I chose three pairs of slacks with roomy widths and cleanly falling lines so your legs won't feel stuffy on your transitional-season commute: RECTO's WIDE FIT STRAIGHT PANTS (BLACK), AMOMENTO's Men's Wool Banding Pants, Charcoal, and MOONDAL's Sleek Pintuck Slacks in Brown. All three give your thighs room to breathe, and thanks to details like pin tucks or banding, their neat shape doesn't fall apart. Office dress boundaries have become much more flexible these days, so more and more people are pairing roomy slacks like these with shirts or thin knits.
In 1930s Hollywood, women wearing pants was seen as a bizarre taboo. When actress Katharine Hepburn insisted on wearing baggy wide slacks, the movie studio even went so far as to secretly hide her pants on set to prevent her from wearing them. But Hepburn did not back down, boldly striding around the studio in her underwear until they returned her pants, and eventually the studio raised two hands in surrender and gave them back.
Thanks to that fierce spirit, comfortable pants that don't constrict remained a classic of modern formal wear. Among the three chosen now, shall we narrow them down focusing on charcoal colors, or should we curate the list again with the KRW 100,000 range or cotton slacks?
↳ Find some in the KRW 100,000 range
To match a budget in the KRW 100,000 range, I picked three pairs with distinct silhouettes and line textures: INSILENCE's smoothly falling 울 세미 플레어 팬츠 BLACK, MARGESHERWOOD's STRIPE BUTTON TROUSERS_navy with button details and linear patterns, and MOONDAL's Soft Curved Pants in Navy with gracefully curved side seams. Looking at bottom lists these days, clothes that bring out three-dimensional depth with twisted lines or distinct stripes are noticeably taking up space rather than simple straight-leg wide pants.
Among stripes, chalk stripes—blurring as if drawn lightly with chalk—became a symbol of British fashion history as they met the flannel of Henry Poole, a historic Savile Row tailor in London, and Fox Brothers, a renowned fabric mill. In 1940, Winston Churchill wearing this gray chalk stripe suit while biting on a cigar and holding a Thompson submachine gun remained an emblem of unyielding resistance. It is talked about as a charismatic outfit to this day, so much so that the clothes of that era were restored and remade for the film Darkest Hour.
Adding just a classic stripe or curved tailoring completely changes the impression of everyday casual wear in an instant. Among the three pairs chosen, shall we narrow it down to only wool materials, or should we move toward black colors or a more relaxed wide fit?
↳ Only wool materials
I chose three pairs of pants made of wool materials: INSILENCE's 울 세미 플레어 팬츠 BLACK, MARGESHERWOOD's CROPPED PANTS_charcoal, and MOONDAL's Mono Half Pants in Black. Wool not only offers distinct warmth, but depending on how the fibers are processed, it is a fabric whose drape and silhouette change completely.
In ancient Roman times, workshops called 'fullonica' were responsible for fulling, which made woolen cloth denser and sturdier. Since there was no soap back then, alkaline ammonia was used to dissolve grease from the wool, and workers trampled the wool barefoot in large tubs for hours to mat the fibers together. Murals remaining in the ruins of Pompeian fulleries still depict traces of that labor, tirelessly stomping their feet in tubs to refine dignified cloth for togas.
Even with wool crafted so sturdily, the mood it gives off differs completely depending on the length. They are all gathered here, from full lengths that calmly drape over the instep to half pants that cheerfully reveal the knees. Shall we narrow them down to only full lengths, look at only half pants, or match them to the 20 to KRW 300,000 range?
Final Selected Products
