Chinos - yes or no?

I like Chinos so I wear them. **** what your friends think.

I like wearing chinos (not the H&M/Topman type things that you'd find on the highstreet). As a guy, I think I dress pretty well but my friends say that I should be wearing jeans instead.

I wear jeans as well as chinos but they say that chinos aren't in fashion/aren't cool. Is that true?

The chino ****er tumbr is gold.

I think chinos have become a scapegoat. From that tumbler and life in general I know that it is not really the chino itself that people hate but rather the things they add on to it (straps, extra pockets, drop crotch, elastic ankles, stupid colours) the other items that they wear with it (buttoned-up-to-the-top checked shirt, vans, spiked hair, deep V jumper) and the fact that everybody is wearing the same damn thing with no originality. The chino itself is a great thing. The first serious alternative to jeans since the tracksuit bottom and a way to be more smart yet still stay casual. Unfortunately it has been murdered by high street fashion and the fact that most people don't know how to properly handle a smart casual item in their wardrobe. Chinos are smart casual not casual and should be accordingly worn with smart brown shoes and a tucked in shirt. And you iron the mother****er!

You say it's a " serious alternative to jeans" but then you say that it should be worn with a tucked in shirt and smart brown shoes. So you say that jeans should also only be worn with a tucked in shirt and smart brown shoes? bit of a contradiction there dude

Plenty people wear jeans with a tucked in shirt and brown shoes nowadays and you can do the exact same thing with chinos hence why it is an alternative.

what on earth does "not the H&M/Topman type things that you'd find on the highstreet" mean? Are Topman chinos a "fake" chino sort or something?

Oh I see. I consider it to be a complete alternative, wear it with vans, wear it with leather boots, whatever goes with jeans tends to go with chinos. They don't have to be smart casual.

I'd disagree with you and say that it is criminal because there are codes that have to be stuck to but these fashion codes change over time. Go back 50 years and the idea of wearing cowboy pants to work must have been unthinkable yet we do it now in the form of jeans. I do personally deep down think that chinos can actually be worn casually but only the blue variety. I'm sorry but khaki smart trousers with vans or boots and an ironic t-shirt just looks like an odd fad and even if you try and "de-smart" the chinos by changing the cut and adding straps or whatever then it just makes it worse. But that's just my personal opinion. If you can make it work then good for you but the problem is that most people can't hence why they should just stick to the code rather than following others blindly and ending up looking stupid.