Wide pants: brand recommendations and inspirations (2/2)

3. CARHARTT

Style : streetwear, workwear, casual

“Regular” and “relax” pants will be suitable if you are looking for fullness.

There are lots of different designs and colors, so you have plenty to choose from.

4. DICKIES

Style : workwear, streetwear, casual

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Just be careful of the presence of synthetics in certain pieces.

5. ARKET

You will find comfortable cut pants every season at Arket, in mostly natural fabrics.

6. UNIQLO

Casual style

The brand offers some pants with a more generous cut.

The brand speaks of a “relaxed”, “regular” or “straight” cut.

6. VINTAGE/MILITARY THrift STORE

Style : workwear, military, casual

Don't hesitate to go to thrift stores or military surplus stores to find loose-fitting pants, whether vintage Levi's 501 jeans or other vintage and military chinos.

For online military thrift stores, accessible wherever you are, look at:

• Broadway&Sons
• Military Goods

MIDRANGE

1. CASATLANTIC

Style : casual chic

Do you want scale? There is plenty to do at Casatlantic.

All the cuts offered are wide or even very wide, including leg openings above 20cm.

From least wide to widest, we have:

• El Jadida, which is already a rather generous cut
• Safi
• Mogador
• Tangier, which is a very, very loose fit

2. NORSE PROJECTS

Casual style

The Danish brand offers its pants each season in a wide range of cuts. You will find the precise measurements on each product on their eshop.

3. BENEVENTO

Style : dressy, sartorial

I presented a pair of chinos from the brand in this article .

Benevento offers a beautiful range of dress pants with a slightly carrot cut, tightened at the ankle.

4. MR. P

Style : casual chic

Mr.P is the own brand of the Mr. Porter e-shop.

You will find a wide range of clothing, including pants in all types of cuts, including straight cuts.

5. OUTLAND

The young French brand offers a range of pants in loose cuts.

Pleated chinos will appeal to fans of casual chic style, looking for chinos that are slightly dressier than average but not too dressy either.

6. UNIVERSAL WORKS

Style : workwear, casual

The English brand offers a wide range of pants. You will find several cuts, available in several materials and colors.

Apart from the Aston Pant which has a slightly fitted cut, the other models have more generous cuts.

The brand's pants are generally rather short.

7. NATALINO

Style : dressy, sartorial

At Natalino, the style is dressy, chic, the cut of the pants is straight and slightly tight at the ankle (between 19 and 20cm of lower leg).

TOP OF THE LINE

1. GENERAL OFFICE

Style : casual chic, soft tailoring

The brand offers several cuts in each collection with a well-balanced fullness.

Apart from the Paul cut which is fitted, the other models are either carrot cut or straight cut.

2. SCAVINI

Style : dressy, sartorial

We like the pants offered by Julien Scavini.

Four cuts, lots of fabric choices, a beautiful way.

The S3 cut is the most generous.

3. ABCL GARMENTS

Casual style

The Italian brand offers pants with a generous cut in each collection.

The Miniera model has a straight cut.

The brand recently released a model called Wide which is even roomier.

4. INFORMAL

Style : casual chic / workwear

The Australian brand offers a nice selection of pants with well-crafted straight cuts.

5. GOOD INVOICE

Style : soft tailoring

For several years, the French brand has offered several generously cut pants each season.

6. BERG&BERG

Style : casual chic, sartorial

The Swedish brand offers dress pants with beautiful volumes every season.

There are several variations: the Anton and Antonio models are the largest. The Arnold, Alfons and Alfonso models are a bit more fitted but remain rather straight.

Michel told you in this article about pants from the brand .

7. NIGEL CABOURN

The British brand offers very beautiful pants in sought-after materials and generous cuts.

9. CRAFTSMAN CLOTHING

Style: casual chic

Even more than the Superstitch model LR-01 t-shirts

SOME INSPIRATIONS FROM THE EDITORIAL

Finally, I offer you some looks commented on by the team.

If you haven't already done so, I invite you to take a look at the editorial staff's 40 favorite Instagram accounts .

You will find a plethora of accounts offering looks with beautiful pants, with volume in the leg.

I was looking for a fairly simple look in its composition: beige chinos, gray sweater, brown suede derbies. The buttoned vest stands out a little more from the crowd. Blue, it nevertheless remains discreet.

The cap is optional.

This gentleman looks a bit stout and we see that he manages to balance his figure with a slightly fitted top and looser bottoms.

Here is a look that I find easy to find a touch of inspiration in.

“To echo David's demonstration above, I would like to show how the same principle applies just as well to a very thin physique.

The key is to leave just enough fullness at the top so that the volume appears harmonious: unlike the outfit exhibited by David, here the top must follow the body while blurring it, while the bottom leaves room to a truly marked extent.

Furthermore, the outfit is particularly served by the fluidity of the wool, as well as the uniqueness of color between the jacket and the pants which form the suit.

On stiffer cotton, or a mismatch, the outfit would surely have had a less obvious aesthetic to implement. It is these two elements that allow the pants to be wide AND long, while remaining harmonious, whereas we normally recommend being particularly vigilant about excess length as the bottoms widen.

The result is a feeling of textile opulence, generosity of materials, and nonchalant comfort. »

“For years I wore fitted pants that were too tight for my cycling calves. The latter refusing to get used to the standard dimensions of the market, they designed real boat hulls behind my shins.

One (nice) day, I put on wide pants. Well, pretty straight. With an opening of 20 centimeters. In the industry, he called himself "regular".

It was a joy: the air circulated, the blood too, I felt my knees again and I discovered what truly coherent proportions were on a silhouette. With legs defined without being compressed. Just right.

It's a revelation that I wish for anyone who cycled too much in their youth.

Also, I have since often played the game of wide pants. Really wide this time, making my legs disappear in favor of a play of volumes serving style.

A bit like the gentleman above. The workwear style lends itself well to loose pants. Since it is a universe that demands a certain comfort and a practical dimension.

Here, the layering creates volume at the top, and the width of the chinos responds well to this volume. Rolled up short, it stops just where it needs to so as not to give the impression of too long pants.

Tight all the way up, the boots give rise to a contrast of volumes which punctuates the whole with finesse. »

There are wide and wide.

I mean: there is the ideal width for a body shape and there is the exaggerated width to deliver a fashion message. Sometimes I play on one and sometimes on the other.

I wore semi-slim until the day I actually looked in the mirror. The observation was the following: my legs were rather short and had rather generous thighs. The right thing to do was to ditch semi-slim, mid-rise fits in favor of looser, straight or carrot-cut pants with a higher rise.

The first outfit above illustrates this point: these pants, which many will consider wide in absolute terms, are in fact not so if we consider their body shape: they are pants with the right width . Because it is consistent with the proportions of the silhouette. It fits harmoniously to pay homage to its physique.

But just because you don't have thick legs doesn't mean you should give up on the idea of ​​wearing baggy pants.

Just because you don't have teeth doesn't mean you can't have style.

So here are the wide pants exacerbated, pushed to their paroxysm so that they become, not a rational response to a morphological given, but a fashion effect.

In fact, here it is also a question of proportions, as always. But the basis of this choice of wide pants comes from the aesthetic desire to wear volume. Thus the accumulation at the top, of layers of clothing and the presence of a wide and long coat which flies in the wind induces the choice of the width of the pants to remain in the same harmony.