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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
(68,644 posts)Extra points for the bare feet.
You rock!
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)for me.
I rock? Thanks! I appreciate it.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)frogmarch
(12,158 posts)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
(2,710 posts)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
(12,158 posts)maybe I'll crease one leg, and if I like it, crease the other one too.
But I do hate to iron, so....
surrealAmerican
(11,362 posts)... 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
(12,158 posts)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
(62,432 posts)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
(62,432 posts)one full leg of each
frogmarch
(12,158 posts)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
(20,176 posts)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
(12,158 posts)older than I have to.
Does the same hold true for jeans?
Chan790
(20,176 posts)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
(12,158 posts)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.
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.
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
(55,016 posts)and of course, the answer is NOT
(thinking of MFM)
How I miss MFM!
He'd have popped in with NOT, yes he would have!
840high
(17,196 posts)Another "no crease."
It's settled then.
Thanks!
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)Just wrinkles, lots & lots of wrinkles.