Vintage Stan Ray Four-Pocket Fatigue Trousers, Military Green - Made in USA - W28"

Measured flat, in inches: waist 28, hips 40, rise 11.5, inseam 26.

Condition: great.

These are fatigues, not cargos - four pockets and nothing on the thigh. The two get used interchangeably and they are not the same trouser; the fatigue is the older and plainer shape.

Note the rise. Eleven and a half inches is high - these sit at the natural waist, not under it, which is how fatigue trousers were cut.

Stan Ray is a real place with real people in it. Earl Beard and his wife Billie Jean started the company in 1972 in Crockett, Texas, a town set between Houston and Dallas, and named it after their first son. Earl held to two rules: make it durable, and make it here - not out of patriotism but because he wanted to stand over the quality himself. Painter pants and fatigue trousers, sold to tradespeople across Texas.

Then they went to Japan. Earl's OG-107 fatigues filtered into surplus stores, and from there into the hands of Japanese collectors combing postwar America for exactly this kind of thing. The trousers became cult objects in Tokyo and the orders started arriving direct from shops like Beams. Fifty years on they are still cut in the same Crockett factory, still run by Earl's family.

1972 is the floor. The label gives the maker and the country and not another word.

Modern size: 28 x 26 (waist x inseam, in inches).

One of one. Sold as found.

No returns - as is.