Corporate pants, half balloon shape, wide at the thighs and narrowed at the ankles, come from a need for ease and functionality. This “low waist” version can be worn with a belt or with clipped suspenders. The moleskin canvas ensures comfort and resistance. It will take on a beautiful patina over time. French manufacturing (Digoin, Burgundy).
Heavy Moleskine 420 g/m² - 67% cotton and 33% polyester • 100% cotton pocket lining • Half balloon shape • 2 inseam lengths 76 cm and 82 cm • Wide belt (5cm) with 5 loops • Button fly with hook riveted steel • Triple stitched crotch • 2 Italian pockets on the front • 1 coin pocket • 1 piped ruler pocket on right leg • 1 piped and buttoned back pocket • Washable at 40° • Machine dry at 60° • No bleach • Ironing 150°max • Dry cleaning allowed • Made in Tunisia
HISTORY OF “LARGEOT” PANTS:
The wideot, iconic pants which saw the light of day in 1896 under the scissors of the Lyon tailor Adolphe Lafont who made them for his carpenter father-in-law. ...+
The balloon or half-balloon shape, narrowed at the ankles, was intended to be ample and easy to facilitate movement on roofs or during structural work. It was worn high, a tightening tab allowed you to hang a hammer, a piped pocket on the right leg accommodated a folding rule, gauge and pencil, finally a gusset pocket for a watch, chalk or possibly a clove of garlic for THE
Insect bites. Initially designed in a heavy, coarse ribbed velvet, or even in a shaved velvet called “mole skin”, ancestor of the current moleskin, never washed but only beaten and brushed, it was frequently said that “the wider the breeches, the stronger the man.” Still worn today by craftsmen and by the Compagnons du Devoir of the Tour de France for whom the colors correspond to codes specific to their profession: carpenters and roofers wear black, stonemasons and sculptors ecru, cabinetmakers brown , carpenters in hazelnut, masons and carpenters in marine blue. There are two shapes, with pulls with straps, with belt loops, and in three qualities of fabric, velvet, moleskin and a linen/cotton mix for sunny days.
As at the beginning of the 20th century, these pants do not appeal exclusively to a professional clientele, leaving indifferent a private clientele sensitive to its finest assets: beautiful workmanship, authenticity, durability and timelessness.
HISTORY OF MOLESKINE:
Moleskin is to Europe what denim is to the United States. This very dense and tight cotton weave, similar to satin, evokes leather because of the finish that covers it. ...+
The origin of the word comes from the English term “mole skin” which literally means “mole skin” in reference to the feel of the material. For its protective quality it became the key material for work clothing which originally equipped workers in the steelworks of Sheffield in England. Across the Channel it becomes the “warmth blue” of our mechanics and steam locomotive drivers. Nowadays it is in this robust canvas that the corporate clothing of the Compagnons du Devoir is made. For the latter there are color codes by profession: ecru for stonemasons, black for carpenters and roofers, blue for masons or marine carpenters. Resistant, beautiful to wear, its fabric adapts to you and becomes like a second skin after a few wears.
