My DS is 13, 5.6, and 120 lbs. He wears men's small in Adidas and Nike for athletic pants. For jeans he wears stuff from PacSun. I bought him dress pants and shirt from Forever21. He is too tall for boys clothing sizes.

My DS is very particular about clothing and shoes. He plays on 2 soccer teams and the only athletic brands he will wear are Adidas and Nike. These 2 brands market very hard to the soccer community.

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Start shopping in men's sizes. Target

Are the waists smaller in men's? Last time we checked for men's jeans, there weren't any small enough in the waist even though he could do the length. The X-large boys athletic pants are long enough, they are just too big in the waist.

Thanks!

The jeans at PacSun come in waist and length size. My DS wear 29x31. The athletic pants have a draw-string so he wears a men's small.

My DS has these. He has the small but looks like you can get them in XS men's.
http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/p/adidas-mens-tiro-17-soccer-pants-16adimtrpntxxxxxxasba/16adimtrpntxxxxxxasba?&color=Dark Grey/Dark Grey

Thinking outside the box, and you might have to be sneaky about this. But, what about women's? I quickly looked at Kohl's Adidas. They have the pants you show as well as a tricot version.

Side story: My Dh is very athletic. Hates, did I say hates?, to shop. He is in the gym more than ever so needs more long pants. I looked at a pair's tag to see if I could get another pair. They were a women's! Probably put in the wrong place, but obviously he tried them on at some point and bought them.

Another story: My youngest was overweight as a young teen. Shopping was very difficult until she grew tall enough, as well as losing the weight, to wear adult sizes.

My oldest was very fussy as a young children. She wore Lands' End jeans, but the boys version because they just felt more comfortable.

Well, when our boys sprouted up at 12 or 13 years old, I realized that the smaller sizes in the mens department at Target were longer in length, at least that was what I found. My boys are beanpoles, and tall, and I was able to keep the tallest boy in athletic pants if they have a drawstring.

He won't wear jeans anymore so I don't need to find those.

I thought about womens, but he changes clothes at school for PE so I think that could pose a teasing problem. I guess we could rip the tags out.

I guess we can have him try on mens and see if the waist is smaller than the boys sizes. I just thought they would be bigger.

What is his inseam?

There are certain companies its that have really slim fitting clothes. My son is the same way but finally sprouted to mens length. Zara has athletic clothes that are for the slim (just look at the models).

Luckily, slim fit is very in right now so you may just have to look in the trendier brands. I checked on Adidas boys and their pants are 27 inch inseam and are called training cut which are slimmer.

Crl, the boys look at tags inside each others clothing? My oldest was sensitive to tags, so we always snipped them off.

The Adidas are really unisex if you think about it.

The adidas pairs he has that are too short are 28 inches at the inseam. I'd guess he needs at least 30, maybe 31. And the waist on those is loose, but not so loose that they fall down.

I've never been in a boys locker room, so I have no idea. But it seems at least possible that someone could pick them up on accident or purposefully to help and notice. As you say, cutting the tag out would solve that problem.

Yes, I agree. If the tag can't be removed than it's a no.

How about Sears, Everlast? I've never heard of them but maybe they could work. It's all about finding that one thing and stocking up!

Nike's look like they would be XL but height goes from 5'3 to 5'7

Try Hanna Andersson. I have a skinny tall preschooler and they are the only pants that fit him! it seems like they go up to older boys sizes.

Hanna Anderson doesn't have athletic pants unfortunately. Love their undies and, when ds was little and let me choose his clothes, their deck pants were the best. I still sneak a few pieces in for dd every now and then, but it's not really her style sadly.

I guess we we will just have to find a sporting goods store with an assortment of brands and see if we can figure out something that runs slim.

Thanks!

Oh I see they are not long enough - maybe H&M

Have you looked at Boden? They have some - they size by age - up to 16, but they say they are relaxed slim fit. I have a skinny, leggy grandson and have great luck with the fit of their slim fit clothes for him. I tried to check their size chart to check for your son, but it won't open on my computer for some reason. These also come in shorts.

Boden Active Track Pant

Boden and Gap are good sources for slim boys. So are certain cuts at Urban Outfitters.

We have to get cleats this weekend anyway. So we are going to have him try on pants at the sporting goods store.

I don't want to spend much money on these because in a month or two he will switch to shorts and by the fall he will have outgrown anything we buy now.

If the sporting goods store is a bust, I will check those suggestions out! It looks like boden has enough length in the 15 or 16 year old sizes, not sure about the waist. I would need to measure that.

Thanks!

My son is about 5"6" about 110 and he can wear Under Armour boys XL in sweat pants. We get them on Zappos or Dick's Sporting goods.

And he's 14 now and this year he has been wearing real clothes :) We have had the best luck at American Eagle. They usually have 28 waist size in the store and can order 26 waist size in for you. So keep that in mind if your son passes through the sweat pant phase on his way to high school:)

Thanks!

I was also going to suggest women's if you can cut the tag off. Good luck!

When my son was a teen and very much in to skateboarding he wanted skin tight jeans because baggy, saggy pants were not conducive to competitive skating. Back then (early 2000's) mens skinny jeans did not exist so he would buy girls jeans. He's also a bean pole-tall and hipless.

No one ever considered he was wearing girls pants-so I doubt juniors athletic pants in black or blue would be noticed by anyone on a boy.

Under Armor track pants XL. My son lives in them. I would also try a men's small.

We've found Nike fits the slimmest. A men's small or xs should have the length you need.

edited to add:

and if he is like my athletic ds, he will only want to wear the major sports brands...no off-brands, no Target, no Land's End, and God forbid no women's! :)

I took the advice in this thread and tried all the size variations of Adidas Tiro 19 pants for a very slim 13yo boy, 95 lbs, 65” tall. Smallest waist and best fit for hi. was Men’s XS and Women’s XXS, both a little long for him but wearable (Women’s XXS was almost uncomfortably tight at the ankle so Men’s XS was best fit overall). Women’s XS and Kids L both had waists that were too large for him.

Asics women's tricot warm up pant 2xs, my son loves them. And I've been looking for years.