From South Ken to Shoreditch, from Jermyn Street to Mare Street – these days anyone that’s anyone is wearing red trousers.

If you want your leg-coverings to let the world know that you’ve got a few quid and don’t care who knows it, or that you have some big ideas about what’s on at the ICA right now - or simply that you are completely insane (but in a mainly non-stabby way) - then you’d better get your wife or girlfriend to take those jeans and chinos down to the charity shop post-haste!

Because there’s only one type of trousers you’ll be wanting to wear, and that’s RED TROUSERS. In fact - if you can’t wear red trousers you’d be better off wearing NO TROUSERS AT ALL. That’s what I say.

Tuesday, 20 November 2012

Great Dixter gardens, East Sussex






















Many thanks to Mike for this one, who snapped this gentleman farmer shouting into his mobile phone.


Newbury races


The guy on the left looks a lot like Steve. They get about these fellows, don't they? 

Royal Cinque Ports Halford Hewitt Cup


Golf. What's wrong with just being called Nigel and driving a Ford Mondeo like every other golfer in England?








Thom Yorke


RAC races

Forget Oxford and Cambridge, or anywhere else for that matter: students of the Royal Agricultural College seem to be the ruddiest trousered collection of people in the country by a mile.

MCC

The matching bag earns him a "lunatic" tag...

Monday, 12 November 2012

C'nt Garden

















You don't have to be posh to do the blue/red thing it seems.

Full marks to the sender, Tim, for bravery here.


Hipsters on the beach






















Stop me if you've heard it...

Q: Why did the hipster burn himself on his pizza?

A: He ate it before it was cool.

There ain't no party like a South Ken party!






















That looks a lot like a bottle of fizz and TWO pipes of Pringles to me.

And I don't think those are his everyday trousers. Oh no. I think those are his PARTAAY TROUSAAZ!

More churchwear


































Another old-school posho with a good-looking wife at his child's Christening. (See here for the other one.)


Caught red-handed





















Many thanks to Leigh for this one. Apparently getting his mate to stand in the shot wasn't an entirely successful ruse. Said the red-trousered man on finishing his call (who we can only assume has grown six inches since he bought this pair) "I hope you got a good one, you cunt!" Good enough matey, good enough.



Saturday, 10 November 2012

Thank you again!

Many thanks for your photos and comments. Sorry if you've not had a reply. I've been AWOL again briefly, but LAMFRT is now back with a vengeance!

Particular apologies to anyone who over the last couple of months has sent in one of those emails along the lines of, "My mate/girlfriend/daughter sent in a picture of me looking like a first-class tosser, and while I can just about see the funny side (no really, ahahahaha) please please please please please take it down". I haven't read your message yet, but I will do very soon. (I'll probably ignore it obviously, but still).

Also, if you find yourself chasing your quarry around a shopping centre or similar and the pictures keep coming out blurry, a video might be worth a try...

Wedding gatecrasher






















Now we've had RTs at a wedding before of course (see here), but I'm told this bloke was definitely not invited. Judging by his trousers (and, let's be honest, facial hair) I'm prepared to believe it.

More youngsters






















She: "How was your journey down?"

He: "It was atchy rally rally boring."




RT Youth, at a point to point meeting


"I'm terribly sorry...






















...but would you mind if I had a quick slash all over your legs?"


More beachwear




































Farlows























According to its website, this Pall Mall fly-fishing shop has been "supplying the country connoisseur since 1840" (or rather, "Supplying the Country Connoisseur Since 1840  "). It looks like the man in the green jumper has been refused admission and is threatening to stand there all day being annoying.










Red trousers, blue car















This is a bit of a Full Monty - you can just make out a fat cigar clamped between his teeth...

When in Rome...






















...do not ride a segway while wearing red trousers. You  will look doubly ridiculous.

Sunday, 19 August 2012

Drinking trousers
































Thank you to Simon H for this one. I haven't been told precisely what happened next, but I think we can make an educated guess.

Sir George Young Bt MP


Boycie from Only Fools and Horses!

































Many thanks to Mary for this one - who assures me this really is the actor John Challis. (A quick google image search confirms this.)


Bristol Chopper


Amsterdam cravat man



































The book is Spaanse Vrouwen, Bewolkte Luchten (Spanish Women, Cloudy Skies) by Martin Gaite, in case anyone was wondering.


Battersea Park (South Chelsea)


Another wine guy


Sunday, 12 August 2012

Croquet

Apparently the multicoloured deck shoes are monogrammed.

Red-trousered punt
















(...you see, it's only one letter different from "red-trousered cunt")


The King of Sweden

An actual King! You don't get posher than that.

Talking of royalty, surely Princes William and Harry like to get the RTs out from time to time? Please everyone keep their cameras at the ready...

"Wouldn't go in there for a bit if I were you..."


Andy Goode

Andy Goode (on the right) is a professional rugby player. This was taken at Cheltenham where (see below) RTs are very much the thing.

Fraudster

Owen Danter is a former Tory activist, currently serving a 21 month prison sentence for stealing more than £100K from old ladies while working as a bank manager.

You'd never think it to look at him.

Saturday, 11 August 2012

Primark!























Either the upper tiers are finally feeling the squeeze, or the plebs are developing a taste for red trousers.

Or this bloke simply took a wrong turn on Oxford Street.

Or perhaps he's one of those junkies who dresses up all posh to go thieving? Who knows.

Cheltenham Festival (of red trousers)

Many many thanks to Matt for this wonderful collection of RTs at this year's Cheltenham Festival.


An Actual Prince

Well, a German Prince. But still.

(If you know this trio, please confirm or deny)

Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Bosham






















Chelsea Waitrose

Nice purple/red his-n-hers Battenberg cake effect. Even the wines on the top shelf are playing along.

Tall Skinny (Cappu)chinos!


Surbiton





















See, this guy is definitely not posh: shaved bald head, ghoti beard, button cuffs, weird little silver bits on his shoes... no, no, no: definitely not posh. But he's no sort of hipster either. Nor, to be fair, does he look like a lunatic. So why is he wearing RTs? Because, ladies and gentlemen, he's "kind of a big deal".

Jasper Jones

















Jasper is the landowner from the children's TV programme "Little Red Tractor". His is the Big Blue tractor we can see in the background there - which, one can safely assume, gets bested in each episode by the eponymous little red tractor owned by someone who doesn't wear red trousers and isn't described by Wikipedia as "materialistic and smug". Isn't kids TV great?

(Thank you to Andy S. for this spot.)

Notting hill gate
















Not spectacular of course, but the white shoes are something. A beautiful and haunting sort of picture. What does his face look like? Does he even have a face? We'll never know.







WKD RT

Isn't that what chavs drink?

Stairs RT















Perhaps it was deliberate, but I've never seen anyone dressed like a staircase before, so I thought I'd post it.