Comments on: I’m Disinclined to Take Fashion Advice from a Guy Who Emphasizes Comfort Over Style and, Worse, Calls Pants “Trousers”

By: cb

cb — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:07:09 +0000

Um, I still value comfort in my clothing. But I would never call them trousers.

I call them “slacks”.

By: Laura V

Laura V — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:09:26 +0000

I get the Orvis catalog, because I buy from it — for my father-in-law, who is a general contractor and LOVES this kind of thing. Cabela’s is better, but comes less frequently.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:24:06 +0000

I dont wear Orvis um, trousers, but I do like their shirts.

My dad was the son of small time Brooklyn gangsters, so this look is nothing I would ever associate with him.

All that tweed & plaid looks either ironic or lumberjack-ish or both on me.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:01:29 +0000

Get a pair of pants like that and the next thing you know, the waistband is hiked up under your armpits and you’re yelling at the neighbors kids to get off the lawn.

I will admit though, as 54 comes barreling along in my direction, the notion of embracing the Scots side of the family and sporting a kilt has a certain vague appeal.

By: DEMO

DEMO — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:17:15 +0000

“It’s addressed not to me nor to the people who lived in my apartment before me nor even the person who lived in it before them. Yes, I’ve asked around. This is an ancient evil.”

THAT is too funny. I get stuff like that. Mostly offers of free tickets to comedy shows — nothing so ~sinister~ as offers of trousers.

I can’t get the picture to load (sniffle).

DEMO

By: FD

FD — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:51:33 +0000

You’re 52?

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:32:38 +0000

I myself wear pantaloons. So there.

By: Malle Babbe

Malle Babbe — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:27:54 +0000

We call them “slacks” down here because they ain’t “tights”; at least you dudes aren’t faced with the awkward term “pant” that I have found in the ladies’ section of a number of catalogs that I am too buzzed to list right now… I must say though, if the likes of John Barrowman and Harrison Ford can’t make pleat fronts look good, it is a sign that they must go… Embrace the flat fronts…

Those pants must really put you and B-Bro off if even the sight of Paul Newman winking at you can’t distract you from the sartorial horror a few pages later.

By: Tater

Tater — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:50:16 +0000

Keep the catalogue and the trousers, I’ll take what’s behind door number one (if that is indeed the humanitarian, wonderful actor, and incredibly sexy, Paul Newman).

By: Jackie Danicki

Jackie Danicki — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:22:58 +0000

See, “trousers” just strikes me as an anglicism. It’s “slacks” I have a problem with…