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[~50's] French Vintage Black Chambray Work Pants "Dead Stock"

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[~50's] French Vintage Black Chambray Work Pants "Dead Stock"

Name: [~50's] French Vintage Black Chambray Work Pants "Dead Stock"
Brand: VIEUX ET NOUVEAU
SKU: B0349
Price: 69800 JPY
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A pair of black chambray work trousers, made in France, which we date to around the 1950s.

And these are dead stock.
Tailored seventy years ago and, in all likelihood, never once worn before reaching us today.

The time they ought to have been worn comes back to the palm of your hand as the stiffness of the cloth itself.
Dead stock has that curious quality about it.

Now, let us look at the details.

What catches the eye first is the single pleat at the waist.

Work trousers of this period ordinarily strip away everything unnecessary, as befits clothing for labour. A luxury like a pleat is not usually admitted.
And yet here one is, properly folded. It gives room around the hips, and though these are work trousers, they take on a fall closer to that of dress trousers.

The front is a button fly.
The four buttons in line are metal, finished in black lacquer.

My impression is that lacquered buttons of this kind appear up to about the 1950s, which is one of the clues to the dating.

A small coin pocket sits at the right of the waist.
At the back are welted pockets on both sides — welting being a finish that binds and reinforces the pocket mouth with a narrow strip of cloth.

Inside the waistband is a pale blue herringbone cotton.
Against the dark tone outside, this cool blue that appears only when opened is exactly right.

Belt loops are fitted, with a hook-and-bar closure besides.

The silhouette is a straight cut, not overly wide.
From thigh to hem it falls gently, but with certainty.

The material is 100% cotton, in black chambray.

Chambray is a plain weave using different colours for warp and weft.
Here a black warp crosses a white weft, so from a distance it reads as grey, and up close as a salt-and-pepper marl.

It returns light quite differently from a solid colour, with a distinctive depth, as though fine particles were suspended on the surface of the cloth.

And the hand. Being dead stock, it is still stiff.
A body with the dressing seemingly still in it, to which the word rugged applies. Creases hold their corners, and the cloth stands on its own.

The real business, I think, begins here.
The more they are worn, the more the fibres loosen and your own shape settles at the knees and hips. The new state is not the finished state. If anything, this is where it starts.
The time spent breaking down this stiffness with your own hands is surely where the greatest value of this pair lies.

The colour is "charcoal grey".

Not a pure black; the white weft pulls the depth a degree towards grey.

That ambiguity makes them genuinely easy to use.
They do not assert themselves as strongly as black, nor turn as light as grey. Whatever colour you bring above them, they will not quarrel with it, and will quietly anchor the lower half.

The blue inside the waistband is the only colour in the whole pair.
A modest accent, placed where it can be seen only as you dress and undress.

The appeal of this pair lies, without question, in their versatility.

Take them towards the refined with a white shirt and loafers, or down to something rugged with a knit and boots. They work with nothing more than a sweatshirt.
For all their origins as work trousers, the silhouette and condition let them settle readily into elegant dress as well.

For someone who lives mostly in dress trousers and wants to bring one vintage pair into that world — there are few pieces so well suited to the occasion.
Not the sort to take the lead, but a fine supporting player. And it is in supporting roles that differences in quality show.

There is no size marking, but I should say they correspond to roughly a Japanese "M".

The rise is cut deep, so worn, you should feel more room around the hips than the numbers suggest. With the single pleat working too, there is no tightness.

These are dead stock, but having been stored for some seventy years, faint marks or small flaws arising from storage may be present.
We ask for your understanding on this point in advance.

French work trousers in black chambray are, in themselves, something one has limited chances of meeting on the market. Narrow that to dead stock and the conditions grow tighter still.

Dead stock vintage carries a particular tension.
For seventy years, nobody wore them. Standing before that fact, one finds oneself thinking a little about how to spend the first day.

But clothes are made to be worn.
This stiff cloth will learn the shape of your knees. I should like to hand them to someone willing to take on what comes next.

SIZE INFORMATION

　
MEASUREMENT
表記：　-
全長：　107 cm
ウエスト：　84 cm
股上：　33.5 cm
股下：　76.5 cm
ヒップ幅：　52 cm
腿幅：　30.5 cm
裾幅：　22.5 cm

Notation：　-
Total Length：　107 cm
Waist：　84 cm
Rise：　33.5 cm
Inseam：　76.5 cm
Hip Width：　52 cm
Thickness of Thigh：　30.5 cm
Hem Width：　22.5 cm

※ Measured laid flat.
※ Slight variations are to be expected.
　

FITTING MODEL

165cm / 50kg
　

SIZE GUIDE

Please refer to the following for measurement points.

JAPANESE
ENGLISH

CONDITION

DEAD STOCK

《長期保管による汚れ・傷がある場合があります。》

《There may be dirt and scratches due to long-term storage.》

OTHER DETAIL

RARITY:　3.5
TIME (Era):　〜1950'S
COUNTRY:　FRANCE
BRAND:　WORKWEAR
CATEGORY:　BOTTOMS
COLOR:　GRAY
SIZE FEEL:　M
SIZE:　7
MATERIAL:　
WEIGHT:　

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