Black Techwear Cargo Pants 'Kageboshi'

Black techwear cargo pants with four flap pockets, straps and rings, in a crisp weave

Black on black, with rings. These cargo joggers carry two flap pockets on each thigh, stacked, with straps hanging from them and a metal ring on each, a small woven badge at the hip, a drawstring waist and a ribbed cuff at the ankle, all in a crisp black weave with a slight sheen. The rings are the detail: they catch the light when nothing else on the trousers does.

It is the darkest of the techwear pairs and the one with the most metal, and it is the pair for the night the reflective ones are for the road.

The name, Kageboshi, is the shadow, the silhouette, and the trousers are one with rings on it.

The cut is a jogger: a soft waistband with a drawstring, room through the thigh, a taper to the knee and a ribbed cuff at the ankle that sits on the trainer. It is the shape Tokyo wears to the convenience store and to the club, and it does both. The cloth is a light woven polyester-cotton blend with a crisp hand and a slight gloss, chosen because a street trouser must take a crease without keeping it, wash without shrinking and weigh nothing on a hot day, and a blend does all three. The rings are metal, the straps are webbing, and the badge is woven.

Wear them with a white tee and white trainers, as in the photograph, which is the outfit every pair in this collection was photographed in and the one they are all best in. A black tee in the evening, a haori or a sukajan over the top when it turns, and nothing else with a pattern below the waist.

They wash cold, inside out, and dry on a line; the cloth does not crease into a map and does not need an iron, which is the point of a trouser cut for a street rather than an office.

From across a street they are black joggers. From close the pockets show their flaps and straps, the rings their metal, the badge its weave, and the cuff its rib. They are the pair for a black jacket and a night that goes late.

The pockets are the working part: slash pockets at the hip deep enough for a phone, and a back pocket, so the trousers carry a day without a bag. The waist sits where you tie it and does not dig, and the seat has room to sit on a step.

Sizes run from S to XXL. It is cut to Asian sizing and runs small, so take one size up from your usual. Between two sizes, take the larger.