September is here. Your sweaters are back in rotation, your jackets are ready and waiting, and you once again find yourself confronting a surprisingly complicated question: How the hell are your pants supposed to fit right now?
The short answer? Pretend it’s the 1990s.
Today’s best-looking pants might also be the most straightforward. And no decade did stylish, no-frills fashion quite like the ’90s. Earlier this year, when I spoke with various menswear insiders about the state of pants,…

