Great features but poor fit for me

By Bretr Ranked #776 - Men's Ski Pants January 15, 2008

I tried these pants on in a North Face store but they only had the Medium and XXLarge (way to big for me). The medium fit pretty well, but was too short so I ordered the Large from Backcountry.com. Great pocket placement, very rugged material, I liked the drop seat design for when nature calls, but unfortunately the drop seat design also resulted in one key fit issue for me. They were way too big in the waiste, hips, and thighs. Seems like there was a bigger than normal difference between the Medium and Large. I am pretty average size as I wear a 33waist x 34inseam in most any brand of jean and I am 6' 165lbs. In any event I also had ordered the Cloudveil - Koven Pant in a large which fit much better and has turned out to be a great ski pant without paying the extra $$'s for TNF brand and Recco reflector since I already have one in my jacket and most ski resorts still aren't equiped & trained to get much benefit from the Recco anyway. In any event the TNF Free Thinker Pant was found to be very well made and well thought out, just didn't fit me so I returned it and am just awaiting the credit to be posted to my card. BC.com was very easy to return product also - way to go!

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