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Ultimate pants for people who wear a knee brace under their pants, and want to take the brace on and off.
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<blockquote data-quote="M77Fan" data-source="post: 2223278" data-attributes="member: 115996"><p>That is similar to what I have been doing with hunting pants and even regular jeans for years, at less cost. While I do have one pair of Cablea's whitetail Series Scentlock pants with zippers that go to just above the knee as manufactured, most of my pants I altered by sewing zippers into the outside seams. </p><p></p><p>Before I got my knee replaced I was wearing a heavy duty aircraft aluminum brace that needed frequent adjustment depending on what I was doing. It was way better not to have to dump my daypack and disrobe every time I needed to cinch a strap, or take the thing off. </p><p></p><p>Most pants have a simple outside seam, rather than the double inside seam as in jeans, and it is a simple matter to rip the stitching out to a place above the knee, then stitch in a zipper. The way that seam is constructed lends itself to adding a zipper easily. Anyone who sews can do it, and if you can't sew, a wife, sister, girlfriend, or mother can probably handle a couple straight seams to get a zipper in place. Barring that a tailor or seamstress can do it for less than $100, I am sure. Any number of weights and lengths of zippers can be found with simple Internet searches. If having a zipper touching your skin is annoying it is easy enough to add a lightweight cloth cover strip (like a storm flap on a jacket) to cover the inside of the zipper.</p><p></p><p>I only needed it on one pantleg, but no reason you could not do it with both. A side note: while you could do this using velcro it is very abrasive on skin, and less inclined to stay shut when wading through heavy brush.</p><p></p><p>If you do it yourself, you can use a pair you have, or buy about any pants and make the alteration. For me that was a great option since I have particular likes and dislikes, and demand quiet in hunting pants. It also allowed alteration of my regular jeans that I wore out on hikes, etc. As long as I didn't get a ladies light dress weight zipper, I never had any problem with zipper failure. A super light zipper would not likely stand up to the stress. I have even salvaged zippers out of old jackets, etc. as a source.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="M77Fan, post: 2223278, member: 115996"] That is similar to what I have been doing with hunting pants and even regular jeans for years, at less cost. While I do have one pair of Cablea's whitetail Series Scentlock pants with zippers that go to just above the knee as manufactured, most of my pants I altered by sewing zippers into the outside seams. Before I got my knee replaced I was wearing a heavy duty aircraft aluminum brace that needed frequent adjustment depending on what I was doing. It was way better not to have to dump my daypack and disrobe every time I needed to cinch a strap, or take the thing off. Most pants have a simple outside seam, rather than the double inside seam as in jeans, and it is a simple matter to rip the stitching out to a place above the knee, then stitch in a zipper. The way that seam is constructed lends itself to adding a zipper easily. Anyone who sews can do it, and if you can't sew, a wife, sister, girlfriend, or mother can probably handle a couple straight seams to get a zipper in place. Barring that a tailor or seamstress can do it for less than $100, I am sure. Any number of weights and lengths of zippers can be found with simple Internet searches. If having a zipper touching your skin is annoying it is easy enough to add a lightweight cloth cover strip (like a storm flap on a jacket) to cover the inside of the zipper. I only needed it on one pantleg, but no reason you could not do it with both. A side note: while you could do this using velcro it is very abrasive on skin, and less inclined to stay shut when wading through heavy brush. If you do it yourself, you can use a pair you have, or buy about any pants and make the alteration. For me that was a great option since I have particular likes and dislikes, and demand quiet in hunting pants. It also allowed alteration of my regular jeans that I wore out on hikes, etc. As long as I didn't get a ladies light dress weight zipper, I never had any problem with zipper failure. A super light zipper would not likely stand up to the stress. I have even salvaged zippers out of old jackets, etc. as a source. [/QUOTE]
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