With the recent arrival of the new and larger iPhone 6 Plus, along with the consternation it has caused among users unable to stick the thing in their pockets, the fashion industry is agonizing over nothing short of the future of pants.
As Yohana Desta at Mashable.com puts it, this is a very sobering moment for the makers of khaki, cargo and capris:
Along with Samsung’s mammoth Galaxy phones, Apple’s phablet mega-sized phone is starting to look like the future of mobile tech.
That’s bad news for your pants. Gone are the days of casually stuffing your palm-sized phone in your pocket. Phablets are too big for such a trend, causing people to worry: Where do we put our phones now?
The New York Post summed it up this way:
Thinking about splurging on a new iPhone 6 Plus? You may want to make sure it fits in your pocket first.
last month, retailers are considering enlarging the pocket sizes on pants to accommodate the 5.5-inch “phablet.”
In response, a slew of clothing designers have been brainstorming among themselves to create pants that can accommodate the larger phones. Desta collected this spellbinding list of who’s doing what to solve the Great Phablet/Pants Crisis of 2014:
Photo: Left to right: the iPhone 5, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. (Getty Images)
