Are Chinos Fashionable in the UK?

[Chouan]

I do, so they must be.

 

[comrade]

Ever since this, chinos have been less popular in the UK:

http://www.prisonersofeternity.co.uk/the-fall-of-singapore-and-the-end-of-empire/
Note the fabric of the British uniforms.

 

[Chouan]

I wear looser fitting, pleated chinos for work in the summer, and closer fitting chinos in more casual circumstances. For example:

 

[Caustic Man]

as long as you wear what you wear with confidence and style its all good in my book.

Not to distract this thread too much, but I disagree very much with the pluralist outlook. I think that today many people believe you can wear anything as long as you feel good doing it. This outlook centers clothing on the self, rather than on the community. Clothing has always been a communal thing. We should recognize That a great deal of dressing wwell is understanding context and appropriateness.

It seems to me that a great deal of the people who look toolish in this world are people who insist on being different rather than being deferent. More humility is warranted, along with a sense that the self alone is not to arbiter of good taste.

 

[Chouan]

Ever since this, chinos have been less popular in the UK:

http://www.prisonersofeternity.co.uk/the-fall-of-singapore-and-the-end-of-empire/
Note the fabric of the British uniforms.

Relevance? Khaki drill is not the same as the fabric of chinos. These are more like chinos:

 

[Chouan]

can you wear white shirts in the UK?

Only when I want to.

 

[Viral]

Only when I want to.

amazing!!

Can you comb your hair in the UK?

 

[Chouan]

amazing!!

Can you comb your hair in the UK?

Me? No.

 

[Chouan]

the Queen does not approve of chinos - she will raise your taxes

Constitutional misapprehension, I'm afraid.

 

[comrade]

Relevance? Khaki drill is not the same as the fabric of chinos. These are more like chinos:

Relevance? Khaki drill is not the same as the fabric of chinos. These are more like chinos:

Relevance? Khaki drill is not the same as the fabric of chinos. These are more like chinos:

Relevance? Khaki drill is not the same as the fabric of chinos. These are more like chinos:

 

[comrade]

Those are US troops surrendering in the Philippines in 1942.
This trauma does not seem to have affected the wearing of Chinos
or Khaki Drill in the US.

Sorry for the multiple photos.

 

[Chouan]

Those are US troops surrendering in the Philippines in 1942.
This trauma does not seem to have affected the wearing of Chinos
or Khaki Drill in the US.

Sorry for the multiple photos.

Neither did the surrender at Singapore affect the wearing of Chinos in the UK. Much of the US, I've been led to understand, tends to be a lot warmer than the UK, and for a lot longer of the year, especially in the states that share the same latitude as North Africa, so my understanding is that the wearing of chinos and khaki was always popular in the US. They'd never been a popular "thing" in the UK even when we still had an empire, indeed, quasi military dress has never been popular in the UK.

 

[Emivenc]

Tbh chinos are prob most sold form of trousers out there in uk market

 

[Caustic Man]

quasi military dress has never been popular in the UK.

Really? I find that hard to believe with the popularity of the duffel coat, the commando sweater, the mess jacket, etc.

 

[Ich_Dien]

The British Warm, the trench...