Work pants that don't suck.
 

Dickies are worthless because whenever I lay on my back everything falls out of the pockets.


Does anybody make work pants that are inexpensive and have pockets that don't suck?

Look at Carharrt. The double front lined bibs are tough as they come...well worth the money.

I spend a lot of time kneeling in bilge slime on the bottom of boats; my pants tend to get wet and smelly. I'd prefer pants thin enough to dry quickly and cheap enough to throw away when they get coated in oily sea-spooge.

Dickies would be perfect if it wasn't for the piss-poor pocket design that dumps everything (cell phone, pocket knife, dollar coins) on the floor (into the bilge, underneath the engines, into the bilge pumps) whenever I lay on my back. I want, like, Dickies with Levi's pockets.

Amen brother. Luv the Carhart bibs. Every fall when the unlined ones go on sale I stock up for the next year.

I used to get some good jeans called Diamond Cut Jeans but all the local stores quit sellin em last year. They were cheap, comfortable and lasted as long as Levi's if you can find em on the net someplace.

what about wranglers...not the walmart kind, the real wranglers from like TSC

I get what you're saying on the thin pants.....the carhartts are a bit thick to dry like that. Maybe try some light weight cargo pants or something.

The Captain just gave me the idea here, sounds like what your lookin for is the lightweight/Summer Military cargo pants. They are designed to do everything you just mentioned and more and can be had cheap through ebay and all those places.

Wally World has some good Wrangler work pants. Plenty of variety with cargo pockets, cell phone pockets, etc.

if you can't find anything to fit the bill try sewing some velcro into the pocket tops and just hook them together and keep your stuff inside.