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Zip-off Pants

Zip-off your pants, level by level.
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Tired of packing? Only want one pair of pants? You need zip-off pants!

Ok, I know there are already pants where you can zip-off the bottoms to make shorts. Why not have zip-off pants that go from long, flared bellbottoms to bathing suit bottoms?

Zip. Zip. Off go the first 6 inches, and you have clamdiggers.

Zip. Zip. Now you have capris.

Zip. Zip. Long shorts!

Zip. Zip. Short exercise shorts!

Zip. Zip. Bathing suit bottoms!

Additionally, the pants could have vertical zippers that go from toe to crotch. These could be zipped in such a way as to create skirts at every level. And walah! We've got at least 9 completely different bottoms!

The different 'levels' of cloth could have different colors, patterns, textures, etc. for a customized look.

kaya, Jun 29 2003

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       Somehow this reminds of the old craze for ripped-off jeans, which could (and did) make that same transformation. Only without the reversibility, of course.   

       Wouldn't all those zips get a little uncomfortable?
DrCurry, Jun 29 2003
  

       Hey, you forgot a thong with only a vertical zipper in the back, and zipping the pants together in a different order to make, for example, bellbottom shorts.
FarmerJohn, Jun 30 2003
  

       velcro-together little squares for patchwork pants.
po, Jun 30 2003
  

       Unsuitable, so to speak, for air travel.
snarfyguy, Jun 30 2003
  

       You can get plastic zippers, or use Velcro.
DrCurry, Jun 30 2003
  

       //toe to crotch// So they're socks too?
silverstormer, Jun 30 2003
  

       Faintly, in the night, from deep in the forest, came the distant howl of a camper getting his pubic hair stuck in a zipper.
GreenMargin, Jun 30 2003
  

       Just how far down does your pubic hair extend?!
DrCurry, Jun 30 2003
  

       You really don't want to know *that* badly, now do you?
RayfordSteele, Jun 30 2003
  

       It should also include a series of interchangeable and stackable waistbands to achieve varying amounts of rise.
AO, Jun 30 2003
  

       Baked, except for the swimsuit part.
I_Love_Lee_Cochran, Jan 12 2005
  

       I like the velcro patch pants idea. Its the ultimate in personalisable clothing. Also you can rip the pants off in Bucks Fizz style.
pooduck, Jan 12 2005
  

       Problem - the vertical zipper keeps the horizontal levels from detaching.   

       Solution - 6 seperate vertical zippers.   

       I think it's just impractical enough to work.
robinism, Jan 12 2005
  

       to much zipping for me...
lumpysausage007, Jan 16 2005
  

       Sounds like an awsome idea but i had "Zip Off Shorts" And I Lost A Part Of Them, It Had To Be A Huge Waste Of My Money, So If You COuld Think of SOme Other Way to Turn Them Into A Diffrent Style Then I Would Consider It.
Grittles, Apr 19 2007
  

       Can you also zip levels off the top so you can go from "Gran pa" to "Normal" to "hiphugger" to "rapstar"   

       Ooo! Even one more level on top with straps, so you can go to "farmer"
Galbinus_Caeli, Apr 19 2007
  
      
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