Cargo shorts

I call them "diabetes trousers". You have all the pockets you need to carry BG testers, insulin injectors, emergency glucose packs, etc.

... or a plastic toy snake, a pair of headphones, a Mathias Quiet Clicky keyboard switch, 2 random screws, a N95 mask, assorted coins, an acorn, a notebook and pen...

My wife described cargo shorts as men's replacement for handbags. She's not wrong.

STFU. It's a replacement for a tool belt! Just let me have this ok?
I agree. Cargo pants are out though.

If it’s hot enough I need shorts, I don’t need a jacket either, but I still need pockets!

If it’s cold enough to need pants, I’m at least bringing a jacket anyway.
- As a Midwesterner where pants and a tank top or shorts & a hoodie are both viable ways to dress for the weather:
  
  Cargo all the things!

This is the exact feeling I always had with my big ass tool box on my tiny ass truck. "Hold on, y'all need a kitchen sink? I think I got one in here." I still remember how good it felt the exactly one time I had all of the tools required to do a parking lot clutch swap just on hand in that thing when a friend blew their clutch up.

That's something your great grandchildren will talk about.
So I worked security (night shift rent a cop, not like IT) for over a decade. On multiple occasions, I'd get snowed in, and unable to leave, or relief wouldn't show, and because of the way the law's written, I legally can't leave until relieved.

I got into the habit of keeping everything I need in my car. For literal years, I could have comfortably lived in my car for over a week on a moments notice. To include an inverter, hot plate, small tv, game system, literally all the trappings of an apartment. I still keep some food and a sleeping bag in my pick up at all times, because you never fucking know, man. You never know.

Eta: forgot the whole reason I was replying before submitting. Lol

On a few occasions, I have saved the freaking day for friends or coworkers. Hungry? I got the foods. Ripped your pants? Portable sewing machine. Bored and no cell signal? How about we play some video games or watch a DVD? It's an amazing feeling to be the dude who just has the shit you need
- Only on Lemmy does someone on the internet have to specify working security as rents op and not IT lol
- Is your car a semi truck? How do you fit all that?
I drive a van, and it's full of tools, food, and miscellanea. You want an ice cold lemonade? Here you go. Pruning saw? Better take these gloves too. Any gague of fishhook in particular? Protein bar? No worries. Deodorant? Keep it, I have others. Hammer drill? Why don't you just put your feet up in this camp chair, choose a book from the library, and let me do it for you. I'll just fetch my steel cap boots and work coat first.
You had the clutch too???
- I've had an axleshaft in the back that someone needed one day in the middle of nowhere. Took about 20 minutes to swap and I just took his old one in trade so I could put a new Ujoint in it and throw it back in my heep.

Don't forgot pocket sand, a swiss army knife, and a 3ton floor jack.

They laugh, but you never know when you may need a deep cycle marine battery
- Not entirely true, sometimes I go into a situation fully expecting to need a deep cycle marine battery.

I rock my skinny cargo pants to work on the regular. It's not so much about fashion as it is functionality, they still look cool tho

cargo pants

😄

but skinny

Millenials are truly lost
- I honestly don't get it. Skinny jeans never made sense, 550s are about as snug as they can be if I expect to be able to get to my keys, and I'm not a big guy.
  
  Pockets are awesome no matter what they're on as long as they have a use.
- Late Gen X actually, just trying to Buscemi it up with my fellow blue collar Gen Z/Millennial coworkers

TBH I miss 80s shorts, which knew their role in the cosmic order and didn't try to be pants.

You mean the ones that could barely claim a 2" inseam, or clam diggers? 80s fashion lived a bit longer than it should have in some parts lol.
- Not ridiculously small but they were well above the knee. Sorts we wore for Phys Ed.

Pocket tater tots are the best tater tots. Fite me.

Tina, come get some ham!
- Haha. Yes.

Any recommendation on good brands? I’m not a shorts guy but recently picked up a pair on Amazon. They seem like they are designed to look like cargo shorts, but super light weight, would rip easily and I wouldn’t want to put much in them.

I'm not a good shopper, but it's my conclusion that all clothes are like this now. If you get a year or two, you're doing good.

Even jeans and shoes.

Cargo shorts for life

Yep, was recently looking some lighter pants and it felt like the two available choices were:

small pockets
all the pockets

Like, damn, how many items do you expect me to carry around everywhere?

This guy cargoes.

what

He pulls them out of his cargo shorts because he has so much space in pockets