I usually prefer to wear Brooks Brothers and Burberry and wish one of them made this style of cargo pants but I love these so much I've often worn them with a nice sport jacket for going on three years. Now I see in the Wall Street Journal from my business travels worldwide, I've created a new international style with these great looking and highly functional pants.

If you do not have to wear the traditional style cargo pants for work, consider the functionality and not-so-cargo-pants-looking unique design features of these pants. This style of pants have the pockets on the inside of the legs which makes it not only look neater in my opinion, but also functionally important, less likely the pockets will snag and hang you up on something as you move about. You can drop a 4" full size service model 45 ACP semi-auto pistol into either of the outermost front pockets. I don't recommend every carrying that way, my point is that the pistol fits comfortably into the deep and somewhat wide pocket though of course it prints unless you use come kind of uniform semi-rid plastic fully around the outside of the pocket, inside the pocket- which then makes it look like you have a book in your pocket. I think this style of cargo pants is especially valuable to CERT Team members such as when doing light search and rescue in a dark building after a disaster. As I said, I find that even when the pockets are stuffed, the pockets are less likely to get stuck on something as I move about in tight quarters.

All but the two top front outer-most pockets have Velcro or zippers to help secure things inside the pockets. Inside the pockets the internal "magazine" pockets also work to not just hold a pair of 16 round double-stack 45 ACP mags in each of the zippered set of upper pockets, but also fine to secure smaller items and also small flashlights, pens, etc. clip onto them. Same for the side leg pockets except you can also hold a pair of full size AR or M-4 30 round mags in each pocket which is great for target shooting or S&R missions in a wilderness areas where deadly wild animals, or possibly drug dealers, roam freely.

I like the Tundra color as perfect for CERT members, Tundra goes well with the official green CERT apparel (Tundra is darker but less likely to show soil). There was a special order for a high-volume 511 dealer in "smoke" which is a dark gray but I can no longer find what is left in stock of that special order, in my size. Wish I had bought more than one of the smoke before they were sold out in my size. I do now though have several in khaki, brown and tundra.

They wash well though do look wrinkled even if promptly removed from the dryer, unless ironed.