Black Wabash Work Trousers - Black
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Description
The Black Wabash Work Trousers are a fantastic wide leg trouser from The Real McCoy's, with a relaxed fit and 1930s details. Cut with a nice comfortable high rise, they've got a classic five pocket configuration, with roomy straight legs and a buckleback for easy size adjustments. By our assessment, these are a super classic workwear fit, with a comfortable true-to-size waist and plenty of room through the legs.
Wabash print fabrics, popularized by the J.L. Stifel and Sons company in the early 20th century, are workwear stalwarts despite only about 30 years of total production. The design is produced through a form of discharge-printing, where dye is removed from specific areas to produce a desired pattern — in the case of colloquial "wabash," that specific pattern is vertical pinstripes made up of closely-set dots.
The vast majority of wabash fabrics produced used an indigo base, but examples of black wabash did exist. Achieving the color through a sulfur-based dye rather than the classic indigo, these black wabash fabrics appeared some time around the 1930s when demand for indigo workwear textiles was declining. This specific custom black wabash is woven from 100% cotton yarns, and has been painstakingly reproduced based on small original samples McCoy's have in their archives. These original samples are extremely rare, and their history is incomplete and somewhat unknown, making for a highly unique but still historically-faithful new wabash fabric.
They have a few other details worth mentioning: a two prong buckle that holds the rear buckle together, a 4-button fly, and metal suspender buttons around the outside of the waistband, giving you yet a third way to hold these pants up. The metal buttons are all completely custom, reproductions of 1930s "Economy Buttons," a mark of quality, as only capable makers would be able to produce buttons with such thin tops and curved stems.
Fits true to size. Wash cold and hang dry.
- 100% cotton
- Custom black sulfur-dyed wabash fabric
- 100% cotton thread
- Custom metal "Economy Buttons"
- Buckleback with two-prong metal button
- High rise
- Wide straight leg fit
- Relaxed top block
- Five pocket configuration
- Suspender buttons
- Button fly
- Custom woven 8 Hour Union label
- Fits true to size
- Wash cold and hang dry
- Made in Japan
- MP26011
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Size Guide
| Size | Waist | Front Rise | Back Rise | Upper Thigh | Knee | Leg Opening | Inseam |
| 28 | 32" | 13" | 16.50" | 12.75" | 10.50" | 9.25" | 30.50" |
| 30 | 34" | 13.50" | 17" | 13.50" | 11" | 9.75" | 31.25" |
| 32 | 35" | 14" | 17.50" | 14" | 11.50" | 10" | 32" |
| 34 | 37" | 14.50" | 18" | 14.50" | 12" | 10" | 32.50" |
| 36 | 40" | 15" | 18.50" | 15" | 13" | 10.75" | 34" |
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