Flat Front...Cuffs?

[jjgold]

I am thinking I may get a nice chalk stripe suit made. I have a couple suits with flat front (no pleats). I did get them cuffed. It seems everything I see and read says NO cuffs with flat front pants. What is the opinion? I did not think the ones I have to be any fashion mistake.

thanks

 

[itsstillmatt]

Everything that you are reading is wrong. Cuffs are fine on flat fronts. 80% of my pants are this way.

 

[kronik]

Most people here adhere to the pleated/cuffs, flat front/no cuffs methodology.

I don't think going cuffed/flat is necessarily a faux pas (I could be wrong) - wear your pants in whatever fashion they look best to you.

 

[Teacher]

I don't think it's wrong, but I'm generally not a fan of the look. To me, it looks a bit out of balance. Perhaps with fairly generously cut trousers it would work for me.

 

[Stu]

Originally Posted by Fran

The flat front look without cuffs is totally weak. It is for slick guys and poseurs.

That's kind of harsh. It's a question of personal preference IMO. I personally prefer no cuffs on mine, but as my custom wardrobe expands, I'm going to add a few in for variety.

 

[Vintage Gent]

I've been gravitating a bit more toward flat front trousers of late (although the majority are still pleated). Pleats or not, though, I go for fairly generous cuffs (1.75&quot.

 

[Teacher]

Originally Posted by Fran

The flat front look without cuffs is totally weak. It is for slick guys and poseurs.

Flat fronts with a nice cuff is favored by many groups of the best dressed men including lots of Italians and the brothers of the Trad.

Uhhh...okay, bud. Whatever you say.

 

[william]

Originally Posted by Fran

The flat front look without cuffs is totally weak. It is for slick guys and poseurs.

Flat fronts with a nice cuff is favored by many groups of the best dressed men including lots of Italians and the brothers of the Trad.

 

[The_Foxx]

hmmm.....well, if the flat front trousers are part of a slimmer cut, narrower-lapel suit, I vote for very little break in the trousers and no cuffs. That's how i had my latest suit done, an oxxford radcliff-- and the same for the tan ff trouser suit i bought by isaia (the three button jacket has slimmer lapels on that particular model, as well). i guess i was going for something along the lines of connery-bond, and cuffs didn't seem right.

i guess i adhere to the traditional cuffs with pleated suit trousers (which i always wear on the natural waist with braces), flat front suit trousers (worn on the hips with a belt), no cuffs. i started phasing out my pleated dress slacks for flat fronts, as i think this guideline works for me across the board.

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by Teacher

Uhhh...okay, bud. Whatever you say.
Well, I think that he comes off like a bit of a schmuck, and I have no opinions on what others look like with flat fronts and plain bottoms, but I do agree that plain fronts look very good with cuffs. I think that the ff/plain cuffs rule is some sort of message board construct that has not history in real life or grounding in any reason. It seems to be a situation looking for a rule.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

FF with 2" cuffs, unless they're very casual khaki's.

 

[rox]

FWIW, when I suggested FF/pleats to my tailor, she looked at me like I was crazy.

 

[DocHolliday]

Originally Posted by rox

FWIW, when I suggested FF/pleats to my tailor, she looked at me like I was crazy.

One side FF, the other side pleats?

 

[lawyerdad]

Originally Posted by Fran

The flat front look without cuffs is totally weak. It is for slick guys and poseurs.

Flat fronts with a nice cuff is favored by many groups of the best dressed men including lots of Italians and the brothers of the Trad.
Stu's comment is overly diplomatic. That's an idiotic comment.

 

[lawyerdad]

Originally Posted by Fran

Sorry if what I said was too strong. I just think that it makes no sense at all to have this position about the compatibility of cuffs and pleats. If taken further, you would say that french cuffs and plain bottom pants are incongruous because one is minimal and the other is more expressive. Hogwash indeed to me.

My comment about poseurs was perhaps unfortunate, but I think that the slick guys one must stand. It is a slick guy look to me.
Personally, I generally prefer cuffs regardless of whether my trousers are pleated or ff. But it seems to me that your objections isn't so much to the ff-no cuffs linkage, but to pants without cuffs across the board. Unless you're an advocate of pleats + no cuffs, which I don't understand to be the case.
My personal preference notwithstanding, I think it's pretty clear that no cuffs = slick is an overgeneralization. Here are a couple of characteristically excellent examples from the sartorialist's blog:
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