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| (Left) Wool Tartan Trousers with Velvet Blazer and (Right) Embroidered Lilly Pulitzer Corduroy Whale Pants with Wool Crew Neck Sweater and Pearls |
GTH pants are a great way for naturally low key, more serious people to temporarily embrace bright festive colors, and a way for obnoxious people to pass themselves off as low key, serious people temporarily embracing bright colors.
These classic preppy Go-To-Hell trousers are most often paired with button-down shirts, wool crew neck sweaters, or navy blazers with festive ties, while the wool tartan trousers look particularly smart with velvet blazers (as shown above) or velvet smoking jackets. Often finished off with snaffle-bit loafers.
LOVE IT!!
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love 'em! I had a pair of kelly green critter trousers with navy sperm whales in university. They were my favourite!
ReplyDeleteI question whether Tartan trousers constitute GTH pants.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Thus I wrote GTH pants "are often seen alongside equally festive tartan trousers, always wool."
DeleteAlways fun!
ReplyDeleteA holiday must have! I am wearing through my rotation this season, as always, and loving every minute of it! Thanks so very much! Cheers!🎄
ReplyDeleteJ. Press has some lovely tartan trousers on offer this year.
ReplyDeleteCan you please provide a good source for velvet smoking jacket?
ReplyDeleteNice trousers all around. I lean in the same direction as Bud's Eye unless you are wearing your family tartan to the home of a clan that is angered with yours. I miss both Chipp and Lily Pulitzer, sources for the ultimate in GTH pants. Why dd Lily give up on menswear?
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's just me, but from the quality of their items lately, I'd say they gave up on women's wear too!
DeleteGTH pants are not just for the Christmas Holiday Season.
ReplyDeleteI guess I should amend that by saying that perhaps the corduroy ones are, but some years back I bought an electric lime green cotton pair with embroidered fly-fishing flies on it. They came from Orvis who called them their "Charleston Pants." Bold, devil-may-care, damn-the-torpedoes, and super with a blazer, white shirt and sock-less loafers. Many compliments over the years. I just wish I had more occasions to wear them.
Of course, Go-To-Hell pants are not for the faint hearted, and do require a bit of moxie. They have a definite time and place. For example, I wouldn't advise barging into a country and western bar in West Texas at 2 AM in them - unless your health insurance is top notch.
...and you all wear them well :)
ReplyDeleteFor someone like me who only wears grey flannel trousers or khaki chinos, tan corduroys--let alone tartan trousers--qualify as belonging to the GTH category.
ReplyDeleteOld Bostonian
Love the festive trousers! (My brother had a go-to-hell car when he was younger but, curiously, it didn’t give off that same festive vibe . . . .)
ReplyDeleteSubtle changes.
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