How wide do you like your leg opening on dress trousers?

[dieworkwear]

Also nine. Because neck-bearded incel millenials know a lot about craft beer, and dick about style.

Neckbeards are the kind of people who would wear a 9" leg opening though and complain about how millenials know a lot about craft beer, but dick about style

 

[SirGrotius]

7 or 7.5. I wear 28 trousers so it seems to flow better.

 

[Waldo Jeffers]

Wider than I liked them a year ago

I suppose there is no end to this

 

[circumspice]

The trousers on the suit I recently received from B&Tailor are around 7.75, but I voted 7.5 as I think my stuff clusters closer there than 8 - Epaulet Walts in 34 seem to end up around 7.75 at a 30-31ish inseam (I didn't measure that). A couple Formosas with 48R pants end up at ~7.75ish from my alternations guy, or 8 as tapered per MTO straight from Formosa. I have a couple pair of summer Boglioli trousers that are probably closer to 7 - those are worn exclusively with unstructured jackets if with a jacket at all. I am a 33.5-34 inch waist.

I have a UK 10 foot, but I don't want lots of fabric flapping around.

 

[SirGrotius]

Ha, not sure if you're referencing advancing age or the style of boyfriend jeans and now becoming flared. Not sure if we'll get to bell bottom territory, but flowing seems to be the idea or at least comfortable.

 

[An Acute Style]

I have a wide variety of leg openings on my trousers (pun intended). They range from 7.5” to 10”. I’m wearing the above suit trousers tomorrow. For slim, flat front trousers, I prefer 7.5 to 8.5. For more relaxed, pleated trousers, I prefer 8 to 9.5.

I think it may be helpful to post some pictures of these different leg openings as well. It sounds very philosophical without pictures. Granted, seeing me in a 9.5” in opening may make someone believe that I look good or terrible. It may not translate to them personally. I think it’s difficult to tell how wide a leg opening is from a photo of someone.

Anyway, I’ll try to post my suit tomorrow.

 

[Daniel Hakimi]

One thing this depends on that people don't talk about is... It depends on drape. Wider fits can look cool, but not with, like, chino, or cheap wool trousers that are just going to collapse or something.

 

[bdavro23]

I was wondering how Alan Bee wasnt ALL OVER this thread, until I realized the chart topped out at 10.5"

 

[Alan Bee]

I was wondering how Alan Bee wasnt ALL OVER this thread, until I realized the chart topped out at 10.5"

@bdavro23

They say a picture (or few) is worth a thousand words.

Alan Bee

 

[An Acute Style]

@bdavro23

They say a picture (or few) is worth a thousand words.

Alan Bee
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Share the data please.

 

[zr3rs]

Some data

Leg 20cm Knee 24,5 cm

Leg 20cm Knee 27,5cm (this is my bespoke pattern because of my biker's thighs)
- could probably go to 21 cm in the future

Leg 19 cm Knee 25 cm (an older tapered pattern)

Leg 20 cm Knee 25,5 cm

 

[zr3rs]

Forgot: I am a regular 52 in trousers and UK 8 in shoes.

 

[An Acute Style]

As promised. 30” waist, 38 jacket, 10.5 us shoe, 5’9” tall, 9.75” leg opening here. Not my go to, but I like it. I need to lengthen the sleeves on the jacket. I’ve thought a lot about slimming the pants and am leaning against it at the moment.

 

[Hellbent]

I’m around 20 cm / 8 inches for most of my trousers. I wear them with no/slight break. I wouldn’t want them much wider since the current width works well with the length of of my jackets. (Wider trousers with same break => Longer trousers => Longer jackets)

 

[Sammm]

I do 7.75" or 8" on odd trousers. Waist is 30 and shoe size US 9.

I go a little wider for suits, but I haven't ordered a proper suit in such a long time, I'm not sure what I ask for on those. Casual suit trousers I treat like odd trousers.

Based on your Twitter posts, I thought you were into wide trousers these days?