All the pants Liza tried on
All the pants Michael tried on
I first encountered Buck Mason in 2016, a few years after the brand launched, during a meeting with the founders to check out their new collection in a room at the Ace Hotel. I was a menswear writer at GQ back then, and Buck Mason was a plucky men’s clothing brand making T-shirts and jeans out of a garage in Venice, California.
Since then, Buck Mason has transformed into a brand known just as much for its limited color palette of easygoing vintage-inspired menswear as it is for its women’s slub T-shirts, our perennial favorite; cropped half-zip sweatshirts; and quietly sexy dresses and skirts. It also makes a growing slate of excellent pants for men and women. I still wear a pair of the first women’s jeans Buck Mason made, the Rider, as well as the first jean shorts, also called the Rider, which are loose and beachy (but no longer available). But those two pairs are a fraction of the brand’s current offering, which is now a range of loungewear, very legit denim, tailoring, and linen pull-on pants. I’ve been curious about this evolution and what it might mean for my wardrobe for a long time. So along with fellow Strategist senior writer (and fellow fan of the brand) Michael Zhao, I visited the recently opened women’s flagship in Soho to try on as many pairs of pants as we could in a few hours.
