Men's Business Pants Professional & University Graduate University Etiquette Men's Business Dress

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1. For work inside, men's business pants are to be long dress-pants with cuffs.

2. Pants can be made of pure wool: At the high end, they are to be made of Super X00s: luxurious Merino fibers spun into extra fine yarn. The wool can be a Gabardine: a dressy worsted fabric with a rib or subtle twill. It may be tropical wool: a plain weave fabric ideal for warm weather. It could be a wool blend: a crepe: a lightweight fabric, often blended with another to retard wrinkles, a flannel, a brushed wool, more loosely woven than a gabardine, with a napped surface which could also be blended.

3. Pants can be made of a silk blend, cotton, or a cotton blend. They are to have a constructed waistband: canvas sewn between the outer layer and the cotton lined waistband.

4. Pockets are to be made of cotton.

5. Legs may be lined: in front only (usually free) or half down and all around (called full,) for a nominal fee. It allows them to hang more smoothly.

6. A (real) crotch piece is to be sewn between the fly and the seat. 

7. Buttons for braces: two in each front side and two in the back, and a button inside that buttons a flap to the inside of pants are to be present.

8. Ideally, pants are to be flat without a pleat. When present, pleats are to be inverted (upside down) V shaped, reverse, double, single, and/or box, and full enough to lie flat.

9. Know your pants size. From a Tailor, get a copy of your measurements: your waist size, your rise: the measurement from you crotch to your waistband, and your inseam: the measurement from your crotch to your cuff.

10. When buying pants take with you the shoes (and the belt) that will be worn with them.

11. Business pants are to be worn at the waist, level with the top of the hip, an inch above the navel. Have pants altered so when worn there is only one minimal break in each leg, and so that each leg covers 3/4 the length of each shoe: (so your socks are not seen as you walk.) Give your pants a break. Avoid letting a break turn into an overlap and you into someone special.

12. Even when you are not a "Suit" wear pants which have a cuff. Cuffs are to be from 1 1/2 inch to 1 3/4 inches in width.

Have someone take a picture of your pant legs from the back while you are wearing your pants and are walking. High water pants that let someone see your socks are to be lowered. Pocket bulges are to be identified and corrected. See how much you have grown.

Socially pants may be worn below the top of the hip. Deviations are to be no more than an inch. Unless you – no, even if you, have really nice underpants, no one is to see them or be so drawn so to your derriere.

“Dress in layers,” refers to the upper body. Clothes, then holes, and then underpants, does not an attractive a statement make. I am told the person most interested in looking at this layered set is someone named Bubba.

13. Button the interior button found. Button any back button always. Keep any back pocket empty.

14. Avoid pulling pants legs up when you sit down.

The first pants to be acquired are to be

1. Black. You can get two. Avoid wearing the same pair two days in a row – when you can.

2. You can get a pair that is very dark blue. Each can be worn to a cocktail party, a church service, a wedding, or to an interview.

The next may be

3. Navy blue to be worn with a navy blue blazer.

4. Solid Charcoal gray which can be worn with a black or navy blue blazer. Leave light gray pants for those who work security. You may acquire a more specialized pair of pants, every month, until your collection is complete.

5. Casual pants may to be made of covert wool: sturdy wool that is casual. They can be made of cotton, corduroy (cord du roi): the cloth of kings. Wider Wales are to be worn with dressier clothing. Pants may be made of cotton with a cuff. Each could be made without a cuff, but why?

6. In some businesses casually, Denim is the number one fabric of choice. The older the denim the better it is thought to be; the more unique the more expensive.

Denim is better in black. It is not to be creased or cuffed; there are at least two groups that do this. Nor is it to have a break on top of each shoe (old school.) A brake in it can brush the middle of a shoe (especially in business day.)

A zipper can be split and sewed at the back bottom of each leg. This has been done (unseen) in other countries. It preserves the leg length.

Denim pants can be worn with a dress shirt, Polo, or T-shirt and could be matched with a cashmere sweater. Unless a condition of employment, Denim is not to be worn with a tie.

7. Casually, short pants may be worn when you have great legs, play a sport, work for UPS, deliver mail, or drive a bus. But unless you do, in most cases this is not a must.