Pants: Sansabelt vs. Smitty

[Rich]

Originally Posted by constable

Pleats are goofy looking. all of my dress pants are flat front.

Flat front pants scream out (to me) the same way that a belt does. Other regions and viewpoints may vary.

[mbyron]

Like all matters of style, this wheel continues to turn. Right now, to advance and to look proper you wear pleats and no belt. If you stay in it more than 20 years, you'll see it change. :shrug:

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by mbyron

If you stay in it more than 20 years, you'll see it change.

Yeah? Right? In twenty years I'll be so old that I'll be wearing my belt up around my nipples.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Yeah? Right? In twenty years I'll be so old that I'll be wearing my belt up around my nipples.

That will work out, if your nipples are down around your knees.

This does mean one thing, though -- you should stay with the latest trends for wherever you are. If you're the only one wearing a belt or flat front pants or using a pea whistle, why be that guy?

[Bad Zebra]

Bought my first pair of Smitty's earlier this season. Honestly, I don't see a big difference with Sansabelt in terms of quality or fit, so I'll probably stick with Smitty's at the lower price. The Smitty's seem to run a little smaller in the waist so I didn't have to have them taken in this pair (saved $$$ there too).

I'll look at them at the end of the season to see if they held up as well after the repeated laundering.

[tjones1]

Are there still officials who use a pea whistle?

[Rich]

Originally Posted by tjones1

Are there still officials who use a pea whistle?

There's one guy I've worked with in the past who (I think) uses a pea whistle and wears a belt mainly to annoy other officials.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

There's one guy I've worked with in the past who (I think) uses a pea whistle and wears a belt mainly to annoy other officials.

Okay, this makes me laugh.

[ref2coach]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

There's one guy I've worked with in the past who (I think) uses a pea whistle and wears a belt mainly to annoy other officials.

We have one of those in our association. Very good official, funny with a quick dry wit. Loves if someone asks him about the whistle or the belt, they become the butt of his wit the rest of the evening.

[constable]

Originally Posted by tjones1

Are there still officials who use a pea whistle?

It is in my boards constitution that one must use a fox 40. They don't care if it is a mini, classic, or sonik but it's gotta be a fox.

[Rich]

I talk with lower level officials and I've frequently had guys ask where we buy our pants. I give them the names of official supply houses and brands and then they ask how much the pants cost. When I tell them, they say something like "Walmart is good enough for me." I can tell. Maybe the average fan can't, but when people's pants have white pockets that show when they run up and down the court, an official certainly can. Part of this game is credibility and yes, I want to be seen as credible by other officials and my partners.

I would never dream of buying an officiating shirt "off the rack" at Dick's Sporting Goods or another one of those places that sells the 30-grit polyester shirt that would've been stylish in 1977. Times have changed. We do get paid for this gig and expecting us to spend a couple hundred dollars a season to buy decent pants, shirts, and shoes isn't too much to ask, really.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

Using a pea whistle.

Hey. Let's not encourage Mark Padgett. Let's have no posts about the first rule of officiating.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Yeah? Right? In twenty years I'll be so old that I'll be wearing my belt up around my nipples.

Either that, or you'll have Dunlap syndrome. That's where your stomach dun lap over your pants. I suffer from that now.

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Either that, or you'll have Dunlap syndrome. That's where your stomach dun lap over your pants. I suffer from that now.

I had somebody tell me once that he didn't have "dunlap disease", cuz he wasn't done lapping over his belt.

[mj]

Originally Posted by mbyron

Like all matters of style, this wheel continues to turn. Right now, to advance and to look proper you wear pleats and no belt. If you stay in it more than 20 years, you'll see it change. :shrug:

So I shouldn't get rid of my Byron collared shirts?