-top.
At the start of the millennium, the lightweight trousers that zipped off to create shorts were all the rage. Nowadays, you can still find the pants, but more than likely outdoorsy folks will be sporting it rather than collar-popped college types.
We heard through the grapevine that Tru-Spec by Atlanco is planning to release a convertible pant. The design will follow Tru-Spec’s original 24-7 Series pant except with zip-off ends, of course. Keep an eye out for the pants’ debut later this year.
SeV/Scottevest carries khaki Ultimate Cargo Pants ($70) that convert into shorts. It’s a lightweight linen/cotton blend with 16 pockets and magnetic closures. Meanwhile The North Face also offers a convertible pant ($65-$75) in dune beige, asphalt grey, new taupe and soil brown.
On the lesser-expensive end of the spectrum, Eastern Mountain Sports has its Touring Zip-off Cargo Pants on sale for $41.30. Moreover, Wal-Mart has a No Boundaries cotton convertible pant on clearance for $10.
Shockingly enough, not everyone is a fan of this mighty morphin’ tactical pant. Last week, someone asked on Yahoo! Answers if anyone wanted to help bring back cargo zip-off pants. While one person supported this mission, others vehemently opposed.
“Not only do I not want to bring back the zip off shorts cargos, I would ban all cargo pants from the planet if I could,” wrote on responder. “The only exception would be if you were actually on safari.”
Another person proceeded to diss tac pants altogether: “I don’t need my pants to have 5 extra pockets that I’ll never use.”
Uh, we hate to break it to you, but most tactical cargos have more like 8 to 10 extra pockets. Never seen someone turn their cargos pants into shorts in mere seconds? Brace yourself…
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on March 11, 2010 at 6:52 am
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I think they would be useful–though I confess, I lack fashion sense if that is the argument against.
on June 11, 2010 at 8:10 pm
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Here’s a source where high quallity zip of cargo pants are available at a very reasonable price. Ships worldwide.