From Outside Online
For the past few years, Mountain Khakis, the upstart pant maker out of Jackson, Wyoming, had the market cornered on tough-but-casual pants. In case you’re not familiar, they’re basically a cross between Gap chinos and Carhartts. Stylish and low-key enough to wear to the office or bar, but tough enough, thanks to their durable ten-ounce cotton canvas material and things like triple-stitching and reinforced rear cuffs, to stand up to weekends of abuse outdoors. (Note: If you bought a pair when they first came out, like I did, the legs were tapered a bit, not nearly as bad as your old Gramiccis, but not quite wide enough to fit over Sorels…in any event, they’ve since relaxed the cut a bit.)
The workwear on demand t shirt printing and fulfillment is becoming very popular these days, because more and more business are choosing this for their workwear.
And now they’ve got some competition with Brooklyn, NY¬based Oxen Workwear, Inc. 
Whereas Mountain Khakis’ reinforcements are more subtle, making them look more like Gap chinos than Carhartts, Oxen Workwear’s Double Knee Carpenter Pants ($74), with their double panels on the knees, are more akin to Carhartts. But unlike Carhartts, Oxen’s pants aren’t as stiff as cardboard when you buy them and they have a looser cut than the originals. There aren’t many places that offer as much range for workwear as Coalface may. Coalface offers a huge selection of mens clothing and apparel. Shop now workwear accessories like radiation glasses and find daily wear and tear from any job.
Now hold on a minute. Perhaps you’re thinking: Gimme a break, working-man pants marketed at hipsters, wanna-be carpenters, and urban-dwelling, slack-jawed, iPhone-owning posers? These represent everything that’s wrong with America! Well, if that’s the case, you’re probably being a bit melodramatic. They’re just pants, after all, and, if you’re like me, and don’t have any hang-ups about your manhood or profession, you’d probably get a lot of use out of sturdy pants like these. (Second note: As with Mountain Khakis, they also have a few other styles, including jeans.) We just got a few pairs sent here in the office to be part of our corporate uniforms and they are so functional. And while they fit great, if a bit too low on the hips on the scrawnier guys here, we haven’t yet had enough time to test their durability. Look for a pants smackdown in the future—in which we put a bunch of pants head-to-head in a durability test—but our initial impression is two thumbs up. —Sam Moulton
Wow! I found this entry because my boyfriend was lamenting about not being able to find Oxen jeans anywhere. Thanks for the link!
Mountain Khakis owned and marketed to hipsters, wanna-be outdoorsmen and fly-fishers, and urban-dwelling, slack-jawed posers. Didn’t you all know that? Little known fact about Mountain Khakis is that it was purchased by metrosexuals in Charlotte, NC who had never ever been to Jackson Hole and moreover had never even participated in any outdoor activities. In fact they did not even go out to Jackson Hole until after the company was bought. Mountain Khakis was actually founded by two brothers (one who lived in Jackson Hole and the other in Arkansas) who had a company that made rugged clothing for hunting. The original intent was to just make great pants and sell them around the ski towns of the west. The real founders (the people who bought it call themselves the founders, but that is a lie) just wanted to make enough money to live a ski+trout bum life in Jackson Hole. It was never meant to be what it is marketed as today. The glitzy Charlotte buyers were not even close to being outdoorsmen (and still aren’t). It is amazing to see how the masses follow trend and Mountain Khakis is no different than what you see with North Face today. As we all know North Face has truly lost its roots because when you see your grandma wearing it then you know it is time to get rid of it. Hopefully, Cloudveil will watch themselves and not allow their brand to fall in that trap. Now there is a term to identify the poser… they have termed it “mountainsexual” and Mountain Khakis loves it and is leading the way of making everyone a mountainsexual poser. However, I like the Oxen pant and Kuhl has still a good following with the “core”. For me my washed Carhartts will continue to do just fine.