# What is your favorite brand of upscale khaki pants? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 28, 2005, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-brand-of-upscale-khaki-pants/323829 "2005-09-28T12:18:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-brand-of-upscale-khaki-pants/323829/1 "2005-09-28T12:18:26Z")
I am looking for a NICE pair of khaki’s. I have a few pairs of Bill’s Khaki’s and love them. I have paid between $60 and $135 a pair for them. Anyone wanna suggest another nice pair I can check out? I am a guy BTW… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-brand-of-upscale-khaki-pants/323829/2 "2005-09-28T13:08:08Z")
Ralph Lauren a.k.a. “Polo” makes _great_ khakis in that price range. I’ve got several pair that have lasted years. I don’t dry clean khakis, so they take some abuse going through the wash, but I still get 2 - 3 years of “office-wear” out of Polo trousers. Then they get demoted to casual/golf trousers. ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-brand-of-upscale-khaki-pants/323829/3 "2005-09-28T13:11:05Z")
> [@Winston Smith](#): > > Ralph Lauren a.k.a. “Polo” makes _great_ khakis in that price range. I’ve got several pair that have lasted years. I don’t dry clean khakis, so they take some abuse going through the wash, but I still get 2 - 3 years of “office-wear” out of Polo trousers. Then they get demoted to casual/golf trousers. Are they the Purple Label Ralph Laurens? Or some other Polo label? ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-brand-of-upscale-khaki-pants/323829/4 "2005-09-28T13:17:57Z")
My husband really likes Banana Republic’s chinos; _extremely_ affordable and they look nice. Sometimes he checks out J. Crew’s selection, but they might be a little to casual for your needs. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-brand-of-upscale-khaki-pants/323829/5 "2005-09-28T13:44:29Z")
> [@newcrasher](#): > > Are they the Purple Label Ralph Laurens? Or some other Polo label? Polo lable ‘Phillip Pant’ or ‘Andrew Pant’ (they actually call them chinos, but I think it’s all basically the same, yeah? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-brand-of-upscale-khaki-pants/323829/6 "2005-09-28T13:57:43Z")
> [@UrbanChic](#): > > My husband really likes Banana Republic’s chinos; _extremely_ affordable and they look nice. Sometimes he checks out J. Crew’s selection, but they might be a little to casual for your needs. Brooks Bros., Jos. A. Bank, Lands’ End, and L.L. Bean all do very traditional, extra-fabric-in-the-waist, dry-clean-and-press “Sunday” khakis. Wear 'em for good until the first grease stain, then demote them to wash pants. For a _very_ traditional look, you might try a military reenactor house like [url=http://www.wwiiimpressions.com/]WWII Impressions\*. Expect a button fly, plain fronts and elephant legs. Probably not for the office, unless your shirt laundry will starch pants (many will not). ---
**Author:** ![ana\_kata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea666f/32.png) [@ana\_kata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ana_kata)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-brand-of-upscale-khaki-pants/323829/7 "2005-09-28T20:32:36Z")
Dries van Noten. I’d wager you’d like some Incotex, eBay it up. Sierra or bluefly might have some too. ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-brand-of-upscale-khaki-pants/323829/8 "2005-09-29T01:42:41Z")
Lands’ End use to sell a great pair of khakis, heavy cotton fabric, French fly, sturdy zipper, flaps on the hip pockets, internal key and change pocket inside the right front pocket, sturdy belt keepers. The things were office worthy for years, even with commercial laundry and starch. Now that Sears has taken over I can’t find them in the catalog any more. I may have to go to LL Bean or, God help me, Brooks Brothers over priced, dress like an Andover boy, fake twill crap. This from a guy whose first pair of chinos had a belt in the back and whose father wore his old WWII uniform Khakis on weekends. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-brand-of-upscale-khaki-pants/323829/9 "2005-09-29T05:40:40Z")
I have a decent pair of khakis from Ermenegildo Zegna, so you might want to check out that label. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-brand-of-upscale-khaki-pants/323829/10 "2005-09-29T16:59:38Z")
I’m not really a khaki person, but I’m curious. What makes the expensive ones so much better? I’ve routinely bought expensive jeans in the price ranges mentioned, but khakis just seem to be all the same to me.