Mountain Hardwear Ramesa Short
July 4, 2010
The coming of summer weather means breaking out the summer wardrobe! You know, finding those shorts and capris you’d forgotten about since it has been so long since the temperature made its way above fifty. And speaking of forgotten about, I found these shorts peeking resentfully from last year’s summer pile. How had I overlooked these, I (and surely Mountain Hardwear) wondered? For they are really great shorts. It could perhaps possibly be that I last tried to wear them on a weekend in which I’d traveled from sea level to ten thousand feet in one day and pretty much everything I tried to wear made me feel like a puffy, sloshy water ballon, and perhaps on that particular day they felt or looked a tad bit too tight and I subconsciously squirreled them away so as not to remind myself that they, my regular size, were too small. And then accidentally on purpose forgot about them. Denial, so powerful. Ego, so easily bruised.
Luckily Denial decided to take a day off and Ego went to play with someone else’s wardrobe decisions, and I gave the shorts another try. And lo and behold, I had been missing out on a whole year of wearing great shorts, all because Ego and Denial had come to visit for a day. Houseguests, I tell you. Anyway, I do quite like these shorts. They are low rise, slim/trim fit style, with kind of interesting half-moon pockets. The waist, booty, and hips all fit my athlete’s build nicely, and the thighs are even cut well enough to allow room for my biker/skier quads while still keeping a slim profile. The 9″ length is quite nice; a little lower than mid thigh; just enough to cover what I want to cover while avoiding that bermuda look. At first I was wary of the slender fit because I tend to choose baggier pants, but I have grown to love the look of the Ramesa short. The waist and rise is my favorite part; low enough for comfort but not so low as to display anything ending in “crack” or “line” and beginning in “butt” or “bikini.” Mountain Hardwear calls this design a “conical” waist, so, er, okay then. I like a “conical” waist evidently. The back waistband is even a special, low profile design to allow for wearing a pack without getting chafed. They think of everything, those people. As I mentioned, these are pretty true to size, so order your regular size (size up if you are in between) and you’ll be good to go.
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