It's official. Yacht club committee types are unfashionable.

[Woodlouse]

Is anyone going to moot the difference between a pair of trousers that are faded to a washed out pink, as opposed to those that are port lateral mark/ferrari red?

 

[armchairsailor]

Quote: It's a brand statement just as a tattoo or a Manchester United strip is.

+1 Well put: it's yet another tribal mark.

 

[nigelmercier]

Red trousers = tw@t according to my boys, they find great amusement here:

http://lookatmy****ingredtrousers.blogspot.co.uk/

Oops! Link censored due to naughty word. Strange that I can write Scunthorpe.

See here: http://goo.gl/ssrLZ

 

[Lakesailor]

I have noticed this trend. Muted red trousers are moving towards the likes of Barbour jackets as an established 'toff' fashion statement.

I have a friend who has a very large house, a large farm, all kids went to public school, very well connected.He wears red trousers for his farming activities. He loved it when when we described it as "sheeping". As in "Have you been sheeping today John?"

 

[Rigger Mortice]

Slightly surprisingly, I noticed several different kinds of red or burgundy trousers among the small selection of menswear at my local Sainsburys. Then again, it was part of a sale display - perhaps nobody wanted to buy them!

I bought a pair of those. Comfortable and cheap. If they are not fashionable, all the better. I really can't be bothered with whether things are "cool" or not. An old T shirt, red trousers and a pair of battered old crocs are fine by me.