Light Grey Flannel Trousers -- DEAD?

[Matt Deckard]

They'll be back... Brooks Brothers always carries modern versions though I can't take the low waist. I have a fe pair of vintage ones and some from Ralph, though they are not that easy to find nowadays. I suppose its because flannels are heavy and we are in a society that likes lightweight dress clothes.

 

[Slim Portly]

Agreed. I am seeing plenty of gray suits with brown shoes these days.

I like this look.

 

[scotrace]

I'm still not seeing these in stores.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I'm still not seeing these in stores.

Back in October or so, Ermenegildo Zegna (among several other makers) tried to bring back light grey flannel suits --both single and double-breasted-- for Spring '09. He plastered the inside front covers of Esquire and GQ with ads showing the suits. Don't know how successful they were.

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[Lamplight]

This is not good news. I recently got a free sport coat that is an odd greenish-blue color, and I had planned to get some light grey flannel trousers to go with it. In fact, I'm not sure any other color will do with this particular coat.

 

[ddcronk]

I just ordered a pair of light gray flannels on clearance from Brooks Brothers. After my discount, tax, shipping and handling, it came out to $106.00. Not bad at all for that kind of thing, if you can stand slightly more modern styling.

Dan

 

[Creeping Past]

It looks like Bookster in the UK is making grey flannels. But there are no images on their site yet. Perhaps there'll be some light greys on offer.

 

[Evan Everhart]

Somewhat off topic but, pertinent I think to the issue over all

Ugh. That is why I hate fashion. There is no choice but what is "now and popular".

Fashion is Not what one must follow, but, one's own Personal Style - which, is developed over the years regardless of passing fads and trends and Horrid Horrid So-Called Fashions and Always looks good on YOU. If you have your own personal style which you've developed to look good on you and fit your lifestyle and likes and dislikes and body type, you will never feel let down by your clothing or look out of place because everyone else is wearing something different. Rather, you will look exactly like what you will be then, an individual, a maven even, perhaps! Someone who stands out of the crowd with panache and style. Men's clothing is about tradition and classical elegance and Male Presence. It is only a modern bastardization of Men's wear perpetrated by those who want to make a cheap product which wears out in a few years (and even if it doesn't, it will still look ugly outside of the ridiculous little vacuole of finite space and time in which it existed, that flash of a moment in which whatever monstrosity they foisted upon you was supposedly considered "Fashionable" even if not tasteful or elegant or anything else laudable.) The first step towards a personal style is to stop buying massed produced garments for the most part and instead, turn towards tailor crafted garments with the exception of quality mass produced garments which actually do suit your personal taste. Find a good tailor, see what you can see and do what you need to, to exercise your self expression! I was never happy with my clothing for the most part till I began to have it made for me. Its often reasonable enough if you look in the right places! By the by, you can blame Pierre Cardin etc., et all for modern men's wear being such mass produces low quality drivel. Even expensive suits today are made cheaply and out of cheap tissue fabrics which are marketed as if their flimsiness were a good selling point! Good gray flannels are impossible to find whether its at Brooks Brothers or Thom Browne or whatever other farcical mass producer of crackerjack menswear du jour is out there. Have it made by a good tailor and you will never be dissatisfied.

 

[vonwotan]

The certainly are more difficult to find! Ben Silver has light grey flannel trousers available, Ralph Lauren does occasionally but, for about the same price I prefer to go to a tailor who can make a higher waist and a longer rise.

 

[Aloysius]

It looks like Bookster in the UK is making grey flannels. But there are no images on their site yet. Perhaps there'll be some light greys on offer.

I emailed them about the flannels. There will be three greys. My swatches should be arriving in the mail soon. I'll check with them and if they give the go-ahead, I'll post photos.

 

[miss_elise]

You watch: in 2009 or 2010, the clothing stores will be SATURATED with light grey flannel trousers.

so... where are they?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

so... where are they?

Actually, they arrived --as suits-- in the Spring of '09. As I mentioned before, Zegna and other designers featured them heavily on the runways. Unfortunately, the male public didn't seem to go for the look.


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[miss_elise]

unlucky for you then.... and for everyone else

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Some examples of the Zegna light grey flannel suits from Spring '09:

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[Feraud]

Fashion is Not what one must follow, but, one's own Personal Style - which, is developed over the years regardless of passing fads and trends and Horrid Horrid So-Called Fashions and Always looks good on YOU. If you have your own personal style which you've developed to look good on you and fit your lifestyle and likes and dislikes and body type, you will never feel let down by your clothing or look out of place because everyone else is wearing something different. Rather, you will look exactly like what you will be then, an individual, a maven even, perhaps! Someone who stands out of the crowd with panache and style. Men's clothing is about tradition and classical elegance and Male Presence. It is only a modern bastardization of Men's wear perpetrated by those who want to make a cheap product which wears out in a few years (and even if it doesn't, it will still look ugly outside of the ridiculous little vacuole of finite space and time in which it existed, that flash of a moment in which whatever monstrosity they foisted upon you was supposedly considered "Fashionable" even if not tasteful or elegant or anything else laudable.) The first step towards a personal style is to stop buying massed produced garments for the most part and instead, turn towards tailor crafted garments with the exception of quality mass produced garments which actually do suit your personal taste. Find a good tailor, see what you can see and do what you need to, to exercise your self expression! I was never happy with my clothing for the most part till I began to have it made for me. Its often reasonable enough if you look in the right places! By the by, you can blame Pierre Cardin etc., et all for modern men's wear being such mass produces low quality drivel. Even expensive suits today are made cheaply and out of cheap tissue fabrics which are marketed as if their flimsiness were a good selling point! Good gray flannels are impossible to find whether its at Brooks Brothers or Thom Browne or whatever other farcical mass producer of crackerjack menswear du jour is out there. Have it made by a good tailor and you will never be dissatisfied.

Most average joes cannnot or will not go the custom route.

 

[donCarlos]

Some examples of the Zegna light grey flannel suits from Spring '09:

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Marc, you did it again, you made me want something that I can´t afford even on lease. Their spring/summer catalog 2009 contains at least four suits I need urgently.

So tommorow´s scheduel is clear - I must visit their shop in Prague and at least try these suits.
(I can imagine their faces, when a pennyless student walks in and wants to try everything...)

 

[Aloysius]

I've been trying to attach the photos of Bookster's flannel cloth but I am unable to. Is there a workaround to this problem?

 

[Tomasso]

I've been trying to attach the photos of Bookster's flannel cloth but I am unable to. Is there a workaround to this problem?

Upload your photos to a hosting site , then copy and paste them into your post.

 

[Aloysius]

Upload your photos to a hosting site , then copy and paste them into your post.

Oh I know that. I was just hoping for a way to do it directly. No worries. The photos shall be up momentarily.

 

[Aloysius]