Technical fabrics used to mean shiny, plasticky pants that looked like you got dressed inside a sporting goods store. Not anymore. This is 12 bottoms — shorts and trousers — built from ripstop, Cordura, and performance blends that actually feel like clothes you'd choose to wear.
The range runs from Vuori's $74 Ripstop Short to Outlier's $240 Futureslimworks, with Carhartt WIP, Norse Projects, and Goldwin filling the middle. Water When Dry's Camper Short belongs on a muni or a hiking trail. 686's Everywhere Ripstop Pant lives up to the name. Fantl Sport's AllCourse Pant is engineered in New Zealand and priced like it. Nine brands, zero polyester shame. The course-to-everywhere pant is here, and it doesn't look like golf.
