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I'm wondering if any denizens of the FL can help me.
I'd like to stop wearing jeans so often, but I've struggled to find the kind of trousers I'm looking for.
Forgive me if I don't use the proper terms below:
I'd like to have the sort of casual trousers that might have been worn in lieu of jeans in the late Forties or early Fifties. Full cut (maybe a slight taper toward the ankle), cuffed, and with a nice drape, so chinos won't really fit the bill.
I wear mostly vintage sport shirts (my workplace is a very casual one) with squared-off hems (left untucked), so a high waist isn't a necessity, but I wouldn't mind a slight rise in the waist for when I do want to tuck in a shirt and wear a sports coat over the trousers.
In the fall and winter, I'd be pretty flexible about the fabric, as long as it was reasonably warm. I have a low tolerance for itchiness, but beyond that, I'm open.
In spring and especially the summer, though, a lack of itchiness would be vital, as I have little tolerance for the heat or, especially, the humidity that is so pervasive here in New York City. I'm not looking for linen or anything like that; it needn't be nearly that light a fabric. A gabardine (if I'm right about what exactly gabardine is) or something like that would do.
These don't have to be greatest trousers ever made -- I definitely intend for them to be casual wear, worn in place of jeans. But of course I'd like them to look sharp and fairly accurate to the time period, the waist, perhaps, excepted. And I'd like them to be durable enough to last several years at least, with proper care.
I'm not a wealthy man, so I can't really afford to pay top-dollar for MTM. But I would buy several pairs (a minimum of six, I'd say, and perhaps as many as ten) if I could find them at a reasonably affordable price for either ready-made or MTM.
What say you guys? Do you know of a source for what I'm looking for?
I'd like to stop wearing jeans so often, but I've struggled to find the kind of trousers I'm looking for.
Forgive me if I don't use the proper terms below:
I'd like to have the sort of casual trousers that might have been worn in lieu of jeans in the late Forties or early Fifties. Full cut (maybe a slight taper toward the ankle), cuffed, and with a nice drape, so chinos won't really fit the bill.
I wear mostly vintage sport shirts (my workplace is a very casual one) with squared-off hems (left untucked), so a high waist isn't a necessity, but I wouldn't mind a slight rise in the waist for when I do want to tuck in a shirt and wear a sports coat over the trousers.
In the fall and winter, I'd be pretty flexible about the fabric, as long as it was reasonably warm. I have a low tolerance for itchiness, but beyond that, I'm open.
In spring and especially the summer, though, a lack of itchiness would be vital, as I have little tolerance for the heat or, especially, the humidity that is so pervasive here in New York City. I'm not looking for linen or anything like that; it needn't be nearly that light a fabric. A gabardine (if I'm right about what exactly gabardine is) or something like that would do.
These don't have to be greatest trousers ever made -- I definitely intend for them to be casual wear, worn in place of jeans. But of course I'd like them to look sharp and fairly accurate to the time period, the waist, perhaps, excepted. And I'd like them to be durable enough to last several years at least, with proper care.
I'm not a wealthy man, so I can't really afford to pay top-dollar for MTM. But I would buy several pairs (a minimum of six, I'd say, and perhaps as many as ten) if I could find them at a reasonably affordable price for either ready-made or MTM.
What say you guys? Do you know of a source for what I'm looking for?
