I’m not going to shut up about pleated trousers. In my view, they’re so the-only-way-to-wear-trousers-right-now, that I’m blind to any other styles of trousers. Pleated trousers, ARE trousers. Trousers have pleats. If yours don’t. You’re not wearing trousers.
OTHER/Shop’s in-house line pretty much owns the game and these are a good example. They’re double pleated (although they also do a treble) and if you give the hem a couple of turns, they’re about as on-point as trousers get right now. I mean, to be fair, the whole pleated thing has looked mad-fresh for time, but for some reason it hasn’t blown up as a mainstream ‘fad’ – for which I’m thankful.
If your pantaloon game is still locked into a flat fronted, slim cut, you should maybe give a fuller, pleated shape a go. Try some on. Enjoy the capaciousness. Feel that airy, looseness. That extra space gives you room to move. Room to swing round and pull off a couple of Butterfly Twist Kicks when you’re jumped by members of a rival dojo. I’ll be honest, that doesn’t happen to me that often. But it’s good to be prepared.
Never got with the flat front skinny kecks in the first place personally, just felt like a cornetto in them. There was a period where i thought id forever stand alone in the pleated pant, glad stuck with it.