Most cotton chinos get worse with every wash. The colour goes flat, the fabric goes soft in the wrong way, and after a season they look like something you’d wear to paint a fence. The ones we’ve put together here do the opposite. These are chinos cut from cotton that develops with wear, takes on a bit of character, and still looks like an actual choice rather than a default. We’ve been paying attention to the weight of the cloth, the construction of the waistband, and crucially the fit through the thigh, because that’s where most chinos go wrong before anything else does. We like them in mid tones and natural shades that age well and sit easily with trainers, leather shoes, and everything in between. Nothing in here is trying to be denim and nothing is pretending to be tailoring. These are working trousers in the best possible sense, and they reward the wearing.