Solution to the belt thing.

À La Larry King ???
 

Three options: Belted, beltless, or suspenders? I would assume that the suspenders have to be all black?

And you are missing my point. I would look the part regardless of what the local standard are or are not. And that would have to do with my feelings, not what someone that hires me always thinks. Not everything is done for an assignment. Most of it is done for my personal credibility.

Peace

There are many ways to improve one's credibility. I consider the ability to spell and type to be more important than a certain kind of pants.

This. What official's supply store even sells belted pants these days?

Western pockets, flat front, and belt loops. Seriously? Does it have bell bottoms, too?

I don't actually know what Western pockets are. You asked for a store. Just trying to help. :D

It's coming. Two of the newer schools in our area have two equal dressing rooms for officials. Now this wasn't necessarily done to accommodate female officials. Both schools are small and both boys and girls teams come at the same time. JV of one will play in one gym and varsity in another with the officials lockers in between. We have a boys officiating association and a girls association. So most often one crew will use one room and the other crew will use the other room. When there are females on one crew or the other, use of the rooms is split accordingly.

Meanwhile, your female officials should speak up for equal facilities. It is unacceptable for them to be using closets or restrooms. It's getting better for us district wide but only because I have been speaking up about it and encouraging the younger ones to do so as well. We have an association which backs us up on this.

Rita

The female officials shouldn't have to speak at all. Their association should be doing the talking for them on issues like this. If the association isn't, then that's unacceptable imo.

Most of 'em

Unless you use the grey shirts....

I've looked at websites from Honig's, Gerry Davis, Ump-Attire, Between the Lines, and Purchase Officials and Honig's is the only one that has belted pants on their site and those are women's pants.

Rut's point about quality is noted, but I can tell you in the area I worked that used belted pants, the local officials' supply store didn't carry pants at all because no one was buying them there. I tried. Had to get them from Walmart. They looked ok for a few games, but not much beyond that IMO.

Now, there's a Honig's warehouse about 10 miles out of the way on my commute.

Considering what we do is not "measurable" like a lot of things in life, we are judged on many things based on perception. The pants are only one part of that. A lot of other things in how we look matter too. Even as something as if your pants are ironed and creased matter to whether you are professional and look like you care. And if you do not think it does, sit in the stands with someone that evaluates officials and one of the first things that are talked about are what you look like physically and in your uniform.

Peace