hard pants

I suspect the distinction between hard pants and soft pants has been around for a little while but the fact that so many of us are now returning to the office has brought it to the forefront.  It is clear that the comfortable trakkie daks that we lived in at home will not do.  The world of soft pants has been lost and the antonym, hard pants, has been created.

 Hard pants do not have stretch fabric in them so they have no give at all.  Hard pants have fitted waistlines and belts.  They have buttons that we had to fiddle with, and we have to breathe in to do up the zipper.  They are uncomfortable at the knees when we sit down.  Jeans which used to be oh-so-fashionable are now loathed. They may look great but we are the ones that have to accommodate our bodies to them whereas tracksuit pants and leggings gently hugged us in a totally forgiving way.  

 There are suggestions as to how to achieve a compromise with gateway pants, moderately fitted pants with a dash of spandex in them, but there is not a lot on offer in the semi-hard pants range.

 When we say we have to put on the hard pants we mean that there is a job that has to be done and we are knuckling down to doing it.