J. Press Navy & Yellow Patchwork Corduroy Pant Sz 38 (NWOT)

J. Press Navy & Yellow Patchwork Corduroy Pant Sz 38 (NWOT)Trousers run small. Recommend sizing up. Outseam: 45" Inseam: 32" Classic Fit 100% Cotton Patchwork Flat Front Unfinished Bottoms Imported (India) Go to Hell Pants a term coined by the late Tom Wolfe to describe the brightly colored (sometimes patchworked, sometimes embroidered) trousers favored by the Boston Brahmin set on vacation in places like Marthas Vineyard. These patchwork lightweight pinwale corduroys are replicas of some original Go to Hell

Trousers run small. Recommend sizing up.

Outseam: 45"

Inseam: 32"

Classic Fit

100% Cotton

Patchwork

Flat Front

Unfinished Bottoms

Imported (India)

Go-to-Hell Pants — a term coined by the late Tom Wolfe to describe the brightly colored (sometimes patchworked, sometimes embroidered) trousers favored by the Boston Brahmin set on vacation in places like Martha’s Vineyard. These patchwork lightweight pinwale corduroys are replicas of some original Go-to-Hell pants from the 1970s.

“Not only that, they had on their own tribal colors. The jackets were mostly navy blazers, and the ties were mostly striped ties or ties with little jacquard emblems on them, but the pants had a go-to-hell air: checks and plaids of the loudest possible sort, madras plaids, yellow-on-orange windowpane checks, crazy-quilt plaids, giant houndstooth checks, or else they were airmail red or taxi yellow or some other implausible go-to-hell color. They finished that off with loafers and white crew socks or no socks at all. The pants were their note of Haitian abandon ... weekends by the sea. At the same time the jackets and ties showed they had not forgotten for a moment where the power came from.“ - Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (1976)