Enough: Cargo Pants
Don’t we all think it’s time to say “toodle-ooo” to cargo pants? They’ve been around for a long time. Too long. When I saw silk cargo pants in L.A. a few years ago, I thought we were really at the end of that rope (or pocket, whatever). But retailers persist in adding them to new collections.
I can grant cargo pants exceptions to people on safari, in the wilderness or on fishing expeditions. Perhaps they have cargo for those pockets. Cellphones, iPods, Blackberries and other citified accoutrements don’t count. Consider a bag. The overloaded pockets thing is so 1999.
When there are TV show flashbacks to the late 1990s and ’00s, characters will be wearing cargo pants. Cargo pants are the bell-bottoms of our time, longer lived than parachute pants but just as emblematic. I’ve seen enough.