These are the Outlier 4 Season OG Pants. I picked up a pair about a month ago and I wanted to write a little about them, because I think they are brilliant. The basic idea is a pair of cycling trousers that are lightweight and water resistant, but that look sharp enough to be worn to work and out and about at bars and restaurants. They go a little further than this and have been developed in such a way that you don’t sweat much in them and they are also really flexible, unlike the usual skinny jeans. At $180 plus postage from the states, the price point seems fairly high, but then again the equivalent boiler-suit aesthetic waterproofs available in the UK aren’t much cheaper. These trousers look better than passable - they are pretty slick, though I wouldn’t opt to wear them on a day I knew I wasn’t riding. The only disappointment is that they do feel a little tackier than the photography on the website suggests. The thing that has really clenched it for Outlier in my book is how effective they are. I was suspending judgement until a day with at least moderate downpour, and last week this happened. After a couple of hours in my studio I noticed rain water had been rolling off under my desk and I’d not even noticed. A quick brush off and the rain and dirt was gone, just like in a Billy Mays infomercial.

These are the Outlier 4 Season OG Pants. I picked up a pair about a month ago and I wanted to write a little about them, because I think they are brilliant. The basic idea is a pair of cycling trousers that are lightweight and water resistant, but that look sharp enough to be worn to work and out and about at bars and restaurants. They go a little further than this and have been developed in such a way that you don’t sweat much in them and they are also really flexible, unlike the usual skinny jeans.

At $180 plus postage from the states, the price point seems fairly high, but then again the equivalent boiler-suit aesthetic waterproofs available in the UK aren’t much cheaper. These trousers look better than passable - they are pretty slick, though I wouldn’t opt to wear them on a day I knew I wasn’t riding. The only disappointment is that they do feel a little tackier than the photography on the website suggests.

The thing that has really clenched it for Outlier in my book is how effective they are. I was suspending judgement until a day with at least moderate downpour, and last week this happened. After a couple of hours in my studio I noticed rain water had been rolling off under my desk and I’d not even noticed. A quick brush off and the rain and dirt was gone, just like in a Billy Mays infomercial.

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