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I wanted a lot of pant

This post isn’t about the bag up there. It’s a nice bag – Master-Piece, Cordura nylon canvas, vegetable tanned natural suede straps – but this isn’t about that. It’s about the trousers. I copped for some Engineered Garments Workadays. In a size large. I could easily fit a medium. But I super-sized. I wanted a lot of pant. And I got it.

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Still, when they arrived, I was slightly taken aback by the capaciousness. They’re pretty much parallel, there’s no sensitive taper towards the angle, these things billow. Even with a chunky roll-up, they flap like a wounded goose. But Christ they’re comfy. After years of slim jeanery, a voluminous trouser doesn’t half release the tensions. All your apples and pears have space. They’re breezy too, like you’ve got groinal air-con. If you’re still stuck adhering to some notion that slim trews = trendy, get over your bad self. Number one, you’re wrong. Number two, you’re missing out on some savage comfort.

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The rest of the day’s outfit is as you see above. I’ve rolled out my Cottonopolis popover (Oi Polloi’s in-house brand that seems to be on hiatus) a trusty Superior Labor bucket and some new indigo dyed socks from Anonymous Ism.

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But back to the trousers. They’re from the Workaday EG sub-brand. I grabbed them over here at Blue Button Shop and even with them coming from Canada, they worked out cheaper than if I’d bought them from a UK store – taxes and stuff I guess. Workaday is all about clothes to work in apparently, they’re built to last. And I can report after an arduous day of reading in a coffee house, buying a cake on the way home and re-watching four episodes of Entourage, in preparation for the release of the film, they held up very well.

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