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The Wide Trouser, front view, on grey pattern paper.
The Wide Trouser photographed close, showing the cloth and the stitch.
A pattern being marked out in pencil on spot-and-cross paper.
Hands feeding cloth through a flatbed machine in the workroom.

01 · Trousers

The Wide Trouser

₹4,800

One piece, taken apart. The other six are made the same way; we are not going to write this out seven times.

Waist, and what is left

  • S 76 cm — in stock
  • M 81 cm — in stock
  • L 86 cm — sold out
  • XL 91 cm — in stock

Sold out: L

We can hold a piece for 48 hours.

Cloth
Heavy cotton twill
Composition
100% cotton
Weight
340 gsm
Colour
Indigo
Made
Cut and sewn in Bengaluru, forty minutes from the shop, by a workroom of nine.
Length
Inside leg is left long at 88 cm and finished to your leg in the shop, usually while you wait.
Care
Wash at 30 °C, inside out, on its own for the first three washes — the indigo will give. Line dry. Do not tumble.

The cut

The pattern is graded from a 1950s French work trouser we cut apart. We kept the rise and the width and lost the pleats.

How it is put together

  • Single-needle side seams, felled and topstitched at 6 mm.
  • Unfused waistband, interlined with woven cotton canvas so it softens rather than bubbles.
  • A two-piece back rise, which costs an extra operation and keeps the seat clean.
  • Bar-tacked at both pocket mouths and at the fly.
  • Pocket bags in the same twill as the trouser, not in lining cloth.
  • Buttonholes worked on a keyhole machine; the button is corozo, not resin.

How our sizes are measured

The rest of the rail

All twelve