These Lululemon (Men’s) Pants Flatter My Curves Like No Other
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As a curvy queer gal who likesher clothesto fit in aTimothée Chalamet–holding-a-bottle-of-sparkling-water-by-the-neck-while-casually-strolling-down-the-streetkind of way, I’ve learned to shop exclusively in themen’s section. Clothes tailored towomen’s bodiesare just not for me — they either are way too tight, are way too short, are fringed, or make my boobs andass look juicy(which may be great for some ladies, but is not my vibe). It’s not that difficult to find men’s tops andsweatshirtsthat look put together but relaxed. But below the waistline is like searching for the Eighth Wonder of the World.Men’s pantsusually make me look boxy, like I’m about to show up for a shift cleaning tackle boxes at a Bass Pro Shop.
After a depressing afternoon spent combing through pretty much every rack ofmen’s pantsin Soho, I grew resigned to a fate I call “party on top,SpongeBobon the bottom.” Then I wandered into aLululemonand found thepantsI’d been searching for my entire life: the Bowline Pant 30-inch Ultratech, in brown. I always thought Lululemon was for people who worked out with the vigor of an Olympic hopeful. Au contraire — it’s for all of us.
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Shown in copper brown, they’re available in five other colors.
The pants are basically stretchy chinos with a drawstring that can adapt to people (me) whose weight fluctuates on the reg. They’re something you can wear for any occasion — and I wear them foreveryoccasion. I wore them to an impromptu photoshoot at the Cloisters. I dressed them up with a nice shirt for a meeting with a producer. I even wore them the morning I wrote this, paired with a pajama shirt with Bieber’s face shellacked on it, when I went out to grabcoffee. The very first time I stepped out in the pants, the compliments were soaring. A woman in line at a café stopped talking to her friend about buying hertoddlera third thing from Comme des Garçons to ask me where I got my pants so she could buy some that day.ApparentlyCobble Hill moms can wear them too.
Earlier this year, after a glorious fall and winter of feeling like a celeb on DeuxMoi whenever I wore my Bowline pants, I started to dread the return of summer and shorts season. If shopping for pants is hard, shopping for shorts is truly mission impossible. Finding a good pair is a struggle for most, unless you’re Kendall or Kylie Jenner (or thisdog). I used to wear swim trunks because they were the only piece of clothing I could find that seemed halfway decent. That was, until I perused the Lululemon site to see if I could strike gold a second time and saw that it had released, what do you know,the shorts version of my beloved pants.
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Shown in a khaki color called “Trench,” they’re available in four more shades.
The shorts are the perfect length — five inches is where you want to be, friends — and they are stain-and-rip resistant, something I need because I run into my furniture at least twice a day. (The pants are just as durable — Lululemon calls them “abrasion-resistant.”) After years in which I debated whether it might be more flattering to just walk around bottomless like Winnie the Pooh, finding pants and shorts that fit the way I want off the rack felt like hitting the jackpot, or a good-good honeypot. And yes, both give me the swagger to walk down a street holding a bottle of Saratoga by the neck.
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