Standard trousers in navy blue linen

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Garment

£155.00

Trousers with a standard leg, made in London, with navy blue linen from a mill in Northern Ireland, and horn buttons from the Midlands.

Sizing

The trousers fit true to the marked size. The trouser hem may be lengthened for an additional ½ inch — taking the length to 33½.

XS S M L XL
Waist 28 30 32 34 36
Leg 32 32 32 32 32
Rise 11 11½ 11½ 12 12
Hem 7 7 7½ 7½ 8
Image of the Standard trousers in navy blue linen
The trousers have a standard leg — neither especially wide nor narrow. They are made from mid-weight blue linen from Northern Ireland. A nice, dry quality of linen, this — and a really open-weave (see images further down the page). As such, it is very lightweight and highly breathable.
At the back, the trousers have welt pockets with button-loop fastening (right). Back here, the trousers are cut with extra room, which provides comfort and allows the wearer to sit down without the leg rising up too far above shoe level.
In-seam pockets are what the trousers have at the side. They have bar-tack stitches, top and bottom. for strength. They are your standard trouser pockets — only very well made and finished. Like the rest of the trouser, the idea is that they look as clean and tidy on the outside as when turned inside-out.
The legs have lap-seams down both sides. A renownedly durable seam, this, and arduous to make — especially down both sides of the leg. Known sometimes as a French seam, their presence means you would have to do something dramatic indeed for them to ever even to begin wearing through.
The trousers have a three-button fly, and a one-button fly-guard (both right). The buttons here, as everywhere else on the trousers, are horn, light tortoiseshell in colour — each one being slightly different in hue and markings. The trousers are half-lined at the leg with blue cotton (below-right).

As worn

The gent here is 5'9". The trousers he wears are M, since he has a waist that measures just above 32 inches.

Makers of

The trousers are made in London by a factory which — since they are so sturdily built, particularly at the seams — specialises in heavy outerwear. Making them, in fact, can be a gruelling task, entailing as it does umpteen more stages than most trousers — at least five of which demand a hammer.
The cloth is woven by a linen mill, a few miles south of Belfast in Northern Ireland. The mill was built at the end of the 1800s, back when Belfast was "Linenopolis". That it is the last mill still standing in the area is testament to its exemplary work in the weaving, dying, and finishing of luxury-grade linen.
The horn buttons are cut, shaped, and polished by the last such factory in Britain. It continues a tradition in the Midlands, first linked to the area's meat markets, in the 18th century. "It is no easy task," said William Hutton in 1780, "to enumerate the infinite diversity of buttons here in Birmingham."