IMO the most of the various things sold as ‘trews’ today should not be called those. Historicity aside, I think in order to really be *trews* and not just tart any trousers, they need to have —a high waistline. —be tartan. —no outside seams —no cuffs at the bottom. The fishtail back just makes them more comfortable to be worn with braces which is certainly the more suitable for formality. However, I understand how in warm weather you might like to wear them as regular trousers without a jacket and would rather wear a belt than braces.
“The convents which the fathers had destroyed...the sons, rebuilt…”
—Hereward the Wake, ‘Of the Fens’
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