The Bottom Line
Women's travel clothing often features form over function -- Royal Robbins's women's "Zip N Go" zip off travel pants have both, with ample function: lots of fun features, and "convertible" shorts offer more feminine fit than most zip off travel pants. Cargo pockets carry crucial stuff. Quite decent travel pants.
Pros
- Packed with six pockets
- Interesting and practical extra features
- Sturdy Supplex® nylon fabric is water-resistant but breathable
Cons
- So-so style in shorts
Description
- Zippers turn "convertible" pants into shorts.
- Velcro strip closures create adjustable leg openings (slide pants over shoes easily).
- Zip fly, button waist; dual elastic waistband sections provide stretch.
- Two curved front pockets.
- Two front patch pockets with velcro flaps.
- One back pocket with velcro flap.
- One lower leg pocket with velcro closure (turns into legs "keeper").
- Hook-and-button closures cinch down ankles.
- Available in navy, sand, khaki, bark, green, black and blacker (true). Sizes 2-18 (some colors).
- 31" inseam in pants, 6.5" inseam in shorts.
Guide Review - Royal Robbins Women's "Zip N Go" Zip Off Travel Pants
I wish, I wish, I wish I could find a pair of zip off travel pants that turn into really good-looking shorts. Perhaps it's the very nature of zip off pants that this isn't possible; the shorts never hang quite right once the legs are banished. That said, Royal Robbins's "Zip 'N Go" zip off travel pants turn into an acceptable pair of shorts... add all the pockets, a breathable fabric and some fun features, and you've found warm weather women's travel pants you'll want to wear.
Cool feature
Two buttons and an elastic strap (pictured) cinch down the ankles lest creepy crawlers want to worm in. Look neat, too.
Cool secret feature
A velcro closure cargo pocket on one lower leg doubles as a stash bag for the zipped-off legs; when turned inside out, a velcro tab fastener hooks the bag (legs inside) onto a belt loop.
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