Engineered Garments Andover Pant – Olive

Corduroy is one of the few woven fabrics with a third dimension. It is made by weaving extra weft floats into the ground and then slitting them open and brushing them up, so the ridges, called wales, are standing tufts of cut fibre rather than anything printed or embossed. That is why corduroy catches light along the length of the wale and goes dark across it, and why a corduroy trouser changes colour as the leg moves. It is also why it is warm: standing pile traps air the way a napped cloth does, which is what made cord a winter trouser long before anyone thought about it as a look.

Cut on the Andover, which is the model this house uses for its tailored work, olive corduroy makes a trouser that is dressed without being formal. That is a narrow and useful register and there is not much in it.

A cord trouser in a real colour rather than a beige one, cut on a tailored block rather than a workwear one. Both halves are less common than they should be.

One hundred percent cotton corduroy, made in the USA. Colour: Olive.

Cotton corduroy has some give and relaxes at the knee across a day of wearing, then comes back in the wash. The pile makes the cloth read slightly fuller on the leg than a flat cotton of the same weight.

With the Bedford Jacket in black moleskin and a plain crewneck. With the Work Shirt in natural and nothing over it. Olive cord against natural cotton is the pairing that does the most work.

Wash cool and inside out, and brush the pile in one direction when it dries. Keep it out of a hot dryer, which crushes a pile and does not give it back. Our cotton care guidance covers the rest.

The FA Pant in olive corduroy is the cargo trouser in the same cord and colour, and the STK Pant in navy corduroy is the cropped one. The Andover Jacket in tropical wool is the jacket on this model, and the Bedford Jacket in black moleskin the one that goes with everything. Everything we carry from Engineered Garments is listed together.