For decades, suit pants adhered to a rigid and often uncomfortable dress code. It was a uniform designed to make men invisible. But something shifted. The fabric is smarter. The cuts are honest. And suddenly, a pair of pants can be both formal and actually wearable in the real world.
What Express has done across this lineup is simple: they’ve stopped forcing men to choose between looking sharp and feeling at ease. These styles are the future of what workwear becomes when it finally listens to who’s wearing it. Below, five pants that prove the dress code doesn’t have to be a sentence.
The Baggy Stretch Dress Pant
This is what happens when formality stops policing the room. Baggy through the thigh and sitting high on the waist, this stretch dress pant has an 18.5-inch leg opening that says you’re done with the traditional script.
Polyester and rayon combine with spandex, for the type of pants that don’t care if you wear them to a gallery opening or a midnight run to the corner store. This pant stops pretending that control equals elegance and proves the opposite instead.
The Washable Modern Tech Suit Pant
The washable suit pant is no longer an oxymoron. Express just figured out what office workers have been too embarrassed to admit: you want trousers that actually survive a Tuesday.
Express’ slim blue version sits in that sweet spot where professional style meets the demands of real life. A wool-polyester-spandex blend shakes off wrinkles the way a Rolling Stone interview sidesteps tough questions.
Lean through the thigh, with a restrained 15-inch leg opening, there’s something quietly revolutionary about formal wear that asks nothing except to be washed.
Relaxed Stretch Suit Pants
This is the pant for men who’ve earned the right to breathe. Relaxed through the thigh, high-waisted in the way your father wore it, polyester and rayon stretch in all the forgiving places.
Hook and bar, zip fly, slant pockets, buttoned back welt pockets. It’s grey, which means it works with half your closet. Worn with a white shirt it’s banker-casual. Worn with something more casual, it leans into Saturday.
The Comfort Waist Everyday Performance Pant
Express’ comfort waist says the word casual and means it, even when you’re wearing black.
Here is a pant that understands the deal: slim through the thigh, a hidden zip pocket for the things you actually keep, with polyester and spandex that breathes.
The comfort waistband is moisture-wicking, which means it doesn’t care if you’re in a conference room or walking to your car. Available in ten colors, each one unremarkable enough to be exactly right.
The Khaki Stretch Suit Pant
Khaki is still the most trustworthy color a man can own. Express’ slim khaki style sits somewhere between a neutral and a philosophy. Polyester, rayon, and spandex work together to give you movement.
Slim through the thigh, the details feel almost quaint in their formality: slant pockets, buttoned back welt pockets. Pair them with anything from a crisp white dress shirt to something with actual pattern, and it slides into the background where it belongs. That’s the whole point of khaki. It works because no one’s thinking about it.
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