Best pants to maintain a sharp crease?

[mac266]

I've been using Smitty exclusively due to cost. However, the association I'm trying to get hired into insists on having a sharp crease. Smitty couldn't hold a crease if you welded them (sarcasm). I've looked at Gerry Davis, and they do hold a crease but they fade way too quickly to justify the extra cost.

 

What else it out there that both holds a crease AND its color?

[WIUMP]

Iron + starch.

[Rock Bottom]

I haven't used this, but it's what Gemini suggested: https://supercrease.com/dry-cleaners-tailors/

[johnnyg08]

Hopefully the group you're auditioning for also appreciates those who get their calls right. This is something so minor and inconsequential, it must be a very elite group to be looking at creases in pants. 

This group probably wants you to also remove the "MLB" logo on the shirt b/c "you're not an MLB umipre" even though said shirts are simply sold w/ the logo...it's not like it was put on their by the umpire. Sigh

[SeeingEyeDog]

Wool slacks are always going to give the "sharpest crease". They will also always be the warmest pants on a hot day so...priorities, it seems.

~Dawg

[Marcus6]

17 hours ago, Rock Bottom said:

I haven't used this, but it's what Gemini suggested: https://supercrease.com/dry-cleaners-tailors/

Back in the day, the Hardwick made Honigs Poly Wools had these applied (I still have a few pairs 15+ years old) and the crease was “unbreakable.” As has also been said, wool blend pants will hold a crease better anyways and the Smitty poly spandex are terrible at holding a crease and wrinkling in general. Worth a shot with the poly spandex pants. 

[umpintosh]

On 4/25/2026 at 10:54 AM, mac266 said:

I've looked at Gerry Davis, and they do hold a crease but they fade way to quickly to justify the extra cost.

 

In my experience, Davis pants fade much slower than Smitty pants.

[Thatsnotyou]

7 hours ago, johnnyg08 said:

Hopefully the group you're auditioning for also appreciates those who get their calls right. This is something so minor and inconsequential, it must be a very elite group to be looking at creases in pants. 

This group probably wants you to also remove the "MLB" logo on the shirt b/c "you're not an MLB umipre" even though said shirts are simply sold w/ the logo...it's not like it was put on their by the umpire. Sigh

Odd thing to focus on. I get a nice appearance. But an extra sharp crease in the pants? This has to be the work of someone that’s 80 years old. 

[JonnyCat]

1 hour ago, Thatsnotyou said:

Odd thing to focus on. I get a nice appearance. But an extra sharp crease in the pants? This has to be the work of someone that’s 80 years old. 

It's so we can look like the Kinney shoe salesmen with our 1970's inspired slacks! Add a tucked in jacket, ohh so stylish! (Not bagging on anyone, I just think our uniforms are waaaaay outdated. I do like a nice crease though.)

[MadMax]

On 4/25/2026 at 9:54 AM, mac266 said:

However, the association I'm trying to get hired into insists on having a sharp crease.

Vanity, vanity... all is vanity. 

What difference does it really make?

On 4/26/2026 at 8:57 PM, Thatsnotyou said:

Odd thing to focus on. I get a nice appearance. But an extra sharp crease in the pants? This has to be the work of someone that’s 80 years old. 

If the association you're auditioning for is a solely collegiate association (or, alternatively, led by collegiate umpires), I can venture an experienced guess why they perseverate on sartorial details like this. Insidiously, it's not someone who's 80 years old; oh no no, instead, it's someone younger... think mid-40s / 50s... 

On 4/26/2026 at 10:20 PM, JonnyCat said:

It's so we can look like the Kinney shoe salesmen with our 1970's inspired slacks! Add a tucked in jacket, ohh so stylish!

What's absolutely maddening, is working for one particular association/assigner, who insists that we are to "look like the Big League guys", yet another association – often at the same or similar level of competition – insists, nay mandates, that we are not "Big League guys" and we will never wear that style of uniform (ie. shirts, shirt colors (ahem, Wisconsin just a few years ago), jackets, pants, etc.). Like that assigner / association head has a chip on his shoulder, or a grudge against the Big Leagues because he... oh... ohhhhhh... I get it. 😉

Again, if you provide the uniforms, then you have all the control and justification of directing what we wear. If ya don't... If you're too freakin' cheap or that much of a control freak over your little fiefdom...