Gear

Please find my 3 month review of the Mountain Equipment Stretchlite Guide Pants incl. photos here

"An admission straight off, this is my 2nd pair of Mountain Equipment Stretchlite Guide Pants so I obviously don’t thing they’re rubbish. With a couple of caveats I actually think they’re very good for general hiking and backpacking in mild to warm climates ................................."

What the hell are 'regular length' trousers?

It's increasingly the case that manufacturers make a range of leg lengths.  This is a Good Thing in stuff that might be hard to hem, because of material or furniture around the ankles like scuff patches or gusset zips. Just as general sizes tend to abbreviate to "Small", "Medium" and "Large", with slightly different values for any given builder, so leg length smay well be "Short", "Regular" and "Long".

ME, according to their web site, that means 29", 31" and 33" inside legs respectively.

Pete.

Pedro, I think you've spotted that great fallback of marketing departments: pointing out the bleedin' obvious and making it a selling point.

In this case ME will sell you trews where each leg is the same length!

(As for coffee, it more typically seems to come in Big, Bigger, Very Very Big and Enormous)

Pete.