{"id":8722,"date":"2020-07-17T23:15:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T23:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/?p=8722"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:24:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:24:47","slug":"richard-walkers-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/richard-walkers-pants\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Walker’s Pants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A mint in package example of Richard Walker pants. The buyer graciously sent in more pictures (see bottom of post).

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Richard Walker is mentioned in the Wild Company<\/em> book (pg. 106) as an American working in London as a buyer who helped connect the Zieglers with Mr. Brady for the Traveling Bag, among others. When they ran into difficulties with fussy English factories he sent them to Italy for designing their leather and linen bags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pants he inspired, WW2 US Army issues, debuted in Spring 1986 and remained through Spring 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One day in London, our expatriate friend Richard Walker pulled out a pair of pants that had been issued to him as an Army recruit, 25 years earlier. \u201cThe best-fitting, sturdiest pants I ever owned,\u201d he announced.  \u201cThey don\u2019t make \u2018em like this anymore!\u201d They were classic chinos, vintage 1945-button fly, no pleats, rugged twill. At Fort Carson, Colorado, Richard had surreptitiously procured pair after stylishly baggy pair for civilian friends, and couldn\u2019t part with his own, despite his relentlessly expanding waistline. Moved by his plight, we had no choice but to replicate the pattern and fabric, and dedicate the pants to Richard Walker, who by now owns a lifetime supply. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spring 1987
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Summer 1987. This second illustration of Richard Walker’s Pants does a better job of showing the drape of the baggy legs. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Richard Walker is mentioned in the Wild Company book (pg. 106) as an American working in London as a buyer who helped connect the Zieglers with Mr. Brady for the Traveling Bag, among others. When they ran into difficulties with fussy English factories he sent them to Italy for designing their leather and linen bags. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1423,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8722"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8749,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8722\/revisions\/8749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}