What are you obsessed about lately?
Me?
My J. Crew Officers Chinos from 2009. I have 3 pairs: olive, khaki, and white. I bought them for the full retail price of about 80 bucks each after trying them on in the store. I tried them on and thought they were the cat's meow. I still do, even though they are faded and frayed and beat up.
They are full cut and high-waisted, at least by contemporary standards (they don't quite come up to the belly button). I remember standing in front of the mirror and thinking, Yeah, this is what a pair of rugged chinos is supposed to look like!
They have a button fly, like a pair of Levi's 501s, but plastic buttons. I remember they were advertised as chinos for guys who like to wear their chinos like jeans, or something like that.
The material is thick. Tough.
I bought them a little long, and hence have rolled them up a little. And that's the way they were shown in the J. Crew ads back then. You rolled your hem a bit. I rolled my hem on these a bit. I still do.
I almost threw them out last summer. I had lost weight since 2009. They were about an inch big in the waist. My belt was cinching the material in back. My tailor took them in 3/4 inch and now they are just right. They are probably not "cool" or contemporary. Myself, I wear much slimmer and shorter chinos now, too. But these... there is just something so... right... about these Officer's Chinos.
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Originally Posted by Duvel
