Gear: Stio Dulcet Ski Pants

February 9th, 2013 • BY Rachel Sturtz

In a world overrun with black pants—stretchy, butt-enhancing, stomach-controlling, flared, straight leg, wicking—it seems like another pair would just be a reiteration of everything that came before it. Well, maybe there’d be a different colored waistband. But the Stio Dulcet Pant ($150) is something magical: they’re the outdoorswoman’s answer to lululemon—if lululemon played a little harder.

The stretch woven softshell pants come coated with DWR, a protective fabric coating that repels water and snow during endeavors such as snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, or ice skating, while remaining breathable enough to keep you from overheating.

But the true genius of these black pants comes in the slim fit. A flattering rear view has never been a concern of mine when I’m skating through snowy fields, but good Lord if it were, these pants deliver. Not only do they fit perfectly—a little high-waisted without strangling the midsection, slim through the leg, a zipper at the ankles to slide a boot over or under the pant—but they move with you.

You can sit. You can bend your legs without fabric tension yanking at your kneecap. The soft hand of the interior is comfortable against the skin. You can do anything you would do in a pair of tights in this softshell fabric that also happens to guard you from the elements.

When you’re done working out, throw on an oversized sweater for aprés-ski drinks, and you’d never know these were meant to be anything more than stylish. I wore them out to dinner with friends, purely as part of an outfit, and got compliments. Little did my friends know that with these pants, I was ready for anything.

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About Rachel Sturtz

Rachel Sturtz is a freelance writer and expat New York editor living in Denver, where she can finally test gear somewhere other than Central Park. When not covering health and fitness for mags like Women's Health, Fitness, Shape, and Running Times, she travels to places like Moscow to write about surly ballerinas for Hemispheres and interviews celebs like Tom Colicchio about how to cook the perfect steak for Allure. Sturtz's preferred— More about this author →