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Cargo pants really look bad with anything in them though, except flattish items like paper money. These trousers look like an improvement.

I think the next step is to reinvent the bum bag in a slightly more sartorially-elegant form.

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How "bad" they look is part of the aesthetic of cargo pants. Wearing them is in part a deliberate declaration that you do not care about the aesthetic considerations.

Or that you simply have different aesthetic criteria. When did fashion start being axiomatic?

Excuse me. You're right, I've been over-broad.

Purposely adopting cargo pants requires a rejection of the primacy of common, mainstream aesthetic culture in clothing decision-making for any of a variety of reasons. Examples include, but are in no way limited to, functional reasons and personal aesthetics.

Thank you for this opportunity to clarify my thoughts.

Thanks, my cargo pants really needed that self-esteem boost.

Better, but still not quite right. You don't have to reject the primacy if you never acquired it or considered it in the first place.

Fashion is a feature of socialization, and not everyone was socialized the same way.

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