Since these shorts are exclusively indoor rowing trou and I do live alone, and when I wear them out, I also wear a pair of gym shorts, I might be willing to allow these cotton shorts to really get pilled and threadbare and even holey until they just become unwearable to me and not just publicly unwearable-publicly inappropriate, if you know what I mean. I threw on a pair of super-duper over-engineered and overbuilt XXL polypro Erg Trou on instead of the blown-out XL C2 cotton rowing shorts and I was good-to-go They blew out when I was sitting down for an indoor row. UPDATE: I have indeed blown through a pair of these cotton rowing trou, just as I had feared. I feel like the cotton pair might be less durable-but I am willing to budget to replace them or get more than one pair so that I can distribute the wear and tear on each one over time. Two really old pair have become a little threadbare (I wouldn't wear them to Yoga, they might be a little too see-through) but I still wear them, and shall until they actually rip through. That said, I am already fearing that the cotton shorts aren't as durable as my Polypro JL rowing trou, all of which have survived for years of abuse. They breathe differently and they're much more comfortable over the longer-term than are my Polypropylene JLRowing rowing trou, which I always buy out of their Bargain Bin. Until a month ago, I was a true blue JL Racing / JL Rowing / JLAthletics rowing trou devotee - until I tried out a pair of the Cotton Lycra Shorts that Concept2 sells on its very own Online Shop. So, make your own choices and spend your own money, but Boathouse is what I wear every day and it's what I recommend. I haven't slipped on a pair of the C2 Cotton Lycra rowing shorts or any of my old JL Athletics unisuits or trou for a year now. So, I can't recommend JL anymore and need, alas, to only recommend for rowing and erging trou. My boathouse, PBC, used to choose JL but now they've left to BH -as have many.
However, every single pair of trou and unisuits I have bought from have always been completely stretchy and comfortable and durable and while I don't think they're as bombproof as my Made in America old-school JL Rowing gear were back in the day, those days are over.
Now, the unisuits I buy from JL might or might not fit, the stretch of the Lycra might or might not be stiff and tight. While JL Athletics had always been extremely durable-bombproof, actually-something's happened the moment JL started cutting corners and pinching pennies, exporting their production from Santa Ana, California, to El Salvador -though I think the build quality isn't an issue as much as just the materials. I got my first one because my boathouse, Potomac Boat Club, transitioned from branded unisuits and trou from JL Rowing to Boathouse unisuits and Boathouse rowing trou and I have been very happy with the quality and the durability and the comfort. I had spent a couple of decades rowing and erging in JL Racing trou and unis but have transitioned, in 2018 or 2019, from JL to. While you can, and should, row in whatever shorts you have on -even pantsless if you own your own erg -there are some better solutions. I've put a lot of meters onto my PM5-updated twenty-year-old Model C Concept2.
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