The button you undo after Sunday dinner was never about you. It was always the waistband.

Start with the fabric, because your hand will. The Clark is corduroy, with the signature ribbed texture: wide ribs you can see at a glance and feel under your palm when your hand rests on your knee. Look at the Purple pair on the bed, seen from the back. Two back pockets, a small label on one of them, and those ribs running down the leg. Corduroy has been a fall and cool-weather classic for generations, and it has character without making noise about it. If you worry that comfortable pants look flat and tired, this is the answer. The texture does the work. Nothing about it apologizes.

Here is the fair worry: an elastic waist sounds like sweatpants, and that is not what you want to be wearing when company is coming. So look at the man in the photograph, standing in the Light Green pair with a white T-shirt and white sneakers, hands in his pockets. What you see is a straight cut and a refined, structured look with nothing sloppy in it. The elastic is hidden, so it does its work without announcing itself. He is not dressed up and he is not dressed down. He is simply dressed. These are pants you answer the door in, sit down to dinner in, and stay in afterward.

This is the heart of it. The Clark has a hidden elastic waist with a drawcord, so the waist gives and you decide how snug it sits, before dinner and after. For size, go by the inches on the Size Chart, not the letter on the tag. Waists run from 28 for the S to 40.9 for the 4XL, every one elastic. A Medium measures 29.9 at the waist and 40.9 long; a 2XL, 36.2 and 43.3. Lay a pair you own flat, measure, and compare. Between two sizes, take the larger and let the drawcord do the rest. If we are both wrong, reach out within 30 days for an easy return or exchange.

The real test of a pair of pants is not the mirror. It is the car seat, the bottom shelf, the porch steps, the long sit after supper. The Clark is cut relaxed and roomy through the legs, with a straight cut and the freedom of movement an ordinary day asks for: in and out of the truck, and down on one knee to look under the sink. Look at the man in the photograph, walking in the Purple pair with one hand in his pocket. That is the ease we mean. The best thing a pair of pants can do is let you forget about them. That is what the room is for.

Men's pants are usually sold in a handful of safe colors: navy, khaki, black. Safe is fine. But at some point safe turned into a rule, and nobody remembers agreeing to it. The Clark comes in eleven: Gray, Blue, Khaki, Light Blue, Light Green, White, Black, Green, Brown, Purple and Pink. If you want the Khaki or the Black, they are here. But look at the Purple pair laid flat on the table, with a Blue and a Light Green folded behind it, and be honest about which one your eye went to first. That is the one. Pick the color you were never offered at the store. It costs the same as the Gray.

Ordering pants from a screen takes some trust. You cannot feel the corduroy from here, and you have been let down by a waistband before. So here is exactly what happens. Shipping is free with UPS anywhere in the USA, and we send a tracking number when your package ships. When the package arrives, run your thumb across the ribs, pull the pants on and tie the drawcord. Sit down at your own table. If they are not right, reach out within 30 days for an easy return or exchange and a full refund; a few exemptions apply. You are not deciding today whether to keep them. You are only deciding whether to try them.

A man should not need one pair for his comfort and another for his company. If pants cannot sit down to dinner with you, it is the pants that failed.

We will be plain about the money, because you would be. The listed regular price of the Clark is $166.50. During our Anniversary Sale it is $49.95, which is 70% off, and that one price covers every size from S to 4XL and all eleven colors. The 4XL costs what the Small costs. For more than one pair, the checkout takes off more on its own, with no code: an extra 10% on two, 15% on three, 20% on four, 25% on five. Order the Brown, the Green and the Gray together and each pair costs you less than one pair ordered alone. Once you find pants you can sit down in, one pair may not feel like enough.

Now the honest part. $49.95 is the Anniversary Sale price, not the regular one, and we cannot promise it to you past the sale. We will not dress that up or put a date on it to hurry you. But fall is corduroy season, and it is already here. Every week you spend in pants you merely put up with is a week of it you will not get back. If that waistband has bothered you for years, the time to do something about it is while the price is this one.