The Biggest Cargo Pants of the 2000s Are Back at the Mall

Abercrombie’s cargo pants had been essential to the model’s enchantment within the early 2000s, when its signature look—polos worn collar popped, flip-flops worn all over the place they shouldn’t be—was on the top of its affect. However because the all-American label continues to shrug off the vestiges of its sweat-drenched, cologne-doused heyday, its perspective has reoriented itself accordingly. Gone are the gleaming washboard abs and seamy Bruce Weber campaigns, and of their place is a heightened deal with traditional, nouveau prep menswear.

And but, as Y2K-era style creeps again into the consciousness, Abercrombie has slowly woken as much as the gold buried in its archives. Living proof: Earlier final week, the model re-issued a model of the cargos as soon as nearly inescapable in meals courts and highschool cafeterias throughout the nation.

Very like the originals, the pants are finished up in a closely pre-faded ripstop material outfitted with a webbed D-ring belt, and boast the requisite surplus of pockets. (Even the primary pocket has its personal mini pocket!) In the event that they diverge wherever from their turn-of-the-millennium supply materials, it’s of their silhouette, a unfastened reduce that stops in need of approximating the ginormous look of their predecessors. (For what it is value, the women’s version skews a lot nearer to OG and is all the higher for it.)

Paradoxically, Abercrombie’s 2023 riff feels a bit of—dare we are saying it—sq. in comparison with among the alternate options now offered by its neighbors at the mall. Which isn’t actually a foul factor. They’re nonetheless able to syncing up with a splashy striped button-up, formidable skate footwear, or perhaps a toasted pair of ‘flops, however they’ll additionally play good with roughed-up black derbies or dainty retro kicks with out swallowing them complete. Twenty years after they took your native galleria by storm, the cargo pants that helped outlined the aesthetic of the early 2000s nonetheless obtained it happening.