I bought a black scuba a while back, sometime earlier this year maybe around the spring. Then recently I decided to buy the matching wide leg scuba sweatpants to complete the set with my black OS funnel neck scuba.

However, I got the pants today and compared to the scuba sweater, the material is different. Idk if you can tell, it’s very hard to capture with the camera, but the scuba pants fabric looks to be of a different thickness and quality. It feels thinner and looks like a different “weave”?

Has anyone else seen a difference between scuba sweaters vs pants? Is it a new vs old thing or are the pants just different from the sweaters? And, key point—should I keep or return the pants?