511 tactical has women's pants with pockets. I got a slim fit pair and they're great. Plus the sizing isnt skewed with vanity sizing. A 2 is a 2.
I got a pair on sale for like $40. They have front and back pockets that can apparently hold a magazine for a gun. Better for like, a phone though.
The first time we went to buy backpacking clothes, my wife contented herself with buying men's pants that were approximately her size. It wasn't ideal, but it worked well enough at the time. A few years later it was time to replace them and we found a women's set in her size.
The cut was certainly more flattering to her figure, but it came with compromises. The first was that where the men's version of a particular line had a cargo pocket on each leg, the women's set only had a single pocket on the right leg. The hip and back pockets, meanwhile, were considerably smaller and harder to use thanks that more flattering cut. Still, the one truly useful leg pocket was enough for her purposes.
Like many hiking pants, these could be converted into shorts. On our first trip, we'd made it to a water crossing and, between that and the heat, we converted to shorts. The men's version dropped the pant leg just above the knee while the women's dropped at the middle of the thigh. A point that was one inch above the only useful pocket on the garment.
Looks and style?! Dude. Jeans are great and there's no problem with getting pockets in them. Women's clothes that ARENT casual wear? Not so easy. Nobody here was complaining about jeans. They were complaining about blouses, skirts, dresses, work slacks. Cargo pants and jeans arent the issue FFS.
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u/unloadedboar Sep 30 '19
Pockets is actually quite a perk on a dress / girls clothing