Unscientific research...

[bunn]

If you wanted to buy some cheapo leg-coverings in an informal sort of style online, that were NOT chinos or jeans - what would you google for?

- Pants (as in, cargo pants, jogging pants, combat pants)

- Combats

- Trousers

- Other

Any assistance from anyone not habitually naked from the waist down would be *greatly* appreciated...

Comments

[chainmailmaiden]

Depends what sort of price you think is cheap. Hawkshead always used to be good for cheap trousers, but now they seem to be expensive (£25) unless you buy 2 pairs in which case it's 2 for £30. They don't seem to have such a big range on-line now either.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

If it's a UK seller, with a UK website, which will be selling to UK people, I think they should use "trousers." I think most British people are aware that those strange American people call them "pants", but they wouldn't type "pants" into a search engine, not if they were trying to buy such things in the UK.

[tovaglia.livejournal.com]

Definitely trousers for UK market (thought I'd better say in case anyone thought I was habitually naked from the waist down).

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Belatedly - anything but pants, assuming I was clicking the 'pages from the Uk' option: I'd be worried about getting porn (though, I suppose porn generally involves no-pants. Maybe dodgy web-cam things of aging lotharios.) I'd use combats if that was specifically what I was looking for, otherwise maybe "casual trousers".