Hebden Bridge Trouser Company

We had great fun meeting you, showing off our trousers, playing records and drinking free beer.

A Hoes Down.

It’s good to know the measurements are as per the guide. I’ve never had a pair of 38″ trousers before, been in 36″ for years. Strange how all the 36″-labelled trousers measure up as 38″. Fellow trouser wearers, we’ve been duped.

Fellow trouser wearers, we’ve been duped.

Theres an aspect of ‘vanity sizing’ in the industry, but also, unless you’re Simon Cowel the waist band of your trousers doesn’t actually go round your waist. So on most garments its really an ‘effective’ waist size in the same way as a bike frame would have an ‘effective’ top tube.

Just to add my two-penneth,I am 6’4″ with a 33″ waist and sorry Cougar, but I do have a 36″ inside leg. Well 35 1/2″ really but its near enough. And I am no Magic Johnson with a basketball more’s the pity.
My problem being the wonderfully weird shape my parents made me is that very few trousers I try on actually fit. Nothing in Next has a long enough leg, nor M & S and most of the other high street shops. Now I love the idea of selling them unhemmed, I think all of us know someone who can do hem them to the right length or we could have a hack at it ourselves (it can’t be harder than setting up a front derailleur properly, can it?) but while I’d love a pair of good moleskins, the price is just a bit on the high side for me.

I do hope your venture turns out well though, Ed and Brant, we need more innovation of this type.

very few trousers I try on actually fit

As a lanky top tip – Snickers (the workwear people not the chocolate bar) make most of their their stuff in 5 leg lengths, the longest being 37″. A lot of their stuff is properly workwear in terms of holster pockets and knee pads etc. But they make a ‘Service Chino’ which is plainer / casualler (all be it in quite a robust workwear fabric) and is part of that sizing system (their jeans aren’t) – anything of theirs with the size code ‘248’ is 33″ waist, 37″ leg (and a 148 is 33″/35″) and they’re about £30

I’ve decided to get a pair of nice tight shorts made from the off-cuts once mine have been shortened. 🙂

Many thanks Ed and Brant.

Are you the chap that requested number 14?

I am – can I also have ‘troublemaker’ sewn in to the turn ups 😳

<awaiting “great strides in production” update>

Trousers. The debagging.

Hebtroco Founder No.6

The bastards stuffed a load of Yorkshire tea bags in the pockets. Urrghhhh. I think there’s a stray northerner somewhere round these parts I can pass them on to.

Mighty, mighty fine moleskin. I reckon these are chainsaw safe.

Enough drop in the gusset that my ballbag doesnt rub. A key concern.

I see what they mean by “slim fit” now. It doesn’t mean: “crowbar me in, cut me out”, it means there’s not acres of spare cloth flapping about everywhere. Yet I can squat or touch* my toes and blood supply remains unaffected.

*I’ve never been able to touch my toes, but I can make a fist of it with grunting noises

I think there’s an anti-change-falling-down-by-the-handbrake-flap in the left hand pocket. Sinisterly* there isn’t one in the right hand pocket.

*bdum tish

I’m going to like these I think.

Full hipster points for the cover letter as well 🙂
courier/typewriter/typos/etc

Got mine from the pub last weekend. Comfort was soon following.

I am the coveted #69

I am the coveted #69

skillz

Bloody tight though!!!!

Bloody tight though!!!!

this post is useless without a gusset photo.

you could add to your wardrobe with some selvage denim or a flasher mac from here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/267973823/community-clothing-make-clothes-create-jobs-restor?ref=project_tweet

Apparently an “unable to deliver” note was left at home today. Getting excited.

Best calm down first, or you’ll never get them on.

Hebtroco Founder No.6

Who is number 1?

Thanks for the link MrSmith, will look at that more closely later
😀

Who is number 1?

*waves*

I am not a number, I am a HebTroCo trouserless man!

Thanks for the post Stoner. Me and Oxley were in Oldgate after, and before hand delivering some around town.
We are about 75% through shipment right now.

Great to see them out there with the awesome founders who helped us start this thing up again.

Mine are at the post office AND I CAN’T GET THERE UNTIL FRIDAY!

Weirdly I really want to know what number I am.

Weirdly I really want to know what number I am.

97

My mother’s favourite number!*

*a lie.

WOW. OK, founder so invested in them being good, but lordy you need these trousers in your life! as Stoner says hey’re just right around your legs, and are properly sized so take care on the sizing when you order. great weight, great cut, and it’s true, random girls will stroke your legs

😳

78

must not buy more clothes

off to find my tape measure….

Is there going to be a second wave, after I missed the first?

Mine are having to journey to Hong Kong. I fear the excitement will have died down by the time they arrive, and no-one will want to see my gusset.

🙁

Is there going to be a second wave, after I missed the first?

You can buy them online now.

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Mine are having to journey to Hong Kong. I fear the excitement will have died down by the time they arrive, and no-one will want to see my gusset.

I think they left yesterday. Thanks for your support.

(Oh. Support. That wasn’t a gusset joke)

partyboy1101 – Member
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As HTS says, we have a stock model that is nearing shipping. It’s exactly the same trouser, but without the huge logistical headache of sequential numbering. It’s called The 177.

Great to see the trousers starting to arrive. Thanks for sharing guys

Hurry up postie……

wwaswas – Member

Who is number 1?

*waves*[/quote]

I was actually hoping the new No.2 would declare themselves but at least

nbt – Member
I am not a number, I am a HebTroCo trouserless man!

satisfied my Prisoner requirements, thanks nbt

i got the reference, even if no-one else did

I currently have overly soft legs. This is most pleasing.

It’s a miracle I can stop stroking myself long enough to make it to work. Hebtroos stepping out in London town today.

#74 have arrived and mightly impressed with them – the fit is absolutely spot on, as others have mentioned they are incredibly soft and pleasing to the touch – i dunno if this will prove to be a good thing or not – time will tell 🙂

Got mine on now. They are very fabulous. Think I’m going to have to get a pair of 177s in the other colour.

Fit is very much like my 501s but a little more tapered below the knee.

No. 81 has arrived at my house. Haven’t tried them on yet. Probably best to wait till all the local wimminz are asleep. 🙂