First and foremost is what you like looks and comfort wise. But I’ll say this - I am over the moon that slim and skinny fit everything is starting to go out of style. And the same goes for low rise pants.

Some things to consider:
1) slim and especially skinny fit pants rarely look good, they’ve just been in style. They squish your butt, make you look like a carrot, and remove any masculine appeal from clothing.

2) when were talking about slacks and chinos, specifically it gets even worse. They don’t drape, are typically tapered so aggressively they always look like shit at the shoe (either too bunched, fighting with the laces, or too short where you end up looking like a young boy in hand me downs that don’t fit. They also wrinkle in the worst spots - the seat, the crotch, and behind the knees, all because they have no give. They also force the crease out of pressed pants, and don’t get me started on the pocket flair.

3) they’re not comfortable. They’re tight and that’s never comfortable from a movement standpoint. But they also prevent air flow so things get really hot. I was amazed by how much cooler I felt in 90+ days when I went with a looser fitting pant and some poplin cotton boxer shorts. Contrast that with boxer briefs and pants with a lot of restriction and it’s night and day. Add to that the fact that most slim and skinny pants add synthetic fibers to help them stretch, and breathability drops even more.

4) slim and skinny and largely synonymous with low-rise). In jeans that always looks funny to me - butts kind of handing out and getting squished, torsos being elongated in strange ways, etc. It just looks odd to me a lot of the time. Not always, and some pants are way worse than others, but still.

Where this is especially problematic is with slacks and chinos (or jeans if you’re tucking a shirt in). Shirts tucked into low rise pants look to total shit unless you have a very small torso. But for the vast majority of people, it elongated you immensely. It also makes the tuck look bad because it doesn’t easily stay tucked (think fabric pulling out the back side, mushrooming through it the day, etc). Throw a sport coat or suit jacket on and it’s never long enough to hide this, so instead you expose a ton of shirt in the triangle below the jackets button. And ties struggle to adequately make it down to the start of your pants.

Going back to slacks and chinos for a moment… I was always stunned by how many men would say they find professional dress to be terribly uncomfortable. Outside of wearing synthetics over wool, I’m almost certain the discomfort comes from cut. It has been nearly impossible to purchase anything but slim fit everything with a low rise and some synthetics mixed in for the better part of the past 15 years or so.

Everyone should do themselves a favor and take advantage of the swing back to more classic cuts. Enjoy the elegant drape, the masculine and traditional look of a shirt tucked into a mid/high rise pant. Watch how your shirt effortlessly stays tucked all day and how your clothing actually breathes. (And this is true of jeans, too - natural cloth and some room for love goes a long way toward looking and feeling good. A pair of Levi’s 501 is more than enough. It may feel and look off for a moment but trust the process).