Men's Tactical Cargo Pants with Zip Thigh Pockets

Pockets that shut. Cuffs that zip over your boots.

You climb down off the machine, swing a leg over the tray, and whatever was sitting in the open thigh pocket is now somewhere in the gravel. You do not notice until you reach for it. Then you are either walking the yard looking for a knife, or you are doing the job without one.

Most cargo pants sell you the pocket and forget the closure. These ones zip. The thigh pockets shut, the hip pocket shuts, and at least one rear pocket shuts in every colourway the supplier photographed. What goes in stays in while you are bending, kneeling and climbing.

The hems open with a full-length zip on each ankle, so the cuff widens over a boot instead of you fighting it down over the laces. The knees are cut from shaped panels rather than one flat piece, so the leg folds with you when you crouch.

They look like army trousers. That is styling, not provenance. They are not military issue, they are not certified workwear, and the supplier does not publish what the cloth is made of. All of that is set out under Limits further down, in plain terms.

What It Does

• Keeps small kit put: zipped thigh, hip and rear pockets close, so a phone or a knife is still on you when you climb down.
• Opens at the ankle: a full-length zip in each hem widens the cuff instead of leaving you a fixed opening.
• Bends at the knee: shaped knee panels rather than a single flat leg piece.
• Takes a work belt: standard belt loops with a button waist and a zip fly.
• Five colourways: camouflage, khaki, grey, army green and black, all at the one price.
• Eleven sizes: the supplier numbers them 27 to 38 and sizes them off your height and weight, not your waist.

Key Features

• Zipped thigh pockets: two zip openings sit on the thigh in the photographed sets, so the contents cannot tip out when you bend.
• Full-length ankle zips: each hem opens down its whole length, shown open and closed in the supplier photographs.
• Panelled knees: shaped seams across the knee so the cloth folds instead of pulling tight.
• Zip fly and belt loops: button waist, zip fly, loops sized for an ordinary work belt.
• Zipped rear pocket: welt pockets at the back, at least one of them zipped in every colourway shown.
• Mid rise, wide leg: a full-length loose cut rather than a slim one, so it sits over a boot.
• Decorative thigh patch: an embroidered eagle-and-shield badge with an "AIRBORNE" tab sits on one thigh in most colourways. It is decoration and nothing else.
• One price across the range: every colour and every size is the same, so pick on fit and not on cost.

Limits

• Not military issue: the eagle patch, and the "U.S. ARMY" embroidery that appears at the rear waist in some photographs, are decoration on a commercial garment. They carry no service, no unit, no approval and no entitlement of any kind. Wearing them does not make this issued kit and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
• Not certified workwear: no standard is printed on the garment and the supplier claims none. There is no flame, arc, cut or high-visibility rating, and no part of these is tested or marked to AS/NZS 4602.1 for high-visibility garments or EN ISO 11612 for heat and flame. If your site specifies rated trousers, these are not them.
• Not waterproof: no water-repellent finish is stated anywhere by the supplier. Woven cloth in steady rain will wet through, and we are not going to call it water resistant without something behind the word.
• Fabric is not published: no composition label appears in any supplier photograph and no percentage is stated on the listing. We are not going to put a figure on cloth we have not seen a label for.
• Sizes are not waist measurements: 27 to 38 is the supplier's own numbering. The only sizing data that exists is the height-and-weight chart, reproduced in full under Specs. No waist, thigh or inside-leg measurement is published in centimetres.
• The pocket layout varies: two different photo sets are in circulation from this supplier and the thigh pocket arrangement is not identical between them. Expect zipped thigh pockets; do not count on an exact pocket count.
• No belt included: belts and boots appear throughout the photographs. Neither is listed as part of what you receive.

Q & A

I am 178 cm (1780 mm) and 82kg. What size do I take?

The supplier's chart puts you in a 34. Find your weight down the left-hand column of the chart under Specs, your height across the top, and read the cell where they meet. Where a cell shows two numbers, such as 33/34, the supplier is telling you it falls between the two sizes.

Is the size number my waist measurement?

No, and there is nothing to convert it from. The supplier publishes no waist measurement for this garment at all, in any unit. The height-and-weight chart is the only sizing information that exists, which is why we have published the whole thing as text rather than leaving it buried in an image.

Will the camouflage look like green bush camo?

No. The camouflage colourway is a grey, white and black urban pattern, not a woodland green one. If green is what you are after, the army green is a solid colour and the closest thing in the range.

Can I wear these on a mine site or a construction site?

That depends on what your site specifies, and your site rules are the thing to read. These carry no standard marking of any kind, so where rated or high-visibility trousers are required, they will not satisfy it. They suit the drive in, the tools at home, the farm and days off.

Do the ankle zips go over boots?

Each hem carries a zip that runs its full length, so the cuff opens right out rather than staying a fixed circle. The supplier's photographs show them worn both over boots and gathered inside them. No cuff opening is published in centimetres, so we cannot give you a number for it.

What is the cloth actually made of?

The supplier does not say. There is no composition label in any of the product photographs, and the one supplier panel that lists features has its caption boxes left blank. The cloth reads as a woven twill in the images, but that is a comment on a photograph rather than a specification, so it is not going in the table as one.

Specs

Supplier Size Chart

This is the supplier's own chart, reproduced exactly as published. Read your weight down the left and your height across the top. Two numbers in a cell mean the size falls between them. Blank cells are combinations the supplier does not size for.

The supplier's chart is not perfectly consistent — a few cells step down where you would expect them to step up. We have reproduced it as published rather than tidying it, because the tidy version would be our guess and not their data.