Thousand Miles All Day Pants Review
A leisure pant made for travel and specializing in warm weather comfort. How does this player work for the international market?
Thousand Miles All Day Pants Review Introduction
Thousand Miles is a brand you might not have heard of if you’re in the United States, but hey I like to cover as many companies as I can. This review will be for our international crowd for now, as they don’t actually sell in the US while they work through some business/brand name legal processes (Dec 2022). But - it’s a big world out there and a lot of people aren’t in the US so let’s check them out!
They specialize in making lightweight, travel, and leisure friendly clothes all made from a few different tech fabrics. The All Day Pants that we’ll be looking at today are made with what they call Omniflex. Lightweight. Travel friendly features. Solid looks. Those are the goals.
This is my Thousand Miles OMNIFLEX All Day Pants review.
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Thousand Miles All Day Pants Overview
As I said, Thousand Miles is pretty “new to me” in terms of a brand. But, they’ve got a goal that I can get behind: They want to help make traveling a little easier, and a little more comfortable for their customers.
The All Day Pants are part of that mission. These are squarely in the “leisure” category rather than being chino or in-office pants replacements.
While their website doesn’t have too much in-depth information on the fabric, it’s billed as lightweight, quick drying, and anti-odor (though no mention as to whether this is a treated fabric or it’s just naturally odor resistant due to the fabric qualities). The fabric itself seems to be making use of new weaving techniques, like a few other brands out there, and that’s lending to its lightweight and breathability. They call it OMNIFLEX fabric.
Here are the main specs from their website:
90% Polyester
10% Spandex
Comes in black, deep sea (the blue I have), gray, silver.
I don’t have USD pricing for these, but on their site they are listed at RM149.00 (Malaysian).
All Day Pants Features
Fabric Close Up. You Can See The Tight Weave.
These pants are both simple and straightforward, but also holding a few tricks up their sleeves.
Besides the general features of the fabric, which you’d expect in this category, they do put some travel friendly bits in here.
5 functional pockets, and 3 of these have zippers. A must for travel pants. One zipper is tucked away behind a standard chino style pocket, one is a zippered back pocket, and one is a zippered pocket on the right leg.
This last pocket actually has a specialty - this pulls double duty as being a self-packing pocket, too. So, when you’re not using the pants you can pack them into their own pocket for traveling. This puts them into a nice, compact little package that helps with the Tetris game in your pack (especially if you use packing cubes).
At the cuffs, you’ll find 2 more zippers. This changes the fit from tapered and tighter around your ankles, to a more open and loose fit. Think jogger look vs pants look. At least, that’s the idea behind this.
Further, these also have a real zipper and metal button closure, and internal drawstrings. So while they are leisure pants, they aren’t just pull-on pants. They are a bit on the nicer end than that.
The Good
Let’s just get the obvious one out of the way - packing into themselves is a smart feature. I packed these on a recent trip to London to test this very thing, and it works as advertised. They even have a video online in case you want to see exactly how they do it. But, it packed down pretty small (about the size of a travel blanket or some packable packs) and it’s easy to toss into your bag. For me, this did not cause any crazy wrinkles either, though I wouldn’t store the pants this way long term. You’re just tempting fate with the Wrinkle Gods that way. But for packing in transit? Worked well!
The material is pretty much as promised. It’s very lightweight, in fact barely feels like there’s much weight at all, and is quite comfortable on your skin. I was wearing them around NYC and testing them out in October, so I can’t speak to the super warm weather wearing capabilities - but that’s actually what this fabric was made for. Thousand Miles is based in a warm part of the world, and are making clothes to match. So for your South East Asia or summer travel, these will be a good option. They are lighter and air-ier than some other joggers I have tried (including Cuts - which I currently own). It does dry quickly as well in case you get caught in a monsoon or need to wash at your hotel room. Should be no trouble drying overnight, if not even a few hours. YMMV based on humidity. Another benefit of the lightweight fabric in SE Asia would be that these are easy enough to carry around in your day bag, and you can toss them on when you have to go into temples and can’t wear shorts!
The zippered pockets also are good. As I always note, travel focused pants have to AT LEAST have one. Here you get 3. Nice job, TM.
I REALLY like this color blue. They call it “Deep Sea” and it’s kind of a Navy with a blue green effect. You know, something you’d expect in the sea, Duh. It looks really good.
I also like the zipper and metal button closure vs full elastic waistband. I just think it makes them look a little smarter, even though they are of course athleisure.
The Bad
I’m not a regular in athleisure pants, but that said I want to make sure I do look at both the good and the bad, as always. These points might not be game changers for you, but I want to be honest and complete.
The zippers on the leg cuffs didn’t really do it for me. I just kept them closed. In theory the idea is to make them look more like regular pants, but in practice they just look like joggers with a zipper open. I think, if you were wearing them while climbing, or maybe scrambling on some rocks, it might be nice for some additional movement. But generally speaking, I didn’t really see a use case for me and felt they just looked better zipped up.
This next one is definitely more of a “me” problem (Like always, having your own site means you get to complain, haha) or a shorter-person problem - but on the smallest versions of the pants, they were a TAD long for what I like. Again, won’t be an issue for all. But I’m 5’6” and found them just a little too long. Nothing egregious here. We’re not talking JNCO, lol.
The Improvement Requests for the All Day Pants
Short and sweet - I would recommend removing the zipper on the ankles and just running with the slim/tapered style cuff.
Lastly, on the smallest sizes, I’d like to see them shorten the inseam just a bit more. I think that would really tighten up the look (stylistically speaking, not physically making them tighter) and prevent less bagginess at the ankles which I think is a better look in these kinds of pants to keep them from looking TOO casual/college kid.
Final Thoughts On My Thousand Miles All Day Pants Review
That takes care of our first review for Thousand Miles products (Keep following, as I have a few more products of theirs to review as well such as their t-shirt, shorts, and packable backpack).
It’s definitely a new brand for me, and we’ll have to be honest they are playing in a space that has exploded in the last few years. Again, as of Dec 2022 they are not available for purchase in the States, but definitely are world wide and I’d expect them to get into the US as soon as they can.
Overall, I like these pants. They are comfortable, lightweight, and deliver on their travel friendly qualities which were promised - especially for warmer weather. I definitely liked the self-packing aspect, and the blue color is a really, really great color in these. My wife said she liked the look on me, and as I always say, she’s a designer so I trust her opinion fully! I will say, and I think you can see this in the pictures, is that “in practice” - meaning, out and about - these do look better than the staged indoor fit pic. Hard to say why, but where they looked a little baggy on me inside, when I was walking around I think they looked better. Might be I had them higher on my hips once I left. As noted earlier, a shorter inseam will fix most of this.
If you like to wear athleisure while en route, or while walking around a city, and also like the option of being able to exercise after/before breakfast but still look normal when you head to the sites or a coffee shop, these are a good option and worth a look. Something else that’s a little under-rated here - is that these ARE in fact available outside the US. I see a lot of comments online from the International crowd and it’s a pain in the butt for them to get a lot of the products focused on the American market. They’ve got long shipping waits and customs to worry about. This provides a good option to get around that US focus. We all like options, right?
The OMNIFLEX All Day Pants from Thousand Miles are definitely worth a look if you’re in the market for some very lightweight, travel-friendly leisure pants that allow you to be very comfortable, but not sloppy. I was happy with the overall look and quality here. It’s a nice fabric, especially for hot places.
As always with the indie brands, I’d suggest buying directly through their website for best service.
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