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there are tons more than 5 styles for guys (workwear, techwear, superfuture, dark, etc) but strongly agree that there are enormous differences in male vs female clothing trends.

Male fashion is on something like a 10 years cycle and you can find tons of brands focusing on quality or durability.

Female fashion seems to obsess about the latest trend and change dramatically every 3-months to a year.

Probably lots of cultural bias there, not sure how much this applies in all countries.

I kinda hope that fast fashion is not what's going to survive, between ecology and employment practices, they are not really my favorite.

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I've always believed that the pants are almost meaningless, it's the shirts that need to be different daily.

So I used to have 8 pairs of pants, 2 colours total. Black and beige. Then, once a year, I'd go buy 2 more pairs of each colour. On a 'bad' year, I'd buy 4 pairs. EG, I'd rotate the worn out, always only having 8 pairs.

This persisted until, 20 years later, the company that sold them went bankrupt. As my gut and ass had literally grown to into the form / shape of these pants, drooping and expanding to perfectly fill these specific pants, no other pants I tried seemed even remotely comfortable. Or to even fit well!

So I tried to find the company that made them... note, this was very early internet, and I had to go old-school. Finally called the trustees handling the bankruptcy, eventually found out where the pants were made, called them, and?

It was in Mexico, and they made custom for a variety of retailers. And none were left, no matter how I begged.

Two things:

1) Don't wear the same pants for 20-30 years, while you gain your middle-age gut and ass. Just don't.

2) Always have a pants fallback plan.

As one data point, I am pretty tall, relatively slim but do exercise. Good fitting shirts in casual chic styles are extremely easy to find, but pants are very hard (and it seems to be the same for most people).

> As my gut and ass had literally grown to into the form / shape of these pants

It sounds a lot like you are wearing clothes that are too small for you :)

Regardless, I would be very surprised if there were no equivalent. There are even many brands dedicated to reproduce old garments (off the top of my head, TCB denim does that for jeans)

> Don't wear the same pants for 20-30 years, while you gain your middle-age gut and ass. Just don't.

I'm 60 and absolutely fine with the same sizes and basically the same cuts that I've worn for more than 40 years. If something starts squeezing, it's a timely reminder that I need to adjust some behaviour, not a signal to give in and upscale my wardrobe.

I've been out of high school for 35 years, and I still wear the same W/L jeans size I did then.

> while you gain your middle-age gut and ass

The problem isn't the pants, its your lack of fitness. You act like becoming overweight in middle-age is an acceptable thing.

You can always get custom-tailored clothing. If it's that big a deal, it's not that expensive. Especially in Asia but, again, if it's a big deal...

You can probably change #1 in about a year. Maybe 1 hour a day of work.

Weird reading this in a country where pants = underwear.

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