Men’s Leggings, Joggers, and Track Pants: A Review of the Popular Slim-Fit Clothing
Introduction: General Men’s Fashion Observation
The blog post will provide you with information as you consider leggings, joggers, or track pants to your wardrobe. I will provide a description of each style, describe where guys have been wearing the clothes, and then I will provide a short review of the 5 brands I found while doing research for examples for this blog post.
In viewing social media pages, I see many of the influencers rocking their street style and gym wear with leggings. In my research, I even found that leggings and tailored sweatpants style have reached the office-dress level, for example, the Mack Weldon Radius Pant.
In my informal observation of men’s fashion selections where I live, the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, the choice leans toward slim-fit pants for the office and slim-fit, tailored sweatpants/track pants. I think that the track pant slim-fit look is neater and more adaptable with the pocket.
I get full use of my pockets with traditional pants. I use them for my wallet, keys, notes. As a result, would tend not to favor leggings, which do not have pockets. Because of the slim-fit nature of the pants, I would be selective about the things I carried so that the nice lines would not be broken.
What are Men’s Leggings Called
You may have found this blog searching for men’s leggings. You have found the right spot. Men’s leggings, sometimes referred to as “meggings” or compression pants, have been popular. The leggings typically do not have pockets, making them have an athletic purpose and use.
Joggers and Track Pants
While men’s leggings typically do not have pockets, there is a version of slim-fit, body-hugging pants that do have pockets, the jogger or the track pant. These pants typically have a related top that can be worn with them.
One Athletic track pant, Firestone II
The brand has another slim-fitting, legging offering, the Firestone II pant, https://oneathletic.com/collections/sale/products/firestone-ii-pant-black?_pos=1&_sid=02cb747e2&_ss=r&variant=31260395929677. The brand places the pant in its gym joggers category. For the fabric composition, the website mentions “poly pant,” which may mean the pant is made from polyester, similar to the other leggings.
As the Firestone pant has pockets, it can be worn in and out of the gym. If you are interested there is a top that goes with the pant, the Firestone II hoodie.
Reebok Speedwick Knit track pants
Website: https://www.reebok.com/us/speedwick-knit-track-pants/DY8036.html
Reebok has a track pant called the Speedwick Knit track pants. The track pants have pockets. The fabric composition is 100 percent polyester tricot. (If interested, see a blog post at Pinecrest Fabrics about tricot fabric. Essentially, the fabric is durable and can be worn daily.)
Box Menswear Performance Fitted Joggers
(Added 18-January-2020)
Box Menswear has a fitted jogger in black and stone. These joggers have pockets as well. The fabric composition is 100 percent polyester. The joggers appear to have a slim fit but there is a little more room than a body-hugging compression-style pants.
Tailored Sweatpants
While researching for this blog post, I found that there is another style of pant that is just about the joggers and track pants, the slim-fit sweatpants. I consider this more in the sweatpant category, so I did not cover them in this blog post. An example is the Vanquish Fitness Elevate tapered sweatpants. It appears to have been an exceptionally popular item, as it is available only in the extra-large size at the time this blog post was written (January 2020).
Jeans that Look like Track Pants
Another interesting option is slim-fitting, track-pant-like jeans. One example that I found is from Rufskin, the Slick stretch denim jeans. The fabric composition is 98 percent cotton and 2 percent Spandex. The appearance appears to be a leveled-up track pant. Like the track pants, the brand has a top that can fit with the jeans, the Trooper shirt.
Where are Men’s Leggings Worn
Leggings are athletic clothing, but men have been wearing them while doing other activities–resting at home, running errands, traveling, yoga, running, and even more-intimate moments. I will discuss men’s leggings for these purposes in the blog post below. (For legging-style pants with pockets, see the discussion of track pants above.)
Review of 5 Brands of Men’s Leggings
As there is a wide variety of activities that men can wear leggings, there are also several brands that have leggings for sale. I will review 5 below.
1 Kapow Meggings Originals
Website: https://kapowmeggings.com/collections/meggings
According to the product description for Kapow Meggings originals range, the brand’s leggings are designed to fit like a second skin. The leggings are designed with high stretch polyester and elastane. The leggings could be used for a number of activities: yoga, gym, festivals, running, accentuating one’s street style.
The company uses bold colors to make the wearer stand out and be noticed.
2 Box Menswear Total Comfort Lounge Leggings
Website: https://us.boxmenswear.com/collections/nplbfcm69meshv1p/products/mens-grey-sport-leggings
The Box Menswear leggings appear to be designed more for athletic wear (no pockets), though some of the photos I have seen on social media, buyers are wearing them for lounge activity. Of course, you could pair them with shorts or under pants (with pockets) to wear running errands, and so on.
The product description states that the fabric composition of the brand’s leggings is 95 percent bamboo cotton and 5 percent Spandex.
Box Menswear leggings, a popular item on the website, are available in grey and white. (See another blog post of this item.)
3 Adidas Saturday long tights
Website: https://www.adidas.com/us/saturday-long-tights/CY5797.html
The Adidas Saturday Long Tights, are designed for running. A more fashion-conservative black, the Adidas leggings are ventilated to keep the wearer comfortable and dry.
The Adidas leggings are made of 79% recycled polyester, 21% elastane interlock.
4 Nike Pro men’s tights
Website: https://www.nike.com/t/pro-mens-tights-5qtjmK/BV5641-451
The Nike Pro leggings are made for athletic activities but it seems that the leggings would fit well with just doing everyday duties as well.
The leggings fabric composition is body: 90 percent-93 percent polyester/7-10 percent spandex and mesh: 92 percent polyester/8 percent spandex.
The Nike Pro leggings are available in a variety of colors.
5 One Athletic MTech run leggings
Website: https://oneathletic.com/collections/leggings/products/mtech-run-legging-black?variant=31260432760909
One Athletic’s Mtech run legging is another legging made for runners (no pockets). I could not find information about the leggings’ fabric composition on their website.
+1 6 Rise active dry compression pants
Since the first publication of this post, I have found additional leggings to add to the post.
According to the product description, the active dry compression pants are meant to have have a skin-tight fit to support weight lifting, running or other athletic activity.
The fabric composition is 55 percent Nylon, 38 percent polyester, and 7 percent Spandex.
Conclusion
I have found that the leggings and track pants categories to be fairly interesting. The slim-fit pants style has been popular and I was surprised to find a wide variety of styles available.
I am interested in learning about my readers’ likes and dislikes in leggings as well as men’s fashion generally.
Have you found an item that you liked in the blog post? Perhaps your go-to slim-fit pants style was not covered in the post? Please leave me a comment below or email me at info at menswearnews.com.
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