Item 2018.216.3 - Pierre Cardin for John Temple Trousers

2018.216.3

Pierre Cardin for John Temple Trousers

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Flat front slim leg trouser made from Tonik by Dormeuil, a three-ply mohair suiting fabric. The trousers fasten with a zip fly and an extended hook and bar tab at the waistband. They feature slanted front pockets and a single jetted back pocket on the right that is secured with a button and loop. The waistband features an adjustable channel that can be altered with a silver clasp that runs along a plastic track. The waistband is lined with cream nylon, the same fabric used for the pocket bags with matching cream binding finishing the seat. There is a small turn up on the trouser hems.
Country of Design: England
Country of Manufacture: England

Tonik by Dormeuil mohair
Colour/Print: brown
Details: adjustable tab, channel, mohair
Label: No label

In 1965 Pierre Cardin signed a design deal with Associated Tailors, the owners of the John Temple and Neville Reed tailoring multiples. Nik Cohn, Today There are No Gentlemen: the changes in Englishmen's clothes since the war, (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971), pp. 76-77.