Shinbo Pants, Our Widest Harem Fit

Relaxed harem silhouette with a slightly cropped leg and elastic waist.

Most summer trousers give up somewhere between the train platform and the office. Shinbo is cut for the part of the year when you stop caring how something looks folded and start caring how it behaves at 30 degrees. The blend is 30% linen, no stretch, and it moves air rather than holding it.

It also runs deeper through the sizes than anything else here. The hip measures 116 cm at size M against 104 cm on Sokai, and the range keeps going to 131 cm at 5XL. You notice it sitting down, on the floor, on a bike, cross legged on a train seat. Nothing pulls across the seat because the rise drops the fabric below it instead.

The leg finishes slightly short of the ankle, so it sits above a low shoe without bunching. Wear it with something fitted on top or the whole outfit turns into fabric.

Sizing

Shinbo runs from S to 5XL, eight sizes, the deepest range in this collection. Go by the waist and hip figures in the chart rather than the size letter, because these are cut generously. The supplier table covers M upward, so size S has no measurements listed. If you are between two, the elastic and drawstring will cover the gap downward but not upward, so take the smaller one.

If you want the same silhouette with less volume, Sokai is the narrower cut in a heavier cloth. The full range sits in sarouel and harem pants.

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