A letter from a reader
At 58, you don't expect a pair of trousers to take ten years off you
Saturday. Lunch with the lads, first time in months. You get dressed without thinking about it, because you haven't thought about getting dressed in a long time.
Then you pass the mirror in the hall, and you stop.
It isn't your face. Your face is fine. It's the trousers. Shapeless at the knee, gone at the seat, a colour that used to be a colour. They have been quietly ageing for about four years and you have been wearing them the whole way through it.
You're not early enough to change. You go anyway.
Then you notice his
Halfway through lunch you clock the trousers on the bloke opposite. Wide, soft-looking, some sort of texture to them. Not smart exactly. But not slouchy either.
And he looks about ten years younger than he did the last time you saw him, which is irritating, because it is obviously the trousers.
So you ask. He says James Oxford — the Casual Trousers with Adjustable Waist, £29.95. He says he has them in three colours now and has more or less stopped wearing anything else.
That evening you have a look
There are more than you expect, and they are not all the same idea. One end of the range you would wear out to dinner. The other end you would wear on the sofa. Nothing in between you'd be embarrassed to answer the door in.
You order three, because three takes 15% off the lot.
See the collectionThe first is the smart end: the corduroy, £34.95. Wide wale, the sort that catches light along the ridges, for the days something is actually happening.
The second is the opposite end, and the one you're quietly unsure about until you put them on. The Waffle Corduroy Joggers, £34.95, soft as anything, with a cream stripe down the outer leg.
The third you add on instinct. Leon, the patterned pair, £34.95 — because after four years of one dying pair you have earned something with a bit of character in it.
The old pair is still in the wardrobe
You haven't worn them since.
These aren't hundred-pound trousers and we won't pretend otherwise. What you're paying for is the part that decides whether a pair actually gets worn: a waist that gives without showing it, cloth that hangs instead of clinging, and a leg cut for a man who isn't twenty-four.
Two items take 10% off. Three take 15%.
See the full rangeOn sizing. It's the most common thing that goes wrong buying clothes online. Every product page has a size guide with the measurements for that exact pair — worth a look before you choose. And you have thirty days to send anything back for your money returned, with no form to argue with.
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