Relaxed Duck Carpenter Trousers, Slate

Another slate pair of duck carpenter trousers, unlined and relaxed, for the people who buy work trousers two at a time.

There is a practical reason to own more than one identical pair, and anyone who works in trousers already knows it: one pair is always in the wash, and mixing colours across a working week is more trouble than it is worth. What you get here is unlined duck with stretch, room through the seat and thigh, and the loop and long pocket that make the carpenter cut worth choosing.

Slate is dark enough to disappear and light enough not to look like formal black. Take your usual waist. Wear them until the knee goes, which on duck takes considerably longer than it does on anything softer, then replace them with the same thing.