Pull-on dress pants for tall skinny boys
Tall, slender boys often need a much smaller waist size than their leg length requires, meaning pants sized correctly for length will fall off or look silly when heavily cinched. This makes it incredibly difficult to find comfortable, stretch-fiber pull-on pants that look dressy without fitting poorly.
What people tried
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Pull-on dress pants for tall skinny boys
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In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“My son is 7 and is very slender. He wears a size xs(or 5t) in the waist but in that size the pants are way too short. He needs a size m(or 8) for the length to be correct but then they are falling off and huge in the waist and legs.”source ↗
“sometimes it looks a bit silly because my boys are also very skinny and tall so I have to tighten them a lot.”source ↗
“My super tall 10 year old could probably still wear 6/6x (in waist, needs a lot more length)”source ↗
“Now, if someone would make shorts that are tall and narrow, that would be lovely.”source ↗
“For most pants, my 9 year old needs 10-12 in length and my 12 year old needs 14-16. Both could easily wear 7-8 in the waist.”source ↗
“I’m looking for pull on pants, with stretch fiber that are dressy looking for boys”source ↗
“old navy used to have these amazing tech taper pants that looked like dressy chinos but were very comfortable for Sundays or when you need something nicer.”source ↗
“Ideally something like a golf type pants, but pull on and not skinny cut”source ↗
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