ROSEMARY | Relaxed linen pants

I ordered the 4XL expecting the usual: wider, but cut like a tent. They are actually shaped.

Above a certain size the choices narrow to two, and neither is good. Either everything clings, or everything is cut as a rectangle and hangs off you. Linen is usually where that gets worse, because most linen trousers are sold in three sizes and a hope.

These run from M to 4XL in the same relaxed cut, so the shape does not change as the size goes up. The linen is soft rather than stiff, it breathes in real heat, and it falls from the hip instead of pressing against the leg. Five colors: black, white, olive, pink and orange.

Why women our age keep coming back to them

• The size range goes where the cut still works. M through 4XL, one shape, so a 4XL is a bigger version of the same trouser rather than a different garment.
• Linen that actually behaves. Soft and breathable in July, and loose enough that it never sticks to the back of the leg.
• Relaxed, not shapeless. The fabric drapes down from the hip, which keeps a line instead of a rectangle.
• Color beyond the safe ones. Black and white if you want them, olive, pink and orange if you are tired of both.

Buy more, save more

• Buy 2, save 10%
• Buy 3, save 15%
• Buy 4, save 20%

The discount is applied automatically at checkout.

How they fit

Relaxed through the hip and leg, in M through 4XL. Take your usual size; the cut already has the ease built in. If you are between two sizes, go up, because linen softens rather than stretches and the larger size is the one that keeps the drape. The flat measurements in inches are in the size chart.

30 days to change your mind

If they are not right, send them back within 30 days for a full refund. No restocking fee and no explanation needed.

A few recent reviews

I wore these through a week in Tucson in August. Nothing else in my closet would have managed it.
Dorothea P., Tucson

The olive is a proper olive, not the washed out green you usually get in photographs.
Alma R., Naples

They crease, because linen creases. They also look good creased, which is the part I did not expect.
Roseanne G., Savannah