When Saturdays NYC hit the menswear scene in 2009, it arrived like a zephyr on a sweltering beach: effortlessly cool printed tee-shirts, board shorts, and other surfer-chic wares riding the crest of ...

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 ...

Up until the 1990’s, finding pants that weren’t pleated was difficult. The once-dapper pleats combined form and function, adding a crisp crease to the pant and allowing room for men to move without ...

A: Pleated pants, a fashion staple for both sexes in the 1980s, went out of style in the late 1990s as fashion silhouettes shifted to sleek and narrow and flat-front pants became the rage.

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.

Q Are pleats in fashion? I have a couple pairs that seemed to be out of style in recent years, so they stayed in my closet. But now I am seeing colleagues wearing pleats again. A The simple answer is ...

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 ...