Customer Reviews L.L.Bean Multisport Pants

Bought for a family adventure vacation. These pants are practical and fit well BUT... easily snag and are repairable hence ruined in one single wear. Very expensive disposable pants :(

I started by ordering one pair of the sports pants. I wore them a couple of days and liked them so much (great fit, comfortable, good looking) that I order three more pair to wear on our upcoming 2-week driving tour of Iceland. Meanwhile, I continued wearing the original pair when appropriate. By the time they needed to be laundered, I noticed a problem developing. Namely, the material (particularly on the top of the thigh area) had begun to pill. I laundered them (warm gentle wash, low heat gentle dry), and they came out looking great except for the pilling. By now, I have worn them several more days and laundered them again, and the pilling continues to worsen. I have also worn the three additional pairs several days each (while in Iceland), and I have noticed when I finished laundering them that at least one of them has started to pill. So -- great fitting and great appearing, very comfortable to wear. But the pilling that has developed is starting to detract from their appearance.

Weight of these pants was good. They are for spring, summer, and autumn wear, and are too light for colder weather. The camp pants were tighter than advertised at the waist and through the buttocks. Fit was great in the thighs and below. Other than the elastic, it does not seem that the fabric will, with continued wear, relax and conform to my shape. Perhaps, this is an opportunity to lose another five pounds.

These are baggy and very lightweight pants that run large. Well made but overpriced for what they are. I returned them.

I have the multisport shorts and really like them. Got all 4 current colors. I decided to try these for the 5 times it gets cold down here in Florida. These bad boys just want to slide down my waist creating hip hopper envy. I basically dug down to the depth of my soul to muster up the strength to tie them as tight as I could, nearly severing my spine. The tie laces certainly work. It worked but it was a ridiculous measure taken to wear the pants. Granted, I gotta belly that wants to push bottoms to the floor and I have no butt, yet the shorts work for me. "Bottom" line is I think the elastic waist band isn't quite elastic enough and the added weight of the pants material compared to the shorts and the material texture/composition caused the sliding. You might conclude I got the wrong size, but this was my second pair in a different size. I returned both. The bottom of the pant legs can be cinched tightly. It is a clever, albeit, annoying to use design, no doubt adding to the cost of the pants. To tighten you pull an elastic loop cord inside the bottom pant leg. It leaves a lengthened hangman's noose dangerous to snakes. To loosen, there is a mechanism the cord runs through sewn inside the fabric that has a button which faces the outside pant leg. You have to feel for the button, push it then with your other hand pull the bottom cuff to draw the bottom pant leg back to full open position. The pulling and loosening process is somewhat tedious and I found I need both hands to accomplish each task. I still have a pair of 80's styled sweat pants. The ones we used to wear shorts over. Think Josh Brolin in The Goonies. Anyhow, they are ugly. These multisport pants are much prettier. So for those of you with a more fit body style, these will probably work. But if you are like me, with a keg instead of a six pack, give them a try and leave the buyers remorse behind if they don't work. After all, they are just pants.

I already have these pants and the pant leg length is different from the ones I just bought. New ones are too long did I ordered the wrong size?

The fabric is very nice. But the plastic draw strings at the bottom of each leg result in a sloppy look and are an expensive way to avoid producing a betting fitting pant.

Because of the material in these pants I thought they would be pretty wrinkle free after washing and drying. Not so! They came out looking terrible. I'm sending them back for a refund and am cancelling my order for the pair that was back ordered.

I've had these pants several weeks. I wear them to work in. An office. The back pocket snap has already fallen off and the threads outlining the back pocket are coming undone I like the look and feel, the quality doesn't seem very good for 70 dollars.

Very stiff material. Hard finish. Runs a bit small and tight.

My son is 6'5" and usually does fine with a 34" inseam. These were way too short (fit more like a 30" inseam). Also they seem a little wide. I hate these didn't work out! They are a nice, lightweight dry-fit pant.

I purchased four pairs of these Multisport Pants and six pairs of the shorts in size large. After wearing the pants a few times I noticed they seemed more snug in the waist. I measured my waist to see if there was weight gain and I was exactly 37". These are supposed to fit 36"-38". I compared the waist width un-stretched to the shorts and found that the pants are only 16" wide, while the shorts measure 17". I contacted L.L Bean and the customer service representative said they probably shrunk from washing, and that they would replace them with Xtra Large. I had that size a year ago, but because of cancer, I lost so much weight that I could only keep them up with suspenders, so I donated them and repurchased these in size Large. Accordingly, be advised that these elastic stretch waists apparently shrink, which is ridiculous because all my bathing suits with stretch waists have never shrunk after being worn in water and machine washed. There's clearly a quality control problem from the manufacturer because the pants should not be 1" smaller after washing than the shorts, which have not yet been worn and washed.

These are great pants. I bought a pair last summer and they fit perfectly- then and now. I bought another pair a couple of weeks ago and they're too tight. I read the labels closely. Item number is the same. But last summer's purchase was manufactured in Indonesia, and the recent purchase was made in Vietnam. I don't know if a change in manufacturer is the cause, but there is a big difference. So beware. These run smaller than they did last year.

material is too thin to be practical for use advertised. I Would not buy again

This is my second pair of the pants. Got a Medium 30" and they are huge compared to my first pair of these multisports. they fit more like a large, very large. I laid the new pair out and got my first pair and compared. the waist is at least 2" wider than my first pair and extreme;y baggy. I was think of trying to wash in hot water to see if they will shrink, but thought why go through this for a brand new pair of pants to "try: to get them to fit. Extremely disappointed.

Look, I love the idea of the pant. But when I find a foot long thread every time I take them off and put them back on I find it hard to believe in any sense of quality.

I was thinking this item would be similar to your discontinued venture soft stretch pants. They are nothing like them.

Too baggy. Not LL Bean quality. Way too expensive for what you get.

I don't like to post negative reviews but I do it only to give feedback to LLBean. I wanted a light summer pair of pants to wear them every day. BUT ... with out the string tight my pants would not stay around the waist. It needs loops and belt to fix that. For men two rear pockets are needed and a zipper please. The worst part are the low leg cords. I have never used them until about a month ago. Once I made it tighter (to avoid ticks) now I can't loosen them. I was at the main store in Freeport and ask a sales person how does one loosen them and she said "press the button inside the hem" in my case my pants have no "pushable" button inside the hem. Why all this complication??? LLBean you can do better than that. Sorry I don't care about returning it but I am very disappointed about this purchase. What happened to the old LLBean

hi LLBean - i have noticed a decline in the quality of your products. Rag wool (stretchable) socks, a fleece vest and these lightweight pants - are all poorly made. Socks got a hole in them a month or so after wearing. fleece has begun to bunch up and shed and the pants are just poor in quality and really not worth the price i paid for them. Whats going on? I know u are not manufacturing most products in the U.S. which is understandable to some extent as the economies of scale don't support American jobs and manufacturing bases. but at least choose good partners in Asia, Latam. Monitor them and stop cutting costs! brgds, Siddhartha in Evanston, ILL

I purchased these pants for my husband. He wears a size medium and has a 30 inch inseam. Therefore, I purchased a Medium 30. The pants are about 1.5 to 2 inches too long. Not true to size. The length of the pants are not as described. Do not recommend unless customer goes to store to try on.

I bought three pairs as well as the shorts for my son. They look nice and the fit is great, however after only few months they started showing signs of tear and one of the pants is already ripped. The thread gets easily caught if you sit on even slightly rough ground. They are not good for heavy use and their price does not reflect their quality.

These pants ran small for me. I typically wear a 38" waist pants. I ordered XL in these pants because I wanted a loose fit. The pants barely fit my waist and the hips are tight. The size chart lists XL as 40-42. I'm not so sure a person with a 42" waist could wear an XL in the pants I received. The inseam was good. The fabric is light.

Rise WAY too low/short. Because I had them shortened before realizing I could not wear them, I had to give them away to charity. Somebody who can handle a low rise should be pretty happy with such an otherwise good quality product.

These are very comfortable, but within weeks of buying them I noticed there was already a flaw (pulled thread) in the fabric. It isn't like they were used in any difficult setting -- mostly just around the house and neighborhood. I like the fit and comfort, but thinking of returning them due to the poor quality of the material - definitely NOT what I'd expect from Bean.