Cargo pants

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Cargo pants are much like regular khaki pants, but are baggier and have several additional "cargo" pockets. Cargo pockets generally have accordion folds in the sides for increased capacity, and often have large flaps secured with snaps or velcro. Cargo pockets were originally used on battledress or sport hunting clothing for clearly functional purposes.

This type of pants is popular especially with younger people because of the useful side pockets in which personal items can be stored (e.g. cell phone, wallet, cigarettes, pocket knife, lighter, etc.) While cargo pockets were designed with functionality in mind, cargo pants are often worn for purely fashion or aesthetic reasons, with fashion often dictating that the pockets go underutilized. They became popular particularly among adolescents in the late 1990s.

Denim jeans occasionally feature cargo pockets but this is generally considered unfashionable; the cargo pockets disrupt the smooth line and form most clothiers seek to attain in jean designs.

Cargo shorts are similar to cargo pants, except they are shorts.

Cargo pants used to be worn only by men and boys but now are socially acceptable for both sexes to wear. With famous celebrity girls like Avril Lavigne or Kim Possible, cargo pants for girls have been designed keeping the baggy style and many pockets but much tighter around the waist and posterior.

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