Where to Buy 'The Bear' Thom Browne Pants Jeremy Allen White Mentions in Season 2

Around the halfway mark in Episode Five of The Bear's second season, Carmy sits in the car with Claire, an old flame rekindled thanks to a trip to the gas station and a long drive together. They start to have the classic "why did we never talk more" conversation, you know, the one you had

Around the halfway mark in Episode Five of The Bear's second season, Carmy sits in the car with Claire, an old flame rekindled thanks to a trip to the gas station and a long drive together. They start to have the classic "why did we never talk more" conversation, you know, the one you had last Thanksgiving Eve with a high school acquaintance. It's sweet.

Before they got to the "I like you" of it all, though, Claire brought up a memory that tugged at my sartorial curiosity. Here's the exchange.

Claire: I also remembered that I sat behind you in Algebra freshman year. Carmy: Did you really?Claire: Yeah, and you were always drawing something. I would try to guess what you were drawing. Carmy: Um, yeah, pantsClaire: Really short pants! Carmy: Very, very short pants. Yeah. No, I had this idea for like, like Dickies but cuffed, made with worsted wool. Uh, Very....high level. Yeah. Claire: Well they were really high level drawings. Carmy: Yeah, I um, I just didn't realize at the time that somebody had been making those pants, very well, for a very long time, at a very high...high level. Claire: Dream killed. Carmy: Yeah but then the guy, who made, them, he actually started coming into one of my restaurants, and he was really great. And then, I don't know, I felt like I wanted to start drawing again.

Obviously I had to know exactly what pants Carmy—or, really, The Bear creator Chris Storer—had in mind here. Luckily, Storer is a Friend of the Brand and was able to confirm our suspicions that he was referencing all-time great American designer Thom Browne.

Thom Browne Wool Pique Suiting Single-Pleat Trouser

Wool Pique Suiting Single-Pleat Trouser

“Lots of the people we’ve gotten to know in restaurants dress really well. Matty in particular has really great taste, and you can see that translated into his restaurant whether it’s in the linens or the leathers booths or the woods," Storer told us over text. "We’re lending some of that to Carmy, who is definitely fashionably aware. I also really love Dickies trousers that fit a little short on the leg. I always wanted a wool pair and couldn’t find find them, then I discovered a pair of trousers Thom Browne made that were really stunning”

Thom Browne. Of course. What other iconic-cropped-and-cuffed-wool-trouser-making, Michelin-star-taste-level designer could Carmy have been talking about? This isn't The Bear's first foray into the menswear zeitgeist. Season one sparked an obsession with Carmy's plain t-shirt. Unlike that signature tee, these trousers aren't a garment you actually get to see on the show. But if you're here for an easy-to-pull off, steal-the-style moment from The Bear, look no further than Chef Marcus's dedication to the beanie.

And as far as Storer goes? You can get more insight into his passion for clothing in the latest iteration of our Five Fits series.

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