Gun pants?

There is a company that sells pants for concealment, check their website out, not posting a link but type this in.

ccwbreakaways.com

Wow I like those break away pockets. A little pricey though.

Duluth Trading flex cargo pants and shorts. The cargo pockets easily carry my P229 with red dot in a sticky holster, and the pockets are positioned such that they provide fast access to it. And the velcro keeps the flap where it's suppose to be. Been carrying that way for years now, and I carry all day, everyday.

Those "Breakaways" are a sorta outside the pants AIWB Smart Carry.

The Smart Carry's will let you carry under pretty much any pants, short, whatever if the pants wont handle the gun being there. I use mine for those places I have to wear things I normally dont. Its also a great holster for a BUG.

They will also let you carry a gun most pockets wont, guns in the Glock 19 range or even larger tend to work best with them, in the looser, lighter material dress type pants.

The big advantage here with this holster is, you dont have to buy special clothing. It works with pretty much anything.

I bought a pair of those "breakaways". Wore it once, never again. The gun is positioned too far in front, so that when you walk the gun slams into the front of your body. Very uncomfortable. Maybe OK if someone was only attending a cocktail party, with little walking around involved. But I don't go to those.

I found some cargo pants that look like nice "business casual" slacks.

Handguns and holsters that fit the cargo pocket properly are well concealed.

If the handgun is fairly light, the pocket won't sway or sag.

My wife and daughter tell me they can't tell that I have an LCR in my cargo pocket, even though they knows it's there.

It's easy and quick to draw, whether you're sitting or standing.

In the summer I do the same with cargo shorts.

If jeans have decent-sized pockets, the back pocket is a good place to carry a j-frame 38 snub with small grips. You have to know that you're not going to sit down, though. I carry that way sometimes when I'm walking the dog.

The bib pocket of overalls is great for CC. I have to wear overalls a lot and carry that way often.

I don't carry in the front pockets of pants. It's slow to draw even if you're standing, and extremely slow and difficult if you're sitting.

I pocket carry a LCP (soon a LCP Max) pretty much everyday. I use a Mitch Rosen Express line pocket holster. Wrangler Cargo Pants and shorts work well and are cheap to boot. I can carry it fine in a set of Carpenter type jeans. Standard jeans I can carry it but its not going to be an easy draw if I had to get it out.

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I never wore anything special. No high dollar tactical pants. Plain jain straight leg "flex" jeans or flex chinos pants are what I wear. My waist is a 32" so I buy 34". I do not wear baggy pants either. I carry a APX Compact (double stack) and more recently, a S&W 686+. I've carried a plothera of other firearms over the years, and never had a problem with a hoster printing. Never heard anyone meantion this being an issue before. Most complain about their firearm printing above the belt line and not below.

JEBruns said:

Duluth Trading flex cargo pants and shorts. The cargo pockets easily carry my P229 with red dot in a sticky holster, and the pockets are positioned such that they provide fast access to it. And the velcro keeps the flap where it's suppose to be. Been carrying that way for years now, and I carry all day, everyday.

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+1 on Duluth, They also have a "hidden pocket behind the left front pocket that fits small auto or knife, light, etc.

I wear camo bdu's
Today it was rothcos and I had my glock 26 in my pocket at a repair shop and krogers. No problem

Duluth is good.
Mind the Wrangler Wrancher Dress is pretty good, too--wears and fits like jeans, look more like business attire.
You want to have an idea about what adjustments to fit/size work best with your carry.

I have a huge preference fro brick-and-mortar "buys" just from the way commercial clothing is made.
Which involves laying entire rolls of cloth out, and 12-15" deep on a platform, then a pattern for a given size is laid out on top, and all the individual pieces are cut out in batches, however many thicknesses there are in the pile. The accuracy of the cuts is down to the cutter, and how vertical the cutter is held, so they can be plus or minus, as they are just sewn seam to seam as they are cut. So, your "30" might be 29, or it might be 31, and the next one in the stack might be 30.5 or the like.

So, that's why I prefer to go to the store and try things on. I will also take one of the extra IWB I have, to test the fit, too.

Another vote for Duluth, specifically their fire hose pants. You can pretty much conceal a govt. 1911 in the front pocket.

If you need "dress" type pants, especially if you need to have your shirt tucked in, I highly recommend the Smart Carry holsters. They arent your typical belt holster, but once you try and figure them out, they work very well, and are very comfortable, even for 16 hour, day-long, active use.

You can normally wear your normal dress slacks, and probably get by with what you would normally carry on your belt. Smaller is usually a little easier, and more comfortable, but as I said, Glock 19 sized guns are very doable.

I used one in the summers for the past decade or so, in a very active environment, and most of that, in NPE's the whole time, carrying my Glock 26 with a 17 mag for its reload, wearing Carhartt or Dickies carpenter pants and a tucked-in tee shirt and it worked great. An office or shop environment, with looser pants, would be even easier.

www.smartcarry.com

I have found my dockers do a solid job of breaking up the lines of my 442 when I’m carrying it in the soft holster. Right front pants pocket. Works like a champ.

Once upon a time, Wrangler Riata slacks were really good, for pocket carry. Somewhere along the way, the pockets got smaller, so that they were too shallow for my favored SP101 snubby revolvers. I have not looked at Riata slacks, in several years, and am not sure whether they still exist, but it might be worth looking at whatever is Wrangler’s current equivalent to Dockers.

Elkins45 said:

That’s even worse than jeans. I can’t wear camouflage pants in an office.

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Oh yeah you said nothing about white collar work in op

I've found from perso - a good friend - that the adjustable waist band slacks are great for office/dress wear. The problem is that if you wear, say, a 32 and then stick a small double stack 9 with good holster in, the pants need to be 2" bigger. If you remove the gun - not allowed, office drawer or home safe - then you may suffer from a droopy waist band and the consequential constant pulling up. At that point suspenders start looking like a solution. With the expandable waist, it takes up some slack, you might take up a notch, done.

Or worse, the old physique tapers as it descends from waistline to knees, and there is nothing to stop your clothing in it's long and inexorable attraction to ground zero. Adding another 40-60 oz is no help at all. At least with a good belt and slacks that cooperate, you get the best of both. There are now a lot of dress stretch belts, albeit too narrow and which are also part of the growing mens market. Hint.

It also goes to the holster - thin materials follow contours, and we have gotten into a situation where holsters are considered quality if they are handboned sufficiently to read the markings on the slide. Take a look - all those creases and folds may have originally been for retention in the day, but now are contrary to our intent to conceal. We are requiring an OWB look at me styling feature with a concealed hide me please holster. If you can see the slide markings thru the material, maybe it's the wrong holster?

Just sayin ; )

There is also the cut of the pants, and a stretch material while comfortable in jeans defeats concealment to a degree when its cut to a close fit. Or, at least, thats what she said. For marketing reasons men prefer the illusion of being fit as a 32 year old international jet setting spy, (stirred not shaken) when the reality is some of us could use a pair of pants that fit a little looser. Not that anyone needs to wear them like Pappy O'Daniel - but that was a fashion statement in the day. LIke, 1938. Aren't we pushing it with hip hugger pants and skinny legs in over 50 wear? Duluth did offer "contour cut" jeans at one time, I'm thinking all mine look like that after 6 months. It seems mens wear is dominated by youth fashion, and we blindly follow along.

When Concealed Carry in no flash states became a thing tuckable IWB got started, and folks were also tossing their suitcoats on the back of the chair in offices because HVAC got better, too. For those who can wear IWB, go for it. For those of us who have well insulated abs, it's a different game.

I am overweight. I have found Dickies pants to be on the “trim” side of sizing, but I really like Wrangler “Authentics” mens classic pants. I like the cargo pants because there is also a tech pocket on each side for carrying a cell phone or phones. They also make a pair of pants called “Tech” pants that do no not have the cargo pockets but do have a tech pocket for a phone on the outside of the right thigh.
These pants are thick cotton and wear like loose chinos.