I recently bought three pairs of these pants for just under $12 each. I will be returning two. I used the third for my full workout: treadmill, stairs, resistance training, etc.; just over two hours worth. They failed, but my wife won't let me return them after I used them. However, I found out the best purpose for them: lounge pants...maybe.
Don't get me wrong, I love the feel of the fabric and having four pockets, two with zippers, would normally be great. Also, the cuffs on the leg bottoms are just loose enough not to feel constricting when the pants are pulled on or off.
However, and it's a BIG however, the waistband and string tie are terrible. I'm 74 years old and have worn lots of different brands of sweatpants over my lifetime. None of them have had such a terrible waistband/string tie combo as these pants.
ALL of the sweatpants I've ever worn have a waistband with elastic strength that makes the string tie almost unnecessary: not too tight, but not too loose either. These pants have a waistband with elastic guaranteed to let the pants fall to one's ankles very easily. The waistband elastic is almost non-existent, providing almost no holding-up power to the pants.
The string is also terrible. Tie it tight or loose and it will untie very easily allowing the pants to fall to one's ankles as the waistband alone has no holding power. The strings are made of material that is more like those of men's dress shoes than sneakers: they simply don't hold any knot for much time. They are also not long enough so that having them on the outside, rather than the inside of the waistband, just makes it more likely that the short knot created will catch onto something, anything, that will easily untie the knot allowing the pants to fall one's ankles. Not that the string tie needs much help to untie anyway. Additionally, the string tie has no elastic in the string, no "give" when one needs to open the waistband a little when the string is tied. No decent elastic in the waistband, no elastic at all in the string, and not enough friction in the string to keep a knot from easily unraveling.
If you don't care about how well they will stay on your waist, rather than your ankles, they *might* make good lounge pants. If you also don't care about anything I've written, I'd at least advise you to keep the pockets empty as putting anything into the pockets will just help the pants' inevitable fall to your ankles.
It's as if two teams worked on these pants. A team that performed good design work on the fabric, bottom cuffs, and pockets. While another team performed lousy design work on the waistband/tie string combo.
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