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Games Trousers
About Drake's pants: Drake's trousers run from cotton fatigue and drawstring styles around $450 to Italian-made single-pleat wool trousers near $1,100, with the workwear-informed Games series as the signature cut. The line trades on cloth, rotating corduroy, linen, seersucker and tweed through the seasons.
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The Games Trousers are Drake's workwear-informed trouser line: made in Italy with a high rise, single pleats, a full leg and a gentle taper below the knee, plus side adjusters alongside belt loops. They come in seasonal cloths — corduroy, seersucker, linen, canvas, tweed — as the bottom half of the Games suit, though owners wear them as often on their own. Reviewers call the cloth selection the range's biggest strength; caveats include a rise that has drifted lower over iterations and sizing that runs smaller than the published chart.
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- Material
- Cloth rotates by season — the corduroy version is a hearty 8-wale cotton corduroy woven in Yorkshire — and every version is made in Italy.
- Fit
- High rise that sits just above the hip, single pleat, full leg with a gentle taper below the knee. Owners report they measure smaller than the published size chart and commonly advise sizing up, and one long-running reviewer found recent iterations slightly lower in the rise than earlier ones.
- Quality
- Construction is Italian, and an independent side-by-side of high-end ready-to-wear trousers placed Drake's make at that level: neat, precise machine sewing, good-quality hardware and small points of reinforcement.
- Best for
- Best for someone who wants a high-rise, tailored-casual trouser to wear with knitwear or an unstructured jacket rather than as office suiting.
- Care
- Care depends on the cloth — dry-clean the wool and tweed versions, and give any of them a light press to keep the single pleat and crease in shape.
How Drake's pants hold up overall
Reviewers describe Drake's trousers as cleanly made in Italy, with neat machine sewing, good hardware and small reinforcement points — a step above high-street make, though only marginally different from comparable trousers at the price. Fit is the recurring topic: rises run high and the cuts differ substantially between styles, with the wider high-waisted models sitting so far up that some owners only wear them with knitwear over the top or find them hard to wear with a tucked-in shirt. Forum owners lean on the side adjusters to dial in the waist, and note the range of fabrics and colours rotates often, so a favourite cloth may not come back.
- Strengths
- Tidy, well-finished Italian construction and characterful fabrics that reviewers rate clearly above high-street make.
- Watch out for
- Style-to-style fit swings are large — the very high-rise wide cuts divide owners — and the fast-rotating range means specific fabrics and colours disappear.
- Sizing
- Rises are high across the range and the wider Games-style cuts fit very differently from the flat-front chinos, so check each style's own measurements and expect to use the side adjusters for waist leeway.
About Drake's's pants line as a whole. Sources: Three RTW trousers compared — Permanent Style · The unofficial Drake's London Appreciation Thread (page 758) — Styleforum
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