Trousers

Designed in the Netherlands, from desk to dinner without a change of clothes.

Clean, considered trousers that carry a day from the office to the evening. The range runs from the relaxed everyday Essence Chino to the cleaner, more tailored TP 02 Essence, so you can pick the cut and the formality you want. Like everything we make, they are refined generation after generation: the same trouser, made better each time, down to the drape, the waistband and the finish. Designed in our Dutch studio and made in family-owned ateliers in Portugal, Turkey or China, chosen per piece for the best make.

When we ask customers why they bought, the answers are consistent: the fit and the quality. Across more than 500 verified reviews ETQ holds 4.6 out of 5, and the Essence trouser is one of our most repeat-purchased pieces, part of a community of more than 250,000 customers.

The range, by how you'll actually wear it

Essence Chino. The relaxed, everyday trouser, cotton-rich, our most-worn and best-stocked cut.

TP 02 Essence. A cleaner, more tailored trouser for dressed days, in our Traveller Weave.

Straight and slim cuts. Across the Essence line, so you can choose your leg.

How to wear them

An Essence trouser is a wardrobe hinge. Dress it up with a tailored polo or fine knit and a suede loafer for the office; dress it down with a heavyweight tee and clean sneakers. Layer an overshirt over the top as it cools. For a denim alternative, see our jeans.

Fabric and fit

We choose fabrics to last, and we're honest about them. Where it serves the trouser we favour natural cotton, usually with a little elastane for comfort and movement. In other pieces we engineer the cloth differently: the tailored Essence line is cut from our Traveller Weave, which blends in performance fibres, including polyester, for shape retention, a clean drape and low-maintenance, travel-ready wear that resists creasing. Different cloth for a different job, chosen for how the trouser is actually worn. Offered in straight and slim; most customers find them true to size.

Care

Care is listed by fabric on every product page. As a rule: machine wash cool, reshape and hang or lay flat to dry, and keep the iron low. The Traveller Weave resists creasing, so it needs little pressing, while cotton-rich chinos take a light press if you want a sharper line.

This is ETQ. Designed quietly. Worn for years. See chinos, jeans and shorts, or the full menswear collection.