Even the best travel pants don’t have it easy. For one, they’re probably competing with your sweats—stiff competition in any context, let alone in the TSA line. So if your first instinct before hightailing it to the airport is to swaddle yourself in your trustiest lazy-Sunday gear, we get it. You want to be comfortable when you travel, but, and this should really go without saying, you also want to look like an adult. And that’s where pants specifically engineered for a long, arduous journey (or a short jaunt upstate) have the advantage.
The good news? Right now, there are plenty of excellent, thoughtfully-designed travel pants that check those boxes and more. To help you narrow it down, we criss-crossed the menswear landscape to find the best on the market. Bon voyage.
