Many trends have made an unexpected comeback, and like a bad sequel to a bad movie, many of them are just as bad as they were the first time. But pleated pants are not such a trend. Though they’ve ...

Designer Eunice Lee can still recall the moment in the mid-1990s when her bosses at DKNY’s design studio sent out this message, officially banning pleated pants from their collections. “That comment ...

After more than a decade of flat-front, slimmer-is-better propaganda, this news may come as an unexpected—and unwelcome—surprise to even the most enterprising men of style: Pleated pants are back.

Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. We may earn a commission from these links. Here’s how we test products and why you should trust us. It wasn't too long ago that pleated pants ...

Giorgio Armani, Fendi and Etro sent models in loose, tailored trousers that celeb men's stylist Jeanne Yang says can be "a very hard look to pull off unless worn simply and tailored impeccably." By ...

If you're unfamiliar with pleated pants, let me give you a brief crash course. Pleated pants are pants with vertical folds in them, starting just under the waistband and running down the front legs.

This isn’t news, of course, but nothing in the world makes sense right now—and that goes doubly for pants. Cargo pants have graduated from the frat house to your office. Track pants are now sprinting ...

Q My wife and I were just on vacation in Santa Fe for its 100th Annual Indian Market and were lucky enough to get tickets to a fashion show. Like the fashion shows you always describe from Fashion ...

The e-mails, phone calls and comments poured into work last week in response to my column on Monday. Seems as though many of you guys out there like your pleated pants just fine, thank you, despite ...