My grandson is a wonderful little boy, but has two main problems when it comes to pants: he's bean-pole skinny, so it's a challenge to find pants that fit him well at the waist (and don't look like floods!)and generally look good.  Second, he's on the go 24/7 and hard - hard - hard on pants - especially the knees.

My daughter tried various pants that would qualify for school uniform pants and found that, even when she found ones that fit my grandson's waist, he was through the knees - sometimes in days!

Enter Dickies school uniform pants!  The pants have an adjustable waist that adjusts adequately to fit my grandson's narrow waist.  We were concerned the front pleats would make him look like he stuck a balloon in his pants, but the pants have a naturally slimmer fit and look great.

And the reinforced knees have withstood the test of this very active little boy.  My daughter used Dickies pants on him the second half of last school year and again this school year (though not the same pants - my grandson has grown!) and never once have his knees poked out through tattered pants - Dickies have really held up great.

I recommend Dickies pleated front school uniform pants whole-heartedly.  They may not be the cheapest initially, but they outlast any other brand we've tried and in the long run 1 pair of these pants is cheaper than multiple pairs of something else.