Silver Grey Sharkskin Suit Trousers

Silver grey trousers in a sharkskin weave, cut with a tailored leg and left free of any detail that would date them.

Understated elegance is a fair description of the effect: the weave gives the cloth a quiet surface interest that a flat grey would not have, and the tailored line keeps the leg clean from the waist down. Nothing about them draws the eye deliberately, which is precisely why they work under so many different jackets.

Corporate wear is where they will spend most of their life, and they are equally at home in formal and occasion dressing, which is a wider range than most grey trousers cover. The light tone makes them a useful counterweight to a darker jacket, and it makes them an easy match for a suit of the same cloth. Keep the shoe dark to anchor the pale leg, and keep whatever goes above them plain.